apos;s blacks weren't liked at all
especially in the South. Harper Lee used this setting to show us how much trouble could
be caused just because of the differences in the color of peoples skin.
Atticus defended a black man named Tom Robinson for the charges of
beating and raping a nineteen year old girl. When trail time came the whole town was in
the courtroom. Atticus had a lot of good points, and probally should have won the case
but since blacks were hated so much at the time, Atticus and Tom lost the case.
During the trail Atticus had made the plaintiffs father Bob Ewell look bad
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