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The 1930’s were a time of injustice due to race issues, especially in the small southern town of Maycomb County. In the book, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, a young girl names Scout has to deal with the fact that her dad, Atticus, was defending an African American that was accused of raping a girl. Since the town had race issues, it would be impossible to for them to win the case.
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Maycob County treats the African American, Tom Robinson, unfairly and convicts him with rape even though everyone in the court room knew that he wasn’t guilty. “Mr.Finch, I was going home as usual that evening, and when I passed the Ewell place Miss Mayella was on the porch, just like she said she was. It seemed real quiet, I was studying, just passing by, when she says for me to come there and help her a minute. Well I looked around for some kindling to work on but I didn’t see none and she says “Naw I got something for you to do in the house. The old doors off its hinges an falls coming on pretty fast!” Well I went up the steps and she motioned me to come inside. Next thing I know she’d grabbed me around the legs. She reached up and kissed me” The Ewells told the judge that Tom had beat Mayella but in reality Bob Ewell beat Mayella because he saw her kiss Tom Robinson. The jury claimed her was guilty just because he was black. Tom was just trying to help Mayella because he was a good person and she was alone, but nobody wanted to he wasn’t guilty because of their race difference.

Everyone in Maycomb County gave Boo Radley a horrible title. They said he ate squirrels, had popped out eyes and only came out at night so nobody can see him. “People said he came out at night when the moon was out and pepped in windows. When peoples Azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on. Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycob were his work” Scout thinks he is a bad person until the end of the book when she realizes that all he wanted to do was help. When Bob Ewell tried killing Atticus’s kids to get revenge on him for embarrassing him during the trial, Boo Radley was there to help

Scout and Jem by killing Bob before he killed them. He also left them toys in the tree in front of his house. “Atticus was right, One time he said you never really know a ,man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in the. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.” This is when Scout realizes Boo was a good person.

In the book it seemed like the kids were more sensitive when it came to all the race issues. This is because the adults were already used to all these problems.”How could they do it, how could they?” “I don’t know, but they did. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do- it seems only children weep.” This shows that when something goes unfairly, only the children see the wrong in it. And the adults just ignore the problem.

In conclusion, the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” talks about the race issues in Maycomb Ciounty and how Boo Radley and Tom Robisnon were seen as the “Mockingbirds” of the story because they are seen as bad but in reality they are really seeking good. Like Scout said “Killing a mockingbird is a sin.”