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How Is Atticus Inhumane In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Atticus is set to defend a black man by the name of Tom Robinson who is being committed of a crime he was not involved in. Atticus wonders if the roles of Mr. Ewell and Tom Robinson were reversed. He says to Mayella, “What did your father see in the window, the crime of rape or the best defense to it.” Atticus thinks that Mr. Ewell blamed Tom Robinson for the act of rape because no one would believe a black man. When Atticus asked this question to Mayella he wanted to know how her father seen the “crime”. Atticus wanted to know if her father seen the “crime of rape” or the “best defense to it”. This means that Atticus wants to know if he saw Tom Robinson forcing Mayella to have Interaction

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