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Examine the ways in which Harper Lee presents the black community in To Kill a Mockingbird

The book was written by Harper Lee during the 1950's in America, and
coincided with the rise of the civil rights movement. At this time in history,
racism played a very important role in society. There was a lot of
racial hatred between black and white people. It is set in the 1930s a small town called Maycomb, in Alabama, one of the Southern States. Although Maycomb is a fictitious place, real places and towns such as Montgomery are referred to in the novel. There are a lot of factors, which explain the attitudes of the people towards each other throughout the book. Harper Lee wrote this book in order to expose the racial suffering that black people were exposed to.

The way in which Harper Lee presents the black community is that they are law abiding, hard working people, who respect white people. This is illustrated in Chapter 12, when Scout and Jem are in church with Calpurnia,......

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