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In To Kill a Mockingbird, family is destiny. Within the confines of a small town where the same people have lived for generations, no one can escapeā¦becoming their parents. Horror! Either the parents raise their kids to be like them, for good or ill, or the pressure of community expectations that a person live up, or down, to their family is too much to resist. While this attitude creates a comfortable familiarity and a cozy predictability, it also makes progress, both for the individual and the community, very difficult.
To Kill a Mockingbird suggests that family matters: individuals can't overcome being born into bad families.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, characters find it easier to think about people as groups rather than as individuals.