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Stereotypes In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In a small county called Maycomb, in the 1950’s, racism is viewed as normal, but a white man defending a black man of his own accord is ridiculed regularly. Atticus is an interesting character in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. He is an excellent lawyer who is very humble and kind. In the story he is assigned an impossible case to win, defending a black man, Tom Robinson, from the accusation of raping a white female. He could deny the case but he wants to take it. This upsets some of the people in the county. One character, Mrs. Dubose, really doesn’t like the thought of it, “‘your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for!’” (Lee 135). In other words, the racists in Maycomb, which is most of the community, are furious at

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