To Kill A Mockingbird Tkam Analysis

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In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Scout, the main character, has views on many different topics. As a first grader in Maycomb county, Jean Louise lived through a very tight and tense racial situation. Her view on black people versus white people changes throughout the course of the book.
When Scout was little she lived in a community where black people were not accepted as much as whites in the United States and especially Southern states. Calpurnia was a housekeeper for the Louises. She was black and basically served the role as the mother figure for Jem and Scout. Her father Atticus was not racist and saw every human being, black or white as an equal being. Atticus was a lawyer and a very kind, proper man. He showed her and

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