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Examples Of Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Injustice is lack of fairness or justice. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, there are many examples injustice. As Scout Finch grows up in Maycomb County, she is surrounded by injustice. She grows up with her brother Jem and her cook Calpurnia. Dill becomes their friend along the way and with him comes the idea to get Boo Radley out of his house. Their father Atticus is assigned a case where a black man is accused of rapeing a white woman. A prominent theme in To Kill A Mockingbird is injustice. Jem, Dill, and Scout acted unjustly by constantly taunting and harassing Boo Radley. None of the children had ever seen Boo Radley, yet they make him out to be a monster. As described by Jem, Boo is a six and a half foot tall monster, who fed on raw squirrel and cat. He supposedly had a long scar across his face and yellow teeth. The reason that this statement is unjust, because Jem is spreading false, information about a man he had never met. When the children wanted to talk to Boo they decided to taunt him by putting a note on a fishing pole and trying to put it in a window. “Jem was merely going to put the note on the end of a fishing pole and stick it through the shutters” (62). That is a …show more content…

Jem, Dill, and Scout acted unjustly towards Boo Radley. They made assumptions, taunted, and harassed Boo while also violating his right to privacy. Tom Robinson’s case was unjust. That is made clear by the all white jury. It is also made clear by Atticus’s statement about white men and black men and by the fact that Tom was convicted without any evidence against him. Finally, the Ewell family acted unjustly by making up evidence against Tom Robinson, Mayella being mean to someone who had only been nice, and when Bob spat on Atticus. Undoubtedly, a main theme in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird is injustice. “We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party” (Mahatma

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