What Would You Do When Confronted with Injustice
Lindsey Trizzino
Mrs. C. Bissmeyer
English III
16 October 2012
What would you do when confronted with Injustice? As American citizens, we withhold freedoms like no other country. When we begin to abuse these freedoms, that’s when injustice occurs. The definition of Injustice is lack of fairness. The late Dr. Martin Luther King, JR. stated that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere.” There are many categories’ that can fall into Injustice. One of the categories that fall under Injustice would be Social Injustice. One example of a social injustice is when a person commits a crime for the first time or gets in trouble with the law for the first time, gets prosecuted to the fullest but a person who is a convicted criminal keeps getting away with the crimes they are committing. Social injustice continues to resurface all around, taking new forms as society grows and changes. In the book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, George, Lennie and Candy, are constantly working towards conquering their dreams and are held back by Curley's selfishness. A few example of social injustice is racism and sexism. Racism is shown when the white men shun Crooks for being an African-American. They treat him differently and make him sleep in a barn away from all the other workers. This still goes on in our society today. Sexism is an important theme in the book. It is also an injustice where the workers mistreat Curley’s wife because she is a female. The workers call her a “tramp” and many other vulgar names because she wears red shoes and is the only female character in a male-dominated story. Another category that would fall under injustice is discrimination against Homosexuality. One of the biggest social injustices going on in the world today is the discrimination against gay and lesbian individuals. For a long time in many (but not all) societies, homosexuals have been persecuted, physically attacked, denied rights to
Mrs. C. Bissmeyer
English III
16 October 2012
What would you do when confronted with Injustice? As American citizens, we withhold freedoms like no other country. When we begin to abuse these freedoms, that’s when injustice occurs. The definition of Injustice is lack of fairness. The late Dr. Martin Luther King, JR. stated that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere.” There are many categories’ that can fall into Injustice. One of the categories that fall under Injustice would be Social Injustice. One example of a social injustice is when a person commits a crime for the first time or gets in trouble with the law for the first time, gets prosecuted to the fullest but a person who is a convicted criminal keeps getting away with the crimes they are committing. Social injustice continues to resurface all around, taking new forms as society grows and changes. In the book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, George, Lennie and Candy, are constantly working towards conquering their dreams and are held back by Curley's selfishness. A few example of social injustice is racism and sexism. Racism is shown when the white men shun Crooks for being an African-American. They treat him differently and make him sleep in a barn away from all the other workers. This still goes on in our society today. Sexism is an important theme in the book. It is also an injustice where the workers mistreat Curley’s wife because she is a female. The workers call her a “tramp” and many other vulgar names because she wears red shoes and is the only female character in a male-dominated story. Another category that would fall under injustice is discrimination against Homosexuality. One of the biggest social injustices going on in the world today is the discrimination against gay and lesbian individuals. For a long time in many (but not all) societies, homosexuals have been persecuted, physically attacked, denied rights to