In any city there is social injustice, whether it be race, gender, class, or any other defining factor a person, there is always someone who think they are superior to others. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird she writes about a the injustices in a small town called Maycomb through the eyes of an impressionable little girl named Scout. Scout experiences racism, sexism, and hate against poorer people. In The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas writes about a girl named Starr who also see’s injustices in her more modern town Garden Heights. Starr experiences racism, and cultural appropriation. In both of these books the author writes about a person dealing social injustices that will be relevant to everyone at some point. Scout encounters social injustices at school and even unknowingly becomes apart of the problem as well. She gets her first impression of school before she gets to school when her brother tells her they cant hang out at school like they did at home because she was a girl and in a different garde. Later she herself tells Miss Caroline, her teacher, about the Cunninghams being poorer than everyone else. Scout is experiencing the injustices herself in both …show more content…
As Maycomb is a majority white community during a time when segregation was just made illegal, the legal system still had some flaws. Scout watched as Tom Robinson, a black man, be convicted of a crime without evidence other than people words who could easily have been lying to cover up some other problem. She saw as her father Atticus had all of the evidence to convict Mr.Ewell but instead the court ruled Tom Robinson guilty because he was a black man and they couldn’t not convict him over Mr.Ewell who was the lowest of the low in their community. Mr.Ewell was imprisoned because he was white. Scout encountered social injustices in a place that she most likely wasn’t expecting to see since it is supposed to be a fair trial for all