Have you ever wondered why people are treated differently for something they can’t control, like skin color, gender, or race? This treatment is a persistent shadow in history, and it can be seen throughout the Robinson family. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the Robinsons exhibit some ways that black people struggle to feel involved in their town. Maycomb largely divided its people through racism, and the Robinson family were the ones publicly victimized the most in the novel. Lee uses this family to show that social inequality and division are complex and can affect anyone. Now to go further into that thought, Maycomb demonstrates social inequalities in multiple ways, including sexism, social classing, and the main one shown, racism. …show more content…
Her father then made up a sick lie, implying that Robinson raped his daughter. Tom Robinson must go to trial for this, and basically cannot win due to the unequalness of Maycomb. It was a white man v. s. a black man’s word, a word. As Tom Robinson’s trial was coming to an end, and his lawyer had made many adequate remarks, everyone already had an idea of who was going to win. In the book, Scout internally claims to herself, “A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted, and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson” (282). There was no chance of Tom winning against Mr. Ewell, and this just proves the discrimination of skin color. After he was sentenced to jail, for something he didn’t do, the disappointment from the black section in the court was obvious. The black section of the sleeve. Even in the courtroom, where everyone is supposed to be equal, there is segregation. And even though the racism is obvious throughout the whole case, only a few white people seemed to be ashamed. Maycomb is highly discriminatory and they show it over and over again, and an example of them dividing society is how they treated Tom Robinson’s