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Choice C: So far, is this a novel about race? Class? Gender? Coming of Age? Place? Select and defend your answer.

I would say that this book is mostly about race, class, and place.

The reason why I think it's about race is because as we read through this book you noticed a lot of segregation between the white people in town and the black people. They both have their own little village kinda thing going on in Maycomb. This book is strongly about race, and it shows when Tom Robinson was found guilty in his case. When everybody knew that Tom was innocent. The verdict only reached that decision , because once again that color barrier that Maycomb has.

This book also has class tied into it. That's Mycomb's "class" generations. We have the high classed people, then we have the middle class, in this case it would be The Finchs'. Then we have the low class, we figured that that's the black people and their community. Lastly, way at the bottom there's the Ewell's along with the Cunningham's. This class has lots to do with the respect that you get in town.

Lastly this book has a lot to do with place. Since the live in Maycomb, Alabama, which is in the southern part of America. Over their segregation, and racism is really big, so in this book since it takes place in Maycomb all these things have to do with were the setting is at.