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To Kill A Mockingbird

I decided to do my chapter summary on To Kill A Mockingbird because in the book, it shows a lot of racism and it shows that when people are raised to hate something, like a race, they hate it even though they have no reason to hate it. This book shows what most people in the mid 1900's felt like towards African Americans.
In this book, the racism shows in many ways. There are a lot of people who say things casually, but it would be a very bad thing to say at the present time. For example, a lot of people all throughout the book would refer to African Americans as niggers. It was a very common thing to do and it was just like calling them African American in the present time. Nowadays though, to say the word nigger is a very derogatory thing to say to anyone, but especially an African American. Also, people would call African Americans boy all the time. Now, that may not be a very bad thing to say to a younger boy, but they would refer to adult men......

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