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Themes in To Kill a Mockingbird

Family What are the Finch children's relationship with their father? What other examples of parent-child relationships are in they book, and how do they compare? What is the function of Aunt Alexandra with relation to family?

Loss of Innocence Think of one character which can be said to go through a loss of innocence in the novel? What do they go through which causes them to lose that innocence? What does that characters loss of innocence reveal about the society in which they live?

Race How is the black community in Maycomb described, and how is the white in the Novel? Is there a difference in how black characters themselves are described? Think of some of the most important black characters in the novel, do they reveal something about the society in which they live?