To kill a Mocking Bird could be considered a reliable and unexaggerated portrait of southern American's prejudice because the author Harper Lee based Maycomb the setting for the book and the character Atticus. On the real place and people. Monroeville and Harper Lee's farther who was a lawyer. Monroeville was also Harper Lee's hometown and this gave her reasons to know the socity as deeply ... as she does. The people of Monroeville and other places in the South America recognised themselves and the situation. Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, conta...

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Different groups of people exist: the contentious and the amiable. An example of a contentious group is the men that showed up at the jailhouse to kill Tom Robinson. "You know what we want, another man said. Get aside from the door, Mr. Finch"(151). Here the group of men asked Mr. Finch to get away from the door so they could get Tom Robinson. Another example is Jem doesn't want to leave the jailhouse, and a man harshly said he would send Jem home. "I"ll send him home," a burly man said, and grabbed Jem roughly by the collar. He yanked Jem nearly off his feet"(152). At this point the group of ...

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• Grade Level: High School