Tom Robinson, a character in To Kill A Mockingbird, is incessantly looked down upon due to his skin color, a factor that he has no control over. The story depicts Tom being accused of a crime that he didn’t commit. All due to the community assuming that it’s typical for a negro man to undertake a felony, he’s forced to suffer through unwanted and undeserved hardships. Tom haplessly had the disadvantage of being a colored man. “‘In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins.’” (Lee 295) In this regard, the accusations led to a devastating trial. The town of Maycomb failed to take a stand for what’s truly right. They believed that an innocent black man was worthy of taking irrational penalties for
