“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”(119) In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a mockingbird is a representation of the innocence of a child that has yet to be corrupted by the evil, hypocrisy, and injustice in adult society. Growing up in Alabama in the 1930’s, Scout and Jem Finch and their friends Boo Radley and Dill Harris, discover just how terrible adult society can be. Scout’s and Jem’s father, Atticus Finch, is one of the only adults they can look up to. Atticus is a lawyer and he ends up having to represent a colored man in court. Dealing with
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I looked up, and his face was vehement. ‘There's nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who'll take advantage of a Negro's ignorance.’”(273) Atticus may be a grown man, but he is not unfamiliar with the redundant amount of evil in adult society. He knows that racism is one of the purest forms of evil, and that discriminating and taking advantage of someone out of spite of their race is immoral and wrong. Scout and Jem’s father believes in the equality of races, and does everything in his power to enforce that and imprint it into children’s young, innocent …show more content…
The quotes “Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed,” (323) and “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.” (295) further prove the injustice in adult society. In the 1930’s, racism was a catalyst for a lot of corruption in the criminal justice system. Back then, many people practiced racism, including children, and didn’t see it as an injustice, but Atticus did. He was aware of the corruption and he wanted it to stop; in turn, he showed as many children that he could that racism was a terrible thing and they had the power to stop
I looked up, and his face was vehement. ‘There's nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who'll take advantage of a Negro's ignorance.’”(273) Atticus may be a grown man, but he is not unfamiliar with the redundant amount of evil in adult society. He knows that racism is one of the purest forms of evil, and that discriminating and taking advantage of someone out of spite of their race is immoral and wrong. Scout and Jem’s father believes in the equality of races, and does everything in his power to enforce that and imprint it into children’s young, innocent …show more content…
The quotes “Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed,” (323) and “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.” (295) further prove the injustice in adult society. In the 1930’s, racism was a catalyst for a lot of corruption in the criminal justice system. Back then, many people practiced racism, including children, and didn’t see it as an injustice, but Atticus did. He was aware of the corruption and he wanted it to stop; in turn, he showed as many children that he could that racism was a terrible thing and they had the power to stop