... can only exacerbate the existing problem, and fighting is the only way out. Atticus Finch, in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird is a case in point. In the time of racial discrimination, a black young man, Tom Robinson, is accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Controlled by the racial stereotype, no lawyer would like to defend Tom and to be thought as ... behavior, and even his family objects to his decision. Still, Mr. Finch never compromises with the racial belief of the society, and says that confrontation is the only way to solve the problem. In the end, Mr. Finch does prove ...

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... the Pulitzer Prize the following year. Although published thirty-five years ago, the message of the novel remains relevant to today's readers; commenting truthfully and sensitively about prejudice, racism, and discrimination, and for this reason I consider it a valuable novel for study and discussion. Others, however, beg to differ. In order to understand the problems with school censorship, one must know why ... feels racism is bad is trying to show why. Whatever the case may be, banning books because they contain uncomfortable or offensive language is no way to solve social ills such ...

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... will win, doesn't mean he has to give up before trying. In the weeks before the trial, the Finch family had to endure huge amounts of discrimination because of the case. Atticus in specific, received discrimination from people such as Mrs. Dubose and his own sister. It even went as far as his own nephew, saying that he is "ruinin" the family ... even begin to describe the people who go through so much pain for a lost cause. The universal image of a hero is a young physically able man who uses his strength to solve problems. In to Kill a Mockingbird, the heroes come in many shapes and si...

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