How Does Maudie Show Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird

Bob Enyart said,” It is not a justice system. It is just a system.” In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, a coming of age novel about the adventures and experiences of a young girl, Lee plunges into trialing times of being black during the 1900s and the injustices of racial discrimination. Through the use of symbolism and court evidence Lee shows the inequality the court presents through discrimination.
Through the use of symbolism Lee connects the innocence of a mockingbird to Tom Robinson to show the injustice and inequality towards him during the trial. In chapter 10, when the kids get their air rifles and Uncle Jack and Atticus tell them it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird, Miss Maudie says, “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s garden, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” This establishes the importance of not killing a mockingbird and helps the reader connect the innocence of Tom Robinson to the innocence of a mockingbird. Furthermore, in chapter 22, Jem asks Atticus “How could they do it, how could they?” to which Atticus replies with, “I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done
Harper Lee addresses the inequality to show that anyone, anything, and anywhere can have unjust tendencies. To Kill a Mockingbird is set back in the 1930s but the problems faced in the book still impact the world today. There have been instances when racial inequality has been present in the world we live in, where any ethnicity can be looked upon as not equal to another and a courtroom can serve justice or just create more