The Theme Of Justice In To Kill A Mockingbird

Justice keeps America on its feet. It sets it apart from other nations. Defending the defenseless and accounting for the unaccountable, justice was worth the fight to preserve. But the fight for justice does not end on the battlefield. Through Harper Lees’ To Kill a Mockingbird, the theme of justice burrows itself in the readers mind. The Finche family fights furiously the onslaught of stricture and abuse directed toward them for taking a stand for justice. However, they are not the only ones to endure this Alamo.

Scout, the little girl who doubles as the narrator for this story, tends to be mercurial. Therefore, when her cousin, Francis, begins lampooning her father, she doesn’t hesitate to fight him. Immediately Scouts’ Uncle Jack begins to lay into her. Francis accusation are the only thing heard in the bustle and Scout gets severely reprimanded. Scout, although furious, manages to explain to her Uncle Jack in these words, “Well in the first place you never stopped to give me a chance to tell my side of it-you just lit right into me…Francis provoked me enough to knock his block off….Francis called Atticus something.” (86) Uncle Jack instantly feels terrible
Boo Rally, a reclusive hermit, saves Scout and Jem from certain death by stabbing their attacker with his own knife. However, the sheriff makes a decision to hide this good deed to preserve the man’s privacy. Atticus, the children’s father, is not happy about hiding the truth, but Scout tries to reassure him. “‘Mr. Tate was right.’ Atticus disengaged himself and looked at me. ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Well, it’d be sorts like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?’” Scouts wisdom goes beyond her years as she quotes the line “To Kill a Mockingbird” which means to harm the harmless. It would, indeed, being harming the man who saved his children to expose him to the public eye. Thanks to Heck Tate, Boo’s peace stays