Examples Of Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird
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Erin Guglielmi
The Road to Justice
As Fredrik Douglass, an American social reformer, says, “Where justice is denied, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe”. In the trial of Tom Robinson vs. Mayella Ewell in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Tom
Robinson is a victim of injustice when he is falsely accused of raping Mayella. This can be compared to the Central Park Jogger case, in which five boys known as the Central Park Five are suspects because of their race and social status. This leads to their false convictions. Throughout the court cases of Tom Robinson and the Central Park Five, …show more content…
Just because Tom is
Black, he is automatically placed at the bottom of the Maycomb social hierarchy. The discrimination towards Blacks is so severe that even Atticus, Tom’s lawyer, is scolded by his own community for defending him. In a course case where it is a White man’s word against a
Black man’s, there is no question that the white man will win. Even though all the evidence provided simply states Tom’s innocence, the court and jury do not allow him to walk out as an innocent man. Reverend Sykes explains to Jem, “He got it caught in a cotton gin, caught it in Mr.
Dolphus Raymond’s cotton gin when he was a boy…like to bled to death… tore all the muscles loose from his bones...” (Lee 186). This proves that Tom is incapable of beating Mayella on the right side of her face. Atticus still does not expect the jury to take Tom 's side of the story into consideration. He is surprised when the jury takes longer than usual to decide on the verdict.
Atticus explains to Jem, "that was the one thing that made me think, well, this may be the shadow of a beginning. That jury took a few hours. An inevitable verdict, maybe, but usually
Erin Guglielmi
The Road to Justice
As Fredrik Douglass, an American social reformer, says, “Where justice is denied, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe”. In the trial of Tom Robinson vs. Mayella Ewell in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Tom
Robinson is a victim of injustice when he is falsely accused of raping Mayella. This can be compared to the Central Park Jogger case, in which five boys known as the Central Park Five are suspects because of their race and social status. This leads to their false convictions. Throughout the court cases of Tom Robinson and the Central Park Five, …show more content…
Just because Tom is
Black, he is automatically placed at the bottom of the Maycomb social hierarchy. The discrimination towards Blacks is so severe that even Atticus, Tom’s lawyer, is scolded by his own community for defending him. In a course case where it is a White man’s word against a
Black man’s, there is no question that the white man will win. Even though all the evidence provided simply states Tom’s innocence, the court and jury do not allow him to walk out as an innocent man. Reverend Sykes explains to Jem, “He got it caught in a cotton gin, caught it in Mr.
Dolphus Raymond’s cotton gin when he was a boy…like to bled to death… tore all the muscles loose from his bones...” (Lee 186). This proves that Tom is incapable of beating Mayella on the right side of her face. Atticus still does not expect the jury to take Tom 's side of the story into consideration. He is surprised when the jury takes longer than usual to decide on the verdict.
Atticus explains to Jem, "that was the one thing that made me think, well, this may be the shadow of a beginning. That jury took a few hours. An inevitable verdict, maybe, but usually