Ethical Issues In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee addresses the social, ethical and moral issues that take place in the harsh reality of life. It takes place in the South and is narrated by a little girl and it tells the story of her, her brother and their friend growing up. It starts off with them being so naïve and innocent but in there small Alabama town are completely indulged in racism, cruelty and other forms of various abuse that they have to witness as children and somehow find a way to understand and accept it. It expresses the ability of doing right and wrong, to be able to do thing that is ethically and morally right, which is achieved really well through Atticus Finch the father of these two children. Acceptance and equality really shows in this

When Scout was two years old and Jem was six their mother died and neither one of them had very many memories of her because they were so young. They meet another young boy that they call Dill, he visits his aunt every summer who lives next to Scout and Jem. In a rundown house called the Radley Place and a man named Boo Radley lived there. The kids had this idea that Boo Radley was locked in the house by his father. There is a lot of superstition and myths of the true story of what really happened to Boo Radley. The entire story is told in a flash back as Scout is narrating as an adult but at the same time its narrated by Scout as a child. Atticus is asked to defend a black man who is accused of raping a woman. This is a huge deal because in the 1930’s in Maycomb Alabama what an extremely racist white community. Atticus shows an overwhelming amount of evidence that the black is in fact innocent but an all-white jury still convicts him. ”By dwelling solely on that one issue, though, is to miss the larger theme of the novel: the loss of innocence. Jem and Scout are idealistic kids who, overall, think Maycomb is a great place to live and populated with decent, honorable people. This applies especially to Jem. After Atticus finishes his cross-examination of Mr. Ewell, Jem whispers fiercely, “We got him.” In fact, he’s sure the jury will acquit Robinson. The evidence is plain as

“I do my best to love everybody,” he tells Scout—Atticus never suspects that his true moral duty might be to marshal an intolerance of intolerance. The day after Scout disperses the lynch mob on the steps of the jail, Atticus tells her and Jem that the leader, Mr. Cunningham, is “basically a good man … he just has his blind spots along with the rest of us.” That good man was about to murder an innocent human being—that’s quite a blind spot. The socially awakened Jem doesn’t let his father get away with such poltroon babble: “Don’t call that a blind spot,” he says. “He’da killed you last night.”(Lee). This event really opens up the children’s eyes of how much hatred and violence there is in the world especially in their small town of