Children are often punished by adults who do not know the situation or what provoked them. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird perfectly demonstrates how children are punished before they have a chance to speak. Scout the little girl of the Finch Family stood up for her father Atticus Finch when her cousin Francis started to insult him. Francis was talking badly about how Atticus was helping a black man. When the two got caught fighting Francis said that she called him inappropriate names when she had not. Scout's Uncle Jack spanked her without hearing her side of the story. Uncle Jack was in the wrong when he hit Scout for fighting Francis. Uncle Jack unfairly punished Scout for her fighting her cousin without hearing both sides. After Scout