Examples Of Evil In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Unlike all those Marvel stories, nobody is pure“evil” or “ good” in the real world. All the people in the world have done something evil or something good at least once. The one who judges people by a simple “good” or “evil” is the one who has never tried to walk in someone else's shoes.
If you don’t understand why I think of that, here is an example. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, before anyone stepped into Boo Radley’s shoes, everybody thought that Boo Radley was just an evil person that “is six-and-a-half feet tall”, “dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch”, “hands were bloodstained”, “eyes popped”, and he “drooled most of the time”. But when they talked to Boo, they realized he was not evil after all. He even saved Scout

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