What's the true meaning of “social justice” according to an online resource, it means, a concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society. Throughout the novel, the author uses multiple characters that face racism, discrimination, and injustice. In the novel, Lee uses Atticus Finch to express her thoughts on social justice as to treating people equally and being understanding towards others. Atticus being the father of Jem and Scout plays the role of support and a role model as they grow. Harper Lee created Atticus Finch for a purpose, to put her own beliefs, views, opinions, and issues of injustice into a made up character. Atticus is a very respectful man, regardless of what other people may believe or say about
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They were treated this way because of the color or their skin and culture. In the novel, the character of Tom Robinson was accused of raping Mayella Ewell, but back in those days, it was impossible for a jury to take an innocent black man's word over a white man. Atticus addresses this to his only son named Jem after he sees the confusion on his face by saying, “There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life. The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box,"(Lee 38-40). In other words, what Atticus is trying to say is that when whites encounter a different race other than their own they get all skeptical about it. He talks about it just in case it wasn't already obvious to Jem that the law isn't always fair and sometimes the court of Maycomb may take actions similar to which the folks in town would take and not into deep
They were treated this way because of the color or their skin and culture. In the novel, the character of Tom Robinson was accused of raping Mayella Ewell, but back in those days, it was impossible for a jury to take an innocent black man's word over a white man. Atticus addresses this to his only son named Jem after he sees the confusion on his face by saying, “There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life. The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box,"(Lee 38-40). In other words, what Atticus is trying to say is that when whites encounter a different race other than their own they get all skeptical about it. He talks about it just in case it wasn't already obvious to Jem that the law isn't always fair and sometimes the court of Maycomb may take actions similar to which the folks in town would take and not into deep