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To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter Summaries
While reading this portion of the chapter, I was wondering why Harper Lee included Hitler in the book. After thinking for a while, I feel she did this to emphasize the main point of racism in the novel. Miss Gates brings up how Hitler is persecuting the Jewish and how bad it is. Yet later on, Scout tells Jem about the time she overheard Miss Gates talking about Tom Robinson and that is was a good thing that he was found guilty because it would, “teach them a lesson to stay in their place”. Going back to Miss Gates’ lesson, she talks about how America is a democracy and therefore, unlike Germany, they do not prosecute anyone. Miss Gates believes that everyone deserves equality, and stresses the importance of democracy and how dictatorship is
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