In life it is important to look deeper than the surface of people before making judgments about them. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird the people of Maycomb County are presented with a trail. The black Tom Robinson is wrongly accused of raping a white female, Mayella Ewell. As a result of the citizens’ ignorance and racist beliefs, they attack Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch (Tom’s lawyer), Scout Finch (Atticus’s daughter), and Jem Finch (Atticus’s son) on an emotional and physical level. The Finches are white, but people feel threatened by them because of the fact that Atticus is standing up for what he believes is right even though it is a different belief than the other Maycomb citizens. Throughout the book, Lee conveys the message
