Social Justice In To Kill A Mockingbird

Society has set the stereotypical standards of life throughout history. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee expresses her thoughts on social justice using the character Atticus finch. She set his character, one that is full of wisdom and moral rightness, up against society’s bigoted views to express to the audience that social justice is not fair when society has to pick he verdict. In Atticus’s social environment, he does not seem to partake in many activities within his community and his household, according to the testimonies of his children. In chapter ten, Scout talks about how Atticus is when he is pressured to play with his children, such as, “Atticus was never too tired to play keep-away, but when Jem wanted to tackle him Atticus would say, “I’m too old for that, son (118),” but, “When he gave us our air-rifles Atticus wouldn’t teach us to shoot” (119). Scout and Jem don’t really have a chance at …show more content…
Lee has Atticus speak to the jury because she wants to show the audience that majority rule will never always be right, that justice is unfair, and that society never has good terms on which to justify people, when it is a society full of bigotry.
Through this book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee has shed light on what social justice is through the minds of society, Maycomb County, and what it is like through a person of moral rightness, Atticus Finch. If it’s anything we learned from her, we now know that justice will never be true, absolute justice if decided by people with unjustified biases and prejudices against an innocent race, person, etc. Social justice will never be fully equitable until oppression ends, and that will never happen if the people that are unaffected by it are as equally outraged as those who