Comparing Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird And Just Mercy

To Kill a Mockingbird is a book taking place in Maycomb County during the 1900s. This book has a strong reflection on racism, and how many people are mistreated. Individuals reading this book need to know that it has extreme feelings, but it teaches them what was happening then. Each character is battling their problems throughout the book until they each realize there are much worse problems going on. This novel has very similar connections to the ideas in Just Mercy. The main idea was how all decisions made were extremely biased toward white people. In both stories, all of the information proved Tom Robinson and Johnny D. innocent, however, both were given guilty verdicts. Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird, uses the cruel treatment of Tom Robinson to show how discriminatory Alabama was towards the black community during the 1900s.

Luckily Atticus was guarding the door so they couldn’t get in when one man said, “In one and two, men got out of the car. Shadows became substance as light revealed solid shapes moving toward the jail door. Atticus remained where he was. The men hid him from view.”. “You know what we want,” another man said. “Get out of the door, Mr. Finch” (Lee #172 & 173). This quote illustrates how people in the community feel about Tom Robinson. It shows how people in the black community were guilty until proven innocent, and how blacks were always seen as wrong. This quote is important because it shows how people didn’t believe in Tom, racist people just wanted him dead. White people in the community want him dead only because he is black, and they don’t want to believe he is innocent. The ideas shown in the quote above relate to the idea that although Tom was innocent, he was convicted of guilt because people were biased due to his