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The Characters Of Prejudice In A Mockingbird By Bob Ewell

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Both characters from both texts Tom Robinson and the accused kid is manipulated by both creators as a prime example of being prejudged as the victims. Being both colored and having different backgrounds, they were taken advantage of by both juries in addition to the ideology of white supremacy and racial segregation at that time as Juror 10 mentions "You can 't a believe…they 're born liars" and in the case of Emmett Till shows that accused was Caucasian and acquitted by an all-white jury meaning they wouldn 't give a fair trial to other than their own race in potentially any given situation. This shows that both Lee and Lumet uses the simplistic idea of using the defendants to portray as a prime example of prejudice happening in both texts. The corruption as well in the American Justice System as shown from Till 's murder also contributes to how prejudice is being displayed by both creators as they were all-white (maybe MAWM) and full of biases/prejudice. It 's not just the defendants that show the prejudice, bias and corruption going on the American Justice System but rather the people that make up of it too. Particularly the jurors from both texts and Bob Ewell in particular. The mentality of the them in particular is that "a fair trial is only for fair skin" which Bob Ewell benefited from despite being "poor white trash" and his family being "disgrace of Maycomb for three generations" and Tom Robinson was quite a respected member from the negro community and even

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