To Kill A Mockingbird Inequality Analysis

To Kill A Mockingbird: Inequality According to Merriam-Webster, inequality is defined as “the quality of being unequal or uneven”. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird inequality is brought up in many places. In particular, the African-American population faces racial biases. Furthermore, in the book Tom Robinson, a respected humble African-American is accused of raping Mayella Ewell an unhappy, and lonely white girl. The poor citizens in Maycomb, Alabama face different inequalities. For example, the Cunninghams and Ewell families, even though they are both poor they are treated differently the Cunninghams are poor but honest, and hardworking while the Ewells are considered trash, and lazy. Social inequality in To Kill A Mockingbird is augmented by the woman, the poor, and the black residents which are considered inferior to the other residents. Harper Lee the author of To Kill A Mockingbird shows racial bias in many places. In particular racial bias is shown in page (220) “in our courts, when it’s a white man's word against a black man’s, the white white man always wins”. This shows that the court

The book shows the underlying truth of how these people were treated in the 1960s. Social inequality in the woman and black people has gotten way better know than it was in the 1960s but there is still changes that need to happen. The gap of inequality in the poor and the rich in America is still increasing. In order to fix these problems in our community, we have to start educating the little kids. These changes won’t come anytime soon but as soon as we start to educate the little ones the better the future will be. We have to start now and educate the little ones before it is too late. Sonia Sotomayor a supreme court justice once said: “Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal