In the extract from her novel To Kill a Mocking-Bird, Harper Lee reveals the courage shown towards a mob of men set out to kill an innocent man. ... Harper Lee's extract imparts the danger portended in a scene outside the County jail between the lynch mob and an African-American, Tom Cunningham. ... "I thought he would have a fine surprise, but his face killed my joy." ... By using the techniques of language, dialogue and first person point of view in her passage, involving the jail incident, Harper Lee has successfully drawn the unjust issues incurring in the Nineteen thirties to the re...

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