Ignorance is obviously one of the worst defects in a human being and one can observe the inherent ignorance on racial questions in the novel ‘To Kill a Mockinbird’ by Harper Lee. One has to consider the fact that the novel is set in a sleepy town in Macomb County in mid 1930’s Alabama where the theme of racial ignorance was terribly rife. The idiotic concept which filled the poor white man’s mind was that the black man was constantly on the prowl to rape white woman and deflower them so he deserved any sort of punishment
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