Using examples from the chapters, and in proper paragraph form, discuss how Lee's use of exaggeration was effective in highlighting racism in America, especially in the South.
Hyperbole describing Maycomb:
'…a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning.'
'People moved slowly then... A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.'
Racism:
“Maycomb's usual disease” (Lee 187)
"Mr. Cunningham's basically a good man, he just has his blind spots.”(Lee 157)
To Kill a Mockingbird
