To Kill a Mockingbird | Topics for Discussion
1. Scout describes her father's first law case in this way: "His first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the Maycomb County jail...The Haverfords had dispatched Maycomb's leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding... were imprudent enough to do it in front of three witnesses...They persisted in pleading Not Guilty to first-degree murder, so there was nothing much Atticus could do for his clients except be present at their departure, an occasion that was probably the beginning of my father's profound distaste for the practice of criminal law." How is this passage an example of...
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