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To Kill A Mockingbird 7 What's Next for Maycomb 93 Views
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Sure Atticus lost the case, but he made his point and now—from somewhere in the back of the courthouse—a single clap starts what becomes a thundering of cheers and everyone became friends. Sigh…if only that’s how it ended.
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in To kill a mockingbird what's
- 00:07
next for maycomb ala shmoop after the tom robinson case
- 00:11
what happens for civil rights and make home This is
- 00:15
an exception to the rule and we know that nothing
- 00:19
changed for twenty thirty years after that one civil rights
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- 00:22
movement really got the full force and nothing really changed
- 00:26
until even after that So you know it's not like
- 00:30
oh atticus made this big you know to do And
- 00:33
now everyone's getting along we know that what's gonna happen
- 00:36
when the book ends is everything you say exactly the
- 00:39
same Maybe it'll get worse for our people Start making
- 00:41
on a scout again at school Make fun of her
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dad You know her dad will be getting threats This
- 00:46
has been happening throughout the entire book So it's really
- 00:48
you know i don't think of it as things are
- 00:50
going to get worse It's things are going to stay
- 00:52
the same and that's almost the worst case scenario because
- 00:55
what needs to happen in a time of you know
- 00:58
horrible prejudice is something needs to change And we get
- 01:02
this idea that nothing's going to change it And it
- 01:03
we know historically that it didn't Does the resolution of
- 01:09
the novel bring about major change for maycomb Does racism 00:01:12.976 --> [endTime] still exists today in the criminal justice system
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