Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is usually seen as a modern classic, as well as one telling two different kinds of stories. On one hand, it is a coming-of-age story. The reader grows up with Scout and Jem Finch, seeing the world through their eyes as they face new and scary realities. At the same time, the novel is seen as making a powerful statement about racism. Tom Robinson, the poor black man, is unjustly convicted of rape, even though the real evidence clearly has him innocent. These ways of viewing the novel are correct, but there is a larger message than the evil of racism in it, and it goes as well to Scout and Jem’s growing up and that is the main thing
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