To Kill A Mockingbird Theme Of Injustice

In 1944 a supreme court case took away the civil rights of Japanese Americans during World War II. Injustices of this severity are still around. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Tom Robinson is falsely accused of rape because of his race. Through the injustices faced by the father, Atticus, the persecuted Tom, and the outcast Boo, Lee tries to assuage the readers views of injustice into that of a perspective that is open. Harper Lee employs her book as a way of encouraging her readers to look at social issues in a different light. To be able to have any significance to readers Lee dictates very carefully so readers don’t find messages that aren’t there. When Atticus’s son Jem catches the ill-wanted attention of Mrs. Dubose he complains
Lee uses Arthur’s previously dramatized and built up character to emphasize her use of allusion in a way that is unique to Arthur compared to any other character. It is because of this uniqueness that Lee alludes that Jem and Scout will have a change of heart when they think of things in Arthur’s perspective. At one point in the story Jem loses his pants in front of the Radley place. “‘When I went back, they were folded across the fence… like they were expectin’ me”(78). This hints to the fact that Arthur is nice. However, Jem is scared of this action. This makes people realize that Jem hasn’t been accepting of new ideas and has only analyzed his own views. Another way Lee builds up emphasizes her them is using Scout’s confusion over the events of what happened when Arthur saved them to allude to readers that Atticus may be wrong in his former discrepancy with Sheriff Tate. “I was trying to remember. Mr. Ewell was on me… then he went down…. Jem must have gotten up. At least I thought…”(368). This alludes to the fact that even though Scout is ignorant to what really happened with Bob Ewell and Arthur the reader should not be. Very rarely do authors use sentences structured this way. Almost every instance of it is a case of the author alluding to an event that is going to transpire. In this case it is the fact that what Atticus and Scout believe is wrong. It is this wrongness
The characters Tom, Atticus, and Arthur are each used in unique ways to emphasize what she wants the reader to know. This lesson is so important to Harper Lee and should be important to everyone because if you just keep this in mind arguments and disputes would become a lot more peaceful in the world. If people did change their perspective to whoever they are arguing with maybe humanity would be a nicer place. As in Frankie Laine’s number one hit in 1950, if the two lovers had just taken a look at each other's view they would have lived a happy life just like anyone else who took this lesson to