Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, proves that race does not define a person’s character. Living in the racist county of Maycomb, Alabama is Scout, a young white girl who trying to figure out the world around her; the Ewell family, a white family living in poverty; and Tom Robinson, an African American accused by Mr. Ewell. Maycomb’s views on African Americans consists of the black people being terrible people who will always be at the bottom of the social structure when in reality, African Americans can be more kind – hearted than the white folk. Evidently, Scout states that “Tom Robinson was probably the only person who was ever decent to [Mayella]” (Lee 192). Harper Lee depicts Tom Robinson as defying Maycomb’s status quo when he