Loss Of Innocence In To Kill A Mockingbird

Loss of Innocence Atticus had to educate his children about racism because of the trial he was working on for Tom Robinson, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing except sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119). The novels To Kill a Mockingbird and All American Boys, as well as the movies Just Mercy and A Time to Kill all show the injustice that black people face in America. Each trial caused some or many of the people involved to lose a sense of innocence that they had. Not only children matured, but the lawyers that were defending the men that were convicted of crimes that they did not

On the other hand, characters like Rashad from All American Boys faced racism directly when he was wrongfully attacked by a police officer. Racial injustice caused a loss of innocence for the people involved in the trials. The racial injustice during Tom Robinson's trial caused Scout and Jem from To Kill a Mockingbird to lose a sense of innocence. Jem and Scout were children who did not fully understand the struggles that black people faced dealing with racism, but because their father was a lawyer they got to see how unfair the justice system is toward black people and other minorities. Throughout the novel both kids learned life lessons from different people in their community. After seeing part of the trial a man said to them, “Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too” (Lee 269). This was a major turning point when Scout learned

As a new lawyer in a primarily racist town, most people believed that he would never be able to prove his defendant Carl Lee innocent for killing the two men that raped his daughter. Because he was defending a black man in Mississippi, Jake and his loved ones received threats as extreme as trying to burn his house down. He made the decision to make his wife and daughter leave the state until the trial was over for their safety (Schumacher). This shows how Jake matured when he realized how intense the trial was going to be, which directly related to the loss of innocence he had to face when going through the trial. He knew that the jury would not side with him unless they retold the story and portrayed Carl Lee’s daughter as a white child. When Jake switched the race of the girl in the story and faced the racism of the jury it represented a loss of innocence for his view on his job and the justice