The time has finally come. The time to show many eyes Harper Lee’s representation of racism, in his book: To kill a mockingbird. In this book, Harper Lee’s representation of racism can lead to unnecessary overkill, false claims in court, unreasonable punishment. In To kill a mockingbird, false claims in court are brought up multiple times to offend against a man named Tom Robinson in court, and the man named Bob Ewell, set up his daughter named Mayella Ewell to tell multiple lies in court so that a man named Tom Robinson could be found guilty. The daughter of Bob Ewell, however, is clearly hesitant to say all, this, and eventually starts bursting in tears. Later in the book, it is revealed that Bob Ewell only did this because he did not want his daughter (whom was white) to be in love with a black man. …show more content…
The defendant in the court named Atticus Finch, did his absolute best proving to the court that Tom Robinson was indeed not guilty. For instance, he made the witness’s repeat their sayings, but only the key points so that even the simple mind of the citizens could piece it together. A white man in this time would have easily gotten out of court with all of this evidence pointed out. However, Tom Robinson is still named one word: “guilty”. Therefore, an unreasonable punishment is brought upon Tom Ewell, in the form of execution. In the next days, Tom Ewell is to be brought up for escape. But he escapes out of the building another way. Tom Robinson climbed over a fence in a hurry to leave that horrid place, but as he was making his attempt, a group of guards showed up, to shoot him off the fence, and then knock him dead. Here’s the peculiar thing though, he was shot just about seventeen times, even though only a few were needed. This is an example of overkill. Normally, this wouldn’t be the case for people in these times, except for black