Examples Of Fairness In To Kill A Mockingbird

H.Jackson Brown Jr, once said, “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you.” In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, characters help define what fairness is. Fairness treating each other with equitability, what they deserve. There is various examples of this throughout the book. In Part one of To Kill a Mocking Bird, one lesson learned is that one should do the fair even if people disagree with it. In Part one of To Kill a Mocking Bird, one lesson learned is that one should do the fair even if people disagree with it.
Integrity is being able to act through one’s moral values. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus shows integrity when he is given the responsibility of representing Tom Robinson. While having a discussion with Scout Atticus says, “The main one is, if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town. I couldn’t represent this county in the legislator. I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again.” ( Lee 75 ). Atticus is giving Scout the lesson that he has to do what he feels is fair and right because if he doesn’t, he couldn’t live with himself. One should the right thing even if it means going through some tough times, the alternative, is humilation within oneself which is much worse than what others can say. Doing what is fair is more important than affirming others humanity especially in situations where people are being dehumanizing. This is

The world is made up of individuals, who shape it with our characteristics and our treatment of others. We are influenced by our world but we also influence it, similar to what Scout encountered by questioning everything. If we dehumanize and classify each other we are not contributing to a better world. If we treat other with fairness we get one step