To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird Essay

This essay is on the novel 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. In the novel there is many situations that are injustice.
In the town of Maycomb Alabama, there are many different races such as, the Negros (Calpurnia ),The whites (Fintch’s), and the pale skinned (Boo Radely) . They all come from the same place, and have the same color blood but yet they are all rated and treated like they are from different planets. The town of
Maycomb proves this by looking at people differently if they don’t, look, or act the same as everybody else. In the novel Atticus finch is looked at differently by others, only because he has a black women as a house keeper. The people of Maycomb even called him a “Negro lover” (Lee 107). But not only because he has a black house keeper, it’s also because he is defending Mr. Robinson in a court case to prove his innocence. It’s not Finch’s fault that he sees everybody equally as a whole, instead of how the rest of
Maycomb sees the black people, like lower classes.

Tom Robinson is treated un fairly in the case of the alleged rap Mayella. The town of Maycomb, before even hearing the trial, thought that Tom did indeed rap Mayella. Even during the court case Bob Ewell said,” I seen that nigger yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella “ (Lee 231). What is Mr. Robinson to do, he is just trying to prove his innocence to the court, when Mr. Ewell just calls him a ‘Nigger’. This is injustice because; the man is a human, nothing more nothing less. He has eyes, ears, a nose and a mouth like everyone else. And even though it was almost certain that Tom Robinson had won the case, he actually ended up losing. It’s not his fault can’t choose the color of his own skin; he was just born like that. It’s unfair to treat a man like that who has no control over the color of his own skin.

Boo Radley is another victim of injustice in the novel. He is believed to be some sort of monster looking kid, that’s ten feet tall, big and scary, almost mythical looking man. Yet the people of Maycomb haven’t even seen Boo Radley, they only judge him by what they heard. But the kids are the ones that are being affected; they are the ones that are scared to go near his house at night. And what do kids do? They ask questions, so Jem asked Miss Maudie why is Boo Radley so dangerous and what had happened for him to be considered dangerous. Miss Maudie answered, “He shot at a negro in his collard patch. He didn’t hit the Negro, he shot in the air. Scared him pale, though. Says if anybody sees a white Negro around, that’s the one. Says he’s got the other barrel waitin’ for the next sound he hears in that patch, an’ next time he won’t aim high, be it dog, nigger, or- Jem Fintch!” (Lee 72). It’s not fair to judge someone just by the stories you hear, because when Boo took Scout away from the fire and wrapped her in a blanket;
Scout wasn’t afraid. In that situation she found that Boo wasn’t as bad as the he seemed by all the stories she heard.

As stated in this essay it’s shown that the town of Maycomb is injustice by the way people are treated unfairly, because they are slightly different from everyone else. Atticus was just mistreated, because of his house keeper, and for who he was sticking up for in the court case. Mr. Robinson wasn’t given an honest trail, just because his skin color was different. Also Boo Radley being thought about in bad ways, only by the stories people had heard. The only thing left to be said is that, you can’t judge a book by it’s cover. WORK CITIED
Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird, New York City.
Warner Books, INC. 1960