Examples Of Justice In To Kill A Mockingbird

Justice is something that all people want while inside a courtroom. But did you know it wasn’t always that easy to have? During the 1930s, the judicial system wasn’t fair at all. This mostly applied to people of color. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee delivers important messages to the reader through characters in her story. Lee uses Atticus as a delivery boy to deliver things like empathy, bravery, and justice throughout the novel that even kids in a classroom could pick up on.
Throughout the story, Lee uses Atticus to deliver important messages, one being empathy. An example can be found around the beginning of the book when Atticus says, “ ‘First of all, if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with

Proof of this can be found when the author says, “ With movements so swift they seemed simultaneous, Atticus’s hand yanked a ball-tipped lever as he brought the gun to his shoulder. The rifle cracked. Tim Johnson leaped, flopped over and crumpled on the sidewalk in a brown-and-white heap. He didn’t know what hit him ” (6). Atticus takes out the dog with a single shot, showing his kids something they’d never seen him do. The author delivers bravery through Atticus shooting the “rabid dog” when no one else wanted to. He did it because he knew it had to be done, which appears later on when he is the only one to defend Tom Robinson. Bravery can also be displayed in this next quote: “ Nobody got out. We saw Atticus look up from his newspaper. He closed it, folded it deliberately, dropped it in his lap, and pushed his hat to the back of his head. He seemed to be expecting them ” (10). In this quote, Atticus goes to the jail because he knew there was a lynch mob coming for Tom Robinson. Lee presents Atticus as a brave man who wants to protect Tom Robinson from the lynch mob that wanted to take his life. A man who leaves the safety of his home to protect an innocent man who would’ve died hadn’t he been there. In these quotes, Lee displays bravery through how different people handled racism during this

One prime example can be found in Chapter 20 of the novel when Atticus says “ ‘But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal – there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest J.P. Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal’ ” (12). This quote is part of Atticus’s closing statement, using people that were more intelligent than others, but they were all equal in court. Lee uses this to show that in the early-mid 1930’s, equality for all men was found inside a courtroom. Another prime example can be found a couple of chapters later when Atticus says “ ‘Jem, see if you can stand in Bob Ewell’s shoes a minute. I destroyed his last shred of credibility at that trial, if he had any to begin with. The man had to have some kind comeback, his kind always does. So if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that’s something I’ll gladly take. He had to take it out on somebody and I’d rather it be me than that houseful of children out there. You understand?’ ” (13). Atticus truly cares about Bob Ewell’s