To Kill A Mockingbird Controversy

Harper Lee’s To kill a Mockingbird is piece of American literature that follows the story of a black man falsely accused of rape by a white woman. Set in a time period where racism is in in abundance, To kill a Mockingbird delivers the story in a raw and gut-wrenching form that causes the reader to truly face the harsh reality than many African Americans lived. Not only does To kill a Mockingbird cause readers to recognize the idea that racism was a culture in America, the book defies the idea that racism was simply an ideology, but instead a culture that celebrated the lynching of African American citizens . Lee’s use of an all white jury and false sentence, the public’s celebration, and ease with a black man being killed despite being innocent, and the social outcasting of all who tried to defend a black man all point to the belief that racism is, or was common culture in America. In the book, Tom Robinson faced an unfair trial of an all white jury, this causes the complete and utter negligence of factual evidence and conviction based on prejudice instead of justice. Tom Robinson was denied the right to fair trial and the jury’s prejudice against him clouded their judgement and ability to think of him as an equal. Atticus explains to Jem that racism trumps critical thinking of even reasonable men.
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Things such as all white juries, mobs, and racism where all issues that African Americans faced during that time. To Kill a Mockingbird delivers a story about injustice in a very unapologetic manner that forces the reader to acknowledge the injustice that African Americans faced. Using a fictional story that mirrors real life events, Harper Lee exposes how prevalent racism was in southern