To Kill a Mockingbird
To kill a mockingbird
Why can't Jem, Scout and Atticus beat the system?
Why can't Jem, Scout and Atticus beat the system?
The system was still mired in the racism and bigotry of the American South's past. Atticus was hoping he could win but knew in his heart that:
"We were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."