Parallelism is found in Atticus’s closing statements in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and Martin Luther King Jr’s ‘I Had a Dream’ speech. Both speeches use the device to express inequality, however one discusses natural inequality while the other explains social inequality. Atticus Finch’s says “some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others…” (Lee) in his closing statement. This is in reference to how naturally life is not equal. He uses this line to express how the court is the only place where there can be equality in their society. By repeating the phrase ‘some people’ he uses parallelism to separate people from each other so they can look as the defendant
