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To Kill A Mockingbird Essays: Relationships And Women's Equality
Relationships in this society are nothing like the ones we have. Equality meets a woman named Liberty. He isn’t supposed to look at her or think about her. As equality says,”For men are forbidden to take notice of women, and women are forbidden to take notice of men.” (pg;11) Though that is one of the laws for relationships Equality sees her working and starts to think of all the beautiful things about her. After seeing her he gives her a nickname but the council says,”It is a sin to give men other names which distinguish them from other men.” (pg;12) That doesn’t stop him from calling her “The Golden One”.
In our world you aren’t forced to have kids but for them it is completely different. When the men are older than twenty one and the

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