To Kill A Mockingbird Cases

The idea of To Kill a Mockingbird is to show how characters and people are not always what we initially believe them to be. In the story, there are multiple cases where people were judged and treated differently because they assumed grim things about them. One of the cases was with Boo Radley, people assumed bad things about him because he only came out at night. Another case was Tom Robinson. When he was on trial, everyone thought he was guilty because of the color of his skin. My last reason is with Dolphus Raymond. Everyone assumed he was drunk because he had mixed children. Boo Radley was treated differently because he never went out in the daylight. Most people thought that he was evil and that he had stabbed his parents in the legs with scissors. The book says in

At first Scout and Jem thought that Boo was giving them a bunch of things for nothing in return, but after walking Boo home and standing on his porch she realized that in return for everything he gave them, they gave him a second family. The second way this was shown was through Tom Robison. Tom was sent to court accused of raping Mayella. Even though there was no way he could have done it because of his unworking arm, everyone still said that he was guilty of the crime. During the trial, Atticus exposed Mayella and Bob Ewell’s story as a lie; everyone still chose to sentence Tom for the crime. The story says, “A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted, and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robison” (chapter 21). Even though they knew he was innocent, they still voted him guilty because of the color of his skin. My final example is Dolphus Raymond. Raymond was a white man who had mixed children, which caused people to assume bad things about him. He decided to make everyone think he was a drunk just so they would have a reason as to why he was with a black