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Examples Of Racial Inequalities In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the most significant themes is race and social class cause inequalities. For example, the all-white jury decided an innocent black man’s verdict, when Judge Taylor polled the group, the vote was unanimous “guilty… guilty… guilty… guilty…” (Lee 112). The white men were all considered of higher class than Tom and going into the trial they all already knew the outcome. Furthermore, Bob knew that he could use Tom to cover up his mistakes and once he got his daughter to go along, “Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed” (Lee 128). The Ewells knew that in a case of black vs. white they would for sure be innocent. Finally, after Tom’s death, many whites were inconsiderate
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