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Racial issues in to kill a mocking bird
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Harry Courtney 10C How does Harper Lee Explore the Issues Raised by Racial Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird? 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is set in the time of the economic depression, and highlights this as a time of racial prejudice. This prejudice comes from the white community who are most fearful of the black community and let this show through their prejudice. One line within this novel which clearly indicates the author's distaste for this prejudice is "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird," meaning that it is wrong to be prejudiced towards someone who has done nothing wrong. Yet this is something which happens many times in this story as it details how things were during the economic depression of the 1930s. The full extent of how bad racial prejudice is in the town of Maycomb is first outlined by the community's reaction to Atticus, when he decides to...
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