When Dill left the courthouse in tears, it was because Tom Robinson had been “proven” guilty of crime he didn’t commit, simply because he was black. Almost all of the reliable evidence given during the trial was thrown away and in its place was the fact that the offender was black and the thought that black people were less deserving than white people. To a child who was too young to ever even have the opportunity to experience this sort of biased judgment, witnessing an obviously innocent man be sent to a place he didn’t have any business in was simply horrific. He had come to the sudden (and not mention early) realization that sometimes people die for no good reason. Most frighteningly, this newly discovered Law of Life wasn’t restricted