1. The Cycle of Oppression
Scout is exposed to hatred and racism to colored people as she grows up in Maycomb. ... As she gets older and wiser, she comes to the conclusion that the colored men are just like white men and that the world is unfair to colored people. ... Deprivation didn't stop there, as in Baltimore the colored folk were not allowed to live near white people, "No black person could occupy a home on a block where more than half the people were white;" (The Editorial Board). Even when the colored families can afford to live in the same neighborhood as white people if the majority of the occ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate