Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"

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This essay analyzes Harper Lee's famous novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird", and its message about racism. The paper analyzes the main characters in the play, explaining that they symbolize aspects of racism, innocence and equality.

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"It is said that a seed needs only to be planted, before it inevitable grows. If the soil is more fertile, as was the heart of young Scout Finch, conscience is more easily instilled, as her father Atticus, would ultimately come to realize. With soil that is dry and barren, much like the town of Maycomb and its' racial convictions, it is impossible to predict whether any seed planted will take root. With regard to Maycomb, it wasn't lack of conscience that proved so tragic, it was the double-consciousness. This refers to the townspeople looking at themselves through the eyes of others. Image is everything, and as others saw you, so it was that you were. A "sheep mentality," with people thinking and acting in similar fashion, most notably when it came to interracial perception and interaction."

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