To Kill A Mockingbird And Feed

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Injustice persists in almost all movies, books, and TV shows. Injustice is a universal trait of humanity, visible in every crevice of the species, no matter the culture. Injustice can be seen in two particular novels: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ the historical fiction novel by Harper Lee, and ‘Feed,’ the science fiction novel by M.T. Anderson. Feed takes place in a futuristic society where almost everyone has chips implanted into their brains, while TKAM takes place in a small fictional town during the mid-to-early 1900s. Despite these two novels being near-direct opposites, they share some notable similarities, such as the injustice seen in both books and the idea of what could happen and what is, or was, plausible. Let us begin with the first

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