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Examples Of Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Landon Morton Ms. Holt Bane May 9th, 2024 TKAM ESSAY To Kill a Mockingbird has more injustice in it than any other book ever created. This miserable book is filled with racism and injustice. The most disgusting thing about humans is their injustice, which all of them have. Not one person on this earth knows what true justice is. This point is proved tremendously in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. Justice truly does not exist, there is no such thing as justice. Justice is simply a state of mind. If justice is real, then why did Tom Robinson die? If justice is real, then why does Mayella get raped by her own father? If justice is real, then why does Bob Ewell die peacefully? Justice is stupid, and no physical man holds the power of justice. No …show more content…

People cannot put themselves into another's shoes even if it kills them. The world we live in today is filled with racism and inequality. That is the pure fact of why Tom died. He died from blatant racism. The white men in this story believed they were higher and better than Tom was. This is a prime example of injustice in real life. Believing strongly that you’re better than someone doesn’t make you better than someone. As well as this, you can’t treat people like they’re animals. I treat my dog better than they treat Tom. That doesn’t seem like justice. Treating a human being like he means nothing? If someone would try to put themselves in Tom's shoes, maybe this story would’ve been different. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—” “Sir?” “—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” Atticus said this to Scout in Page 30, chapter 1. If justice is real, then why does Mayella get raped by her own father? This part of the story is extremely disgusting. How could a father rape his own daughter? This horrid act is selfish and unspeakable. This quote suggests that Bob Ewell beat his daughter “Yes Mr. Finch, I can read and I can

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Secondly, Tom is being treated this way because he is a black man in a racist society. According to the article “Exploring the Psychological Motives of Racism” By Clay Routledge, racism runs off of the fact that the whites do not want, or accept change. This clouds people’s judgement, like in the Tom Robinson case. When they look at a black man versus a white man, they determine the black man to be inferior, and prone to trouble. White people will go to extreme lengths to keep the social hierarchy in order, because they are the ones on top.

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Bob, who arguably holds the most blame for Tom Robinson’s death, drunkenly decides to kill Scout and Jem; this was to get back at Atticus for exposing his lies for what they were in the trial. Had he succeeded, he would have been responsible for three wrongful deaths, two of which were innocent children who did absolutely nothing but have a father who cross examined Bob. Bob is a borderline psychopath who was murdered in his attempt to murder two children; if that isn’t poetic justice then I don’t think there is such a thing. If Calpurnia were asked, “Was Bob Ewell’s death an example of poetic justice?”

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