Examples Of Unfairness In To Kill A Mockingbird

In Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”, the book states multiple offensive statements discriminating people by their race and social ability. Ever since 1933, when the setting of the book took place, to this day people all over the world have experienced these social and racial issues leading to unfairness. America and people around the world, will never achieve true racial and social equality, even if it has improved since the nineteen-hundreds.

Prejustice and the judgment within the novel, portrays a negative opinion with very little justified knowledge. The characters, that demonstrate racial and social unfairness, in the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”, often are quite biased and act unfavourably towards people of different

Tom Robinson, a middle aged black man, is accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. Mayella serves a mother figure to her younger siblings and is invloved in an incestuious realationship with her father, Bob Ewell. The Ewell family does not have money and lack education therefore representing that they are in the lower class. In the novel, it is quickly recognized that Tom Robinson is convicted based on the colour of his skin. In the trial, Bob Ewell’s reaction to Mayella kissing a black man horrifies him, showing the fear of miscegenation. After battling the trial from both sides, Atticus explains to Scout and Jem that in the court, when it is a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. After the judge left to determine the winner of the case, when the jury came back out it is stated that “ A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted” (282) and when they came out, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson. He was then found guilty after Atticus fought long and hard for him. It was that way because of the colour of Tom’s skin. The jury was actually considering the points made from Tom and Atticus but they had to go with the white man’s word against the black