After this, he is tooken to the county jail, where during the inmates excecise period, he is shot dead for attempting to escape. Atticus later has to visit Helen, Toms wife, and tell her of the news. All of this heartbreak could have been avoided if the people of Maycomb could just open their eyes and see that just beause Tom did not share the same skintone as they did, did not mean he wasn’t just like them on the inside. Instead, his children and his wife would have to lay their heads down at night and think of Tom, and how he was never coming home again.
To Kill a Mockingbird has taught me how prejudice can ruin the lives of others, and affect the lives of all those around it. Black or white, shy or outgoing, rude or kind, we ar all people just the same, and need to treat each other as such. We must learn to love one another for the sake of humanity. Difference is something our world to this day has a problem with accepting, but being different is perfectly normal, and we need to realize