How Does Tom Robinson Use Social Inequality In To Kill A Mockingbird

Social inequality is a serious problem of the past, present, and future, in all time periods such as the Great Depression. The people who are being treated unfairly become conserved angry, as well as many other mixed emotions. The people that do not treat every person equal also faces similar problems. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place during the Great Depression in the southern city of Maycomb, Alabama which can cause different ethnicities to face inequality because of the color of their skin. In the novel, a lawyer, Atticus, and his two children, Scout and Jem witness many similar experiences with social inequality. An African-American, Tom Robinson faces social inequality from people in this town. Similar to Tom Robinson, Atticus’s neighbor, Arthur Radley faces social inequality because of the rumors floating throughout the town. Moreover, Mr. Ewell does not
In the novel, after the trial, Atticus Finch states, “I told him (Tom Robinson) what I thought, but I couldn’t in truth say that we had more than a good chance. I guess Tom was tired of white men’s chance and preferred to take his own” (Lee 315). Tom Robinson, a victim of social inequality is destroyed. He stops having faith in Atticus, a white man he trusted prior to the case and instead takes his own chances. Tom Robinson ends up attempting to escape from prison but gets shot seventeen times to death. The social inequality and unfairness he experienced, especially in the trial, causes Tom Robinson to deteriorate mentally and physically causing him to make this rash decision which leads to his death. Tom Robinson decided he would rather take the risk and die, then live in a jail cell all of his life. In the early twentieth century, there was a lot of social inequality among people. These people would rather die trying to be free than live caged inside a cell for the rest of their