In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, by Harper Lee, two characters, Jem and Scout, go through multiple lessons throughout the story. Jem and Scout are young siblings who learn about racism and integrity. The novel takes place during the Great Depression in the early 1930s. During the story a trial happens where a black man is being accused of raping a girl. Jem and Scout’s Dad is assigned to defend the man. The theme of the story tells the reader how cruel people can be. The world is full of evil. The first main evil we see in the book are white people. ¨In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life¨(Lee 220). The white men don’t think black men as people. They say the anyone is guilty if they are black, even when he is innocent. …show more content…
“It was Jem’s turn to cry. His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd.“It ain’t right,” he muttered, all the way to the corner of the square where we found Atticus waiting.” (Lee 284) Jem started to become furious because he knew that Tom was innocent even though they voted that he was guilty. The people cheered even when they knew he was innocent with the evidence that Atticus showed. Another evil can also be found in the main characters near the beginning of the story. "Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained -- if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten, his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time." (Lee 13) Jem tells Dill about Boo and making him sound evil and