"To Kill a Mockingbird"

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This paper examines how Harper Lee's compelling story about Atticus Finch and his efforts to see justice served at any cost provided Americans with much food for thought and helped fuel the civil rights movement that followed. It provides a summary of the book, "To Kill a Mockingbird", followed by an analysis of the fallacies of the racial issues in America during this period of history. A summary of the research is also provided in the conclusion.

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"The story is set in a small town full of "slow-moving people" in Alabama in the 1930s, and tells the story of a lawyer, Atticus Finch, who is Scout's father. Atticus is compelled to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, who has been falsely accused of raping a white woman during a period in American history when such an accusation was tantamount to a conviction. According to Alan Lenhoff, Scout is naturally curious, and although she has never seen her reclusive neighbor, Boo Radley, she desperately wants to. "Like most children, she is self-centered. Her world revolves around games and fights with Jem; fear of nasty old Mrs. Dubose; problems at school; a dramatic fire; the time a rabid dog threatens the neighborhood" (Lenhoff 2001:20). In her childhood innocence, though, Scout does not understand what all of the fuss is about when her father takes Robinson's case."

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