Examples Of Adversity In To Kill A Mockingbird

One may say adversity is a misfortune, tragedy or disaster. But adversity is no more than just a hard time or rough patch, it is something that someone experiences and deals with throughout their everyday lives not realizing it. Without adversity, a person would not be who they are today. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee and explains how the effects and consequences of racism and how adversity affects the ways of life in the early nineteen thirties in the southern states. Atticus Finch is a character that is an example of adversity and how it shaped him as a person. In the ways, he is involved in being a lawyer and supporting a African American in court and experiences prejudicism in Maycomb, as a single parent. Atticus Finch wanted to display that everyone deserves a chance and that people are all equal, however the townsfolk of Maycomb discriminate if one is different in any form. Atticus Finch wanted to express his thoughts towards racism despite all the controversy, but Atticus was very much ahead of his time and many people in the town did not see eye to eye with him, yet he expresses his beliefs towards Tom

Atticus Finch expresses his logic on racism by saying, “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.” (Lee, Chapter 27). Atticus Finch is stating his personal reflections from the Tom Robinson trial. Atticus has very proper and true experiences with racism, due to how Tom’s case went and was examined by the judge and jury. By Atticus saying this to the courthouse he is giving the jury a better idea and opinion of how racism is alive and awake in Maycomb. Atticus is speaking the accuracy of how adversity is unleashing awful discrimination upon the people of