To Kill A Mocking Bird 4
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Do You Think That Prejudice is a feature of life in Maycomb as seen in "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
The novel "To kill a mockingbird" was set in 1935, a period where prejudice and racism were encountered in everyday life. The small country town called Maycomb was very "old and private" and the people t ....
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.... with them. The Negroes were out casts of the town and were considered the lower class of Maycomb, even lower than the true trash of the white community, the Ewells. The Negroes were referred to as ‘niggers’, ‘trash’ among other dehumanizing names and they were stereotyped as violent, unclean and were unfit to blend with their community.
In Maycomb, Negroes were generally assumed guilty of any crime that a white man accuses them of because of the stereotypical ideas ....
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