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Examples Of Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Every day, there are good people that get hurt for actions they never committed, but because they are different they don't get treated the same way which makes them serve a punishment they never did. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, there are a lot of different types of prejudice. Consequently, a lot of people suffer from it like Tom Robinson, who experiences racism and problems in the legal system which ended up in him being killed. During this novel, Tom Robinson is a really nice man who helps everyone and cares about others, but because of racism, he got his life taken away from him even if he is innocent. This is why this makes him the biggest victim of a Mockingbird.

To start off, Tom Robinson is sentenced for a crime he not only did not commit but physically could not do. Atticus has …show more content…

He even demonstrated to the jury that Tom was physically incapable of doing the crime. He had done everything in his power to give Tom the best chance of being the first black person to be innocent, but it was still up to the judge to make the decision. After a long time of waiting, Judge Taylor has come to a decision “Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty.” (Page 211) 21. Atticus is in disbelief and knows that the only reason Tom is sentenced to prison is because Judge Taylor is scared of what can happen to him if he is the first person to state that a black man is innocent so he didn't. In addition, the fact that the jury never picked a black man to be innocent proves that Tom suffered from racism, and because of it all the n***** lost hope that one day there will be justice. Jem and Reverend Sykes are

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