What Is The Fallacies In To Kill A Mockingbird

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The first semester in English 3 contains two books, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Chosen. These two books are both universal and timeless and taught readers some life philosophy throughout the stories. However, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird seemed more famous and easier to accept widely by people based on its reflection on an important part of American history. Humorous people conclude that it might be a shame for them to not read this book. Harper Lee conveyed her worldview by hiding them inside the story, and tried to use her own force to shout out the unbalanced phenomenon that happened at that time. As a novel, To Kill a Mockingbird not just helped people to learn more history at that time period, but mostly it helped people to understand more about the fallacies of the court system, the problem of segregation and humanity. …show more content…
As a colored slave but had the characteristics of honest and diligent, he had been accused by a white man’s daughter named Mayella for the crime of raping her. Atticus, a helpful lawyer who tried to assist the slaves with his best and found all the convinced and persuaded evidences that could proof the innocent of Tom. Lee described detailed about how the behaviors of Mayella and her father, Bob betrayed them by giving the example of the signature Bob and the differences between their recounted of the events. Surprisingly, the court and the judges still discriminated Tom as a rapist and put him into jail without a reasonable explanation. Lee tried to recall the thoughts of people for funding and believing the truth without any biases though this case since Tom died for his escape from the

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