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The novels Lazarus And The Hurricane and To Kill A Mockingbird are similar in many ways.
They both have a theme of racism and the author gave out what it was like for the black community in the past on having to go threw what they did everyday. In these novels, the characters and the society are alike however, unfortunately they have different endings.

Both of these novels have an innocent person who needs help proving that he's not guilty. Those people are Rubin Carter and Tom Robinson.
Rubin Carter is the innocent man in the novel Lazarus And The Hurricane. He was put in prison for being accused of killing two people in 1966 with his friend Artis. He has been in prison for around 18 years until he meet a young kid named Lazarus. He moved to Canada with some Canadians so he could get a better education. Together, they discovered 'Rubin Hurricane Carter' and they knew he was innocent. Rubin and the Canadians quickly became friends. They wanted to help him out and make him feel more like home in prison and buy him a TV. Rubin refused it.
'' “I don't belong here. This is not my home.” He said he never wanted any niceties, any amenities to distract him from fighting for the only thing that really mattered – his freedom.''(Chaiton, Swinton,99).

The Canadians decided to help him get the freedom he deserved.
Tom is a nice young man who needs to go to court for being accused of raping a young girl named Mayella, although he did not go threw it alone. He had his lawyer Atticus Finch. Atticus is a single father of two. He believes that no matter who he is defending, if that person is innocent, he deserves justice and he will try his best so justice will be served.
''”If you shouldn't be defendin' him, then why are you doin' this?” “...

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...ore we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”''(Lee,101).

When Tom's case was finished and the verdict was guilty, know one would guess that that would be the last minutes of his life. Tom tried to run away he reached up to the fence but they shot him.
''“Oh yes, the guards called him to stop. They fired a few shots in the air, then to kill. They got him just as he went over the fence.”''(Lee,315)

When the town of Maycomb heard the news, everyone forgot about it a few days later. It was as if nothing happened. No one cared. It was only his close friends and his family who was devastated for weeks.

The characters and society are similar even if the novels have a completely different story. They are both set in a terrible time when the black community were slaves and treated like garbage. The only difference is one was successful and the other not so much.

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