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Tom Robinson Politics

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In presenting Tom Robinson as a political individual, subject to the systematized and impersonal race bias of the South, Harper Lee goes beyond than telling a story against a political background. Lee explicitly makes politics an integral element of the movie. On the other hand, the physical and, especially, emotional wounds Stone has sustained in Vietnam will forever remind him of the disgraceful dehumanization he endured in the war, which he was extremely successful at eliciting on Platoon. Disturbing emotions such as fear, confusion, desperation and hate are conveyed. They depict the duality of man and the way in which a person’s emotions and attitudes can be swayed one way or the other through the horrors of war. War shapes and haunts the

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