In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the theme is how racial discrimination happened in daily life around that era and how sometimes it still happens today. Many white southerners treated African American people like they were animals and never got the same treatment as white people because of their skin color. “There are one kind of folks, folks” (Lee 304). That statement represents the inequality that happened in that era that still happens in some ways today. In the government, everyone should follow the same rules and be treated equal through judicial services. “Fair trial is for everyone” (Lee 316). In that time, fair trial never really happened for black people because of their skin color. White people only understood how they
