Racial Injustice in To Kill a Mockingbird (Essay Sample)

They killed the black man. Now days, we are seeing not seeing lot of racism But in 1960 they are lot of racisim are happening between 2009. To kill a mockingbird was set in the maycomb, alabama where harper lee was the writer of the book to kill a mockingbird and was born in 1930s. The necessity for compassion in the book To Kill a Mockingbird was portrayed adquently using racial injustice. Harper lee, In to kill a mockingbird uses character’s actions and emotions to show empathy between unlikley people.

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, She delineates the ongoing struggle towards racial equality by describing about white people’s opinion. For example: "She was white, and she tempted a N****. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man. Not an old Uncle, but a strong young N**** man. No code mattered to her before she broke  it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards." (Atticus, 231) This clearly shows that mayella is white and she broke the unwritten law that kissing a young black man which is illegal  at that time she didn’t saw any laws before even breaking it. At the time the book was written they were lot of racism going on in particular:  "the one place where a man ought to get a square deal in a courtroom, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into the jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash." ( Atticus, 252)There is one place in the world called court where people nomatter of any race will have resentements into jury box. There will be a lot happening like this in real life about white people cheating black people  which is not so good. The paragraph was meant to show the racism between white people and black people that were so in that every white men tried to kill a black men and the mayella’s actions over the young black man named tom robinson and how she’s actions affected the world.

The discrimation that exists in maycomb exists beyond racial segregation and speaks to social problems that are far more widespread.- In addition: "There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life. [ Atticus, 252] :  some of the facts that doesn’t sound right but it is right for example: black people will always lose because of the racism between the black and white people. Moreover: "Which, gentlemen, we know is in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson's skin, a lie I do not have to point out to you. You know the truth, and the truth is this: some N****es lie, some N****es are immoral, some N**** men are not to be trusted around women—black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire." ( Atticus, 232) the quote shown here tells us what the type of black people are in maycomb county.  

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Justice can mean different things to different people

“People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for” (Lee, 198: Thisquote means that you don’t have to tell the unnecessary things first and necessary things second you have to just tell what they ask you to tell.  “Our courts have our faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal.” ( Atticus, 209) This is best represented as the democracy quote 

We are blessed to have an equal society now but thinking back to 1960’s, we couldn’t imagine how terrible the life of the african americans were. It makes our own heritage guilty and it is the unspoken truth of the americans during those days. Although it was hidden by american government as a dark secret, many notable books such as Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird portrayed it cleary, exposing one of the American’s most darkest and worst nightmare.