Examples Of Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird

Our society has not grown past any injustices related to discrimination since the time period that To Kill a Mockingbird was set in. The same lack of justice in Tom Robinson’s court case is present today in the shooting of Michael Brown, and the injustice of the discrimination of women is still present today, not only in modern, everyday society, but in the wages that women receive as opposed to men. One major theme in To Kill a Mockingbird is justice in society, or lack thereof. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, a black man, Tom Robinson, is accused for the rape of the town disgrace, Bob Ewell’s, daughter. Set in a small, southern town after the Civil War, racism is prevalent in their society and plays a key role in the prosecution of Tom Robinson. “A court is …show more content…
The you, black man was shot by police officers while on the way to his grandmother’s house after he apparently got into a dispute with an officer. However, from other people's perspective, things went a bit differently, “Witnesses at the scene say Brown was unarmed and had his hands in the air when he was shot multiple times by an officer.” (dailymail.co/uk). This just goes to show that because of his race the police officers either saw him as a threat, or just did not care enough about his life. A quote from To Kill a Mockingbird that goes well with this event is when Miss Maudie says to Scout, "There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results." (Lee 45). To me, this shows that the people of Maycomb are too preoccupied with what will become of the social dominance of their race over others, that they fail to realize that people of other races face the same issues as themselves, much like the police officer who shot Michael Brown when he was posing no real threat to him or