Explain Why Does He Act Like A Negro In To Kill A Mockingbird

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at the courtroom. The blacks would sit up in the balcony and the whites stay on the bottom because they are more important (Lee. 219). The black waited patiently for the whites to find a seat before they did, and a black man or woman would get up for a white, so they could sit down if there was not enough seats. On top of this, there was a black community and a white community. Negroes who moved to Maycomb could not just live where the whites did they had to go to the black community to live. Dolphus Raymond in the book was a well set man, but he hung around with the negroes, and when Jem and Scout went to town and saw him she said, “Then why does he do like that?”(Lee. 215) what she means is, why does he act like a negro. Although this is

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