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What Are The Ethical Issues In To Kill A Mockingbird

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To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is told through the eyes of a young white girl named Scout during the Depression-era South. She recounts how her father, who is a lawyer, has been assigned to defend a young black man who has been accused of raping a white woman. Even though Scout is a six year old, she still tries to understand why defending a black man is seen as a bad thing to the white community. Now during this time, having either light or dark skin defined everything you were; from how people treated you, to if you were guilty or not, or even to what rights you were allowed. When Atticus is told by his superior to take the case of the accused rapist, Tom Robinson, it doesn’t take both the black and white community
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