Comparing to Kill a Mockingbird and a Time to Kill

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Comparing To Kill A Mockingbird and A Time To Kill There are similarities and differences in character, theme, plot and symbolism in the books To Kill A Mockingbird and A Time To Kill. To Kill A Mockingbird is a book about growing up under certain circumstances in the 1930s in Southern United States. The story covers three years, during which the main characters deal with big changes. Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. Maycomb is a small town and every family has their own social status depending on where they live, who their parents are, and how long their family have lived in the town (Lee, 5-7). A Time To Kill is a book about the life of a ten year old girl, Tonya Hailey, and how her life is ruined by two drunken young men that rape and beat her. The town of Clanton in Ford County, Mississippi is a mostly white town and reacts very badly to the crime that was done to the ten year old girl. Tonya Hailey along with her father are one of the few black families living in the neighborhood. (Grisham, 2-3) In the two books To Kill A Mockingbird and A Time To Kill there are many characters that are similar to one another and also different. The character differences in the two books are, in To Kill A Mocking Bird the father, Bob Ewell father of daughter that was accusing that she was raped, is a lazy abusive drunkard and does not really take the time out of his life to deafened his own daughter. While in the book A Time To Kill the father, Carl Lee Hailey, is over protective and reacts about his daughter getting raped and even goes to the extent of putting the matter is his own hands. Also in the book To Kill A Mockingbird the man being accused of raping Mayella Ewell, Tom Robinson, is a very kind black man unlike in the book A Time To Kill where the men who raped
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