The Courts Are Great Levelers In To Kill A Mockingbird

During the time and throughout modern history courts were used for justice against mostly criminals or solving problems so everything would be fair and justified. However, In To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus uses a statement “The courts are great levelers”. During this time Atticus was defending Tom Robinson from a rape crime that we were allegedly considered guilty. But due to his race, he was considered guilty Atticus wanted to give him a chance and claimed that courts are made, to treat everyone equal and Tom Robinson should be treated fairly. However, courts are not great levelers due to the fact that Tom Robinson was only found guilty due to his race, The first early law code the Hammurabi code was biased against the lower class and favored the higher class, and finally U.s court systems are corrupted because you are the only person to know if you are guilty and not guilty and false accusation can cause to false imprisonment.

During 1960 when this book was written racism was still a thing if you were black you would be discriminated. Tom Robinson was accused of raping and beating a white women Mayella Ewell. He is put on trial and Atticus has taken action and defend him, but he knew that Tom Robinson would have a slim chance of winning because of the jury. The Jury had racial views against Tom Robinson. “The jury couldn’t possibly be expected to take Tom Robinson’s against the Ewells”(Chapter 9). Mayella Ewell claimed that Tom Robinson attacked her and allegedly raped her and the Jury would obviously believe misses mayella because she is white and she has an advantage over Tom Robinson. But the jury is blind that a man with a left arm beats Mayella Ewell and Tom Robinson left arm is crippled which concludes that he is not the victim but still have the sense of accusing him of it because she did not get what she