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To Kill A Mockingbird Good And Evil Analysis

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The Existence of Good and Evil
Have you ever wonder how good and evil can be portray in a way that it is inseparable? In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird ,the story was written by Harper Lee, it it about two white little kids, Jem and Scout Finch, learn to grow up in the 1930s during the Great Depression and the year when racism was more of a sensitive topic than it ever was, good and evil are now mixed together . They have to learn to understand those issues surround them and much more. With their father is a great and fair lawyer named Atticus they learn to cope with those issues at an early age. Good and evil are always going to overlap each other, and people have different ways to portray it. During the 1930s, racism was a hot topic, when black people were put on jury they were automatically be guilty and white people always have the upper hand. “Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret court of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed” (Lee 241). This is a perfect example of good and …show more content…

It is scary but it has changed the kids view on the town that they live in, Maycomb is not the paradise that they think it was.There were many problems with racism and judgement like the case with Tom Robinson and the impression of Boo Radley. There was no fairness for the black community in town, they way people portray good and evil were all mix up. As for the readers, they could take notice on racism at their country or town or city, they could actually re-think about the existence of good and evil were portray in their place and the respect and fairness for the black community. The readers could possibly define good and evil in a way that it will not cover each

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