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"“This case is as simple as black and white.”"

How is this case literally about black and white?How is this case black and white, figuratively speaking?

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The members of the jury do indeed see the case as black and white, but not in the sense that Atticus means it. Their understanding is much more literal; a black man has been accused of raping and beating a white woman, and in this neck of the woods, that's tantamount to a conviction.

figurativly It is easy to tell the difference between the colors black and white, just like it is easy to tell that Tom Robinson is not guilty

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