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What Is The Relationship Between Good And Evil In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In the novel titled To Kill a Mockingbird the author Harper Lee tells us how racism was a big problem and how life was for a girl that was coming of age. This also relates back to the real world and all the racism that's going on today. To kill a Mockingbird takes place during the great depression in Maycomb, Alabama. The main character and narrator of this story is a little girl named Scout.She has a father named Atticus who teaches her a lot about respect and why things are the way that they are. She also has a brother, Jem, and a friend who moves into their city named, Dill. In the story one of the main events in the story is the trial of Tom Robinson Atticus chooses to defend Tom Atticus tries his hardest to create the best case he could with amazing points but evil wins and Tom is proven guilty and tom robinson is sent to jail. At the end, of the book we now understand that racism can cause people to not think logically, and ethically. …show more content…

One time when good beats evil is when Scout and Atticus turns the mob away from Tom. One time when evil won was when they found Tom guilty so he was sent to jail but was shot because he was forced to be locked up even though he was really innocent. The second theme is on how people affected what happened back then. Back then because of racism and segregation people didnt like a white man protecting a black man. One part was when people went to kill Tom but Atticus and Scout turned them away they wanted to kill him because he was black and they didn't want them to win the case. Other people to were not helping like the jury found Tom guilty just because of the color of his skin color. Another was when Mr. Eywell attacked the kids and then killed himself he was showing that many people hated Atticus because he defended a black

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