Examples Of Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere”. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, author Harper Lee, addresses the wicked society in which injustice is served based upon the withstanding prejudice and racism the town of Maycomb contains. Lee addresses this to the reader through the use of characters that symbolize the victims of the society's prejudice that lead them into injustice. Tom Robinson, Boo Radley and Atticus Finch are among those who have been subjected to Maycomb's curse, and have been victimized by the either the members of the town or the “moral code” that the community has entailed for itself. Lee questions the reader's mind through the use of symbolism to demonstrate the series of injustices done in the town. Symbolism is significant throughout the novel with …show more content…
The amount of racial prejudice the town is afflicted with blinds the hearts of people's judgement and it has labeled a man who's innocent, a convict. When waiting restlessly for hours in the court, in anticipation for the final verdict of the jury Scout says,“ I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: “Guilty… guilty … guilty… guilty… guilty” (Lee, 282). A society's view on a black man is the ugly kind, their moral code does not allow them to be in favour of a black man, despite all evidence proving the innocence of one man. Moreover, Tom has no ability whatsoever to defend himself or have a voice to stand up for himself against the towns racial prejudice, it would surely lead to his death as society would fear his bravery against them. When the Finch children receive guns as a christmas gift Atticus enforces a rule the children had never once heard him say, “Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit’em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee, 119). Atticus