Examples Of Social Inequality In To Kill A Mockingbird

When equality is not accepted, people can be wrongfully punished. The book To Kill a Mockingbird demonstrates how social inequality is difference between people in society based on their skin color, wealth and even their education. Throughout the book, Scout realizes that there are many examples of how their social class is set up showing that the major roles are skin color, education, and wealth in 1930’s Maycomb. The most striking example of the unfair social classes is Tom Robinson’s case. Due to the social inequalities throughout the book, Tom Robinson didn’t get a fair trial. “Mr. Ewell could have beaten up Mayella. That much I could follow. If her right eye was blacked and she was mostly beaten up on the right side of the face, it would tend to show that a left handed person did it” (Lee 238). During the …show more content…
Due to an accident Robinson had a kid, there was no way he could have used his left hand, especially to hurt someone. “He got it caught in a cotton gin, caught it in Mr. Dolphus Raymond’s cotton gin when he was a boy…like to bled to death…tore all the,uncle loose from his bones,” (Lee 249) Reverend Sykes leaned over to tell Jem. Although this statement proves that there was no physical way they Robinson could’ve hurt Mayella, she was on a higher social class leading the court to take her word over the facts stated in the case. This example is similar to a time when a cop went undercover at a high school. There was a special need kid who was new to his school and had no close friends yet. Then a kid named “Daniel” decided to start talking to the kids and became friends with him. “Daniel” was actually an undercover cop who tried convincing the special needs kid to sell him some of his prescription medicine, although he refused. Daniel then started giving the senior money to buy him weed. In December later on, the special needs kid was arrested along with 21 other