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To Kill A Mockingbird Theme

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A theme is an underlying message the author is trying to convey directly or indirectly. In Harper Lee’s award winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many themes present in this classic novel. Harper Lee corresponds these themes into the characters in the story with events and dilemmas that unfold as Scout and Jem face them. In the title, it gives an introduction to the main theme that reflects society at that time that the “mockingbirds” in the story are being crucified through the evils of racism when they haven’t done anything wrong. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many recognizable themes present, but the masked ones that aren’t so recognizable are faith versus doubt, change of power and emptiness of attaining a false dream.
Faith versus doubt isn’t the most obvious theme present in the story, but it was one of the most crucial ones, in the story the characters portray their hopes and doubts in a series of events. Atticus Finch was given a case of a lifetime that would affect him personally that possess a black man’s word against the Ewell’s. “In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins” (Lee 295). Atticus had faith in …show more content…

Lee wanted to address issues like racism and prejudice etc. in society at that time moreover the only way she could’ve talked about it was in a book through events the characters faced. At that time, society was going through the hardest time like experiencing the great depression, the dust bowl and racism and all of that was told through the eyes of a little girl named Scout. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the issues that Harper Lee wanted to address were told by themes that were unfolded through a series of

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