... and hopefully more jobs. The colored families were met with passive aggressive racism in these towns, but were often given jobs, and the towns like Maycomb from To Kill a Mockingbird soon settled into an easy soft spoken racist mindset. This novel by Harper Lee covers and goes into depth about the ... and detrimental. Scout herself starts out as a young child who doesn't think much of colored folks, which is inadvertently forged by the racism of Maycomb inhabitants. As she gets older and wiser, she comes to the conclusion that the colored men are just like white men and that the world ...

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... to film in 1962 as a major motion picture starring Gregory Peck. Plot and Major Characters To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the small, rural town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the early 1930s. The character of Atticus Finch, Scout's father, was based on Lee's own father, a liberal Alabama lawyer and statesman who ... an African-American housekeeper who works for the family. Scout and Jem meet and befriend seven-year-old Dill Harris, a boy who has arrived in Maycomb to stay with his aunt for the summer. Lee has stated that the character of Dill is based on young Truman Capote, a well-known So...

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... to racial discrimination. This is emphasised in Mockingbird during the trial of Tom Robinson of which Atticus is the appointed lawyer. This political relationship is ridiculed by the residents of Maycomb County as they believe that Tom, being an African American, is not entitled to a fair trial. One resident states, "You know the court appointed him [Atticus] to defend this nigger ... ...

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