Racism in Maycomb in Harper Lee´s To Kill a Mockingbird

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In Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” there is a lot of racism. Racism happens everywhere in the world sometimes as a joke and sometimes as a joke or just randomly slips out of your mouth. Many people in the world are treated unequally because of their religion, color, beliefs, disabilities and much more. In this novel there is lots of racism and it’s mainly between the blacks and the whites. The blacks are treated like slaves and the whites are treated like kings. Jem was affected when Atticus decided to take the case and defend Tom Robinson, the trial and the discrimination against black people. The character that I think was really affected by racism would be Jem. Jem was really affected when Atticus had decided to take the case and defend Tom Robinson. At that time Jem thought black people were bad people and terrorists. Throughout the book Jem realizes that racism is a much bigger issue than it seems, and understands that Atticus is one of few people that stand against racism publicly. Jem finally understands that “Judge Taylor naming Atticus to defend (Tom) was no accid...

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