How Is Atticus Unbiased In To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird portrays African Americans in the south and how racism is impacting their lives in every way and the Jim Crow laws which only make them more judged. Since the Jim Crow laws are in effect, African Americans and white people became segregated and these lead to isolation and hatred between the two races. Judgement towards African American in the book is mainly being based on stereotypes and racial biases from the wrongly convicted Tom Robinson to the so called drunk Dolphus Raymond. Some characters in To Kill a Mockingbird have more of an open mind and are more acceptable such as Atticus Finch by serving as a lawyer to an African American man and others who have racial predujuces towards African Americans

Atticus Finch is a well-known lawyer in Maycomb Alabama who agrees to defend an African American man against charges of Rape. When Atticus agrees to take the Tom Robinson, this causes outbreak in the small town from children calling him “nigger- lover’’ (99) and taunting Atticus children by saying “Scouts daddy defends niggers” (99). Society judges Atticus and wonders why he would take such a case but Atticus believes “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view” (86) and believes in the idea of equality. If Atticus didn’t take this case, Tom Robinson would have just been another black man killed and a short lived story in Maycomb. It is right of Atticus to take this case because this stands for his beliefs on equality and

When he is called up to the stand he falsely says “I seen that black nigger yonder rutting on my Mayella”(231). His family name was ruined three generations ago and known by society as “trash” and “has no ambition to improve his life” (228). He beats and rapes his teenage daughter Mayella and when he sees her hugging Tom Robinson, he physically attacks her then rapes her again. He makes his daughter give the false truth in court and she falsely says “He hit me agin an’ agin” (241) and “He done what he was after” (242). If the judge said Tom Ewell was guilty, people would be mad and shocked as to why a white man is to be sentenced to jail instead of a black man. The only reason he isn’t found guilty of raping his daughter is because he is a white man. Atticus explains this injustice to Jem by saying “In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins