Atticus Finch Justice

“It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it” (Martin Luther King Junior). This quote ties to To Kill A Mockingbird because justice plays such a crucial role in racial inequality. To Atticus, justice means always telling the truth, being truthful, and being respectful. Bob Ewell scowls at justice and believes nothing is fair, and Scout and Dill believe that justice is where equality is allowed in the world and that sometimes the wrongs people commit can be overlooked. In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, justice plays a critical role in helping better comprehend

Atticus is nearly fifty years old and he has a difficult task, to defend Tom Robinson, a twenty-five year old black man who is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Mayella is a white woman at the age of nineteen, who is accusing Tom Robinson of a first degree crime. Atticus makes a controversial speech close to the ending of the trial, which makes people think of justice in an unusual way. “You know the truth, and the truth is this: some negros lie, some negros are immoral, some negro men are not to be trusted around our women-black or white. But this truth applies to the human race and no particular race of men” (Lee 273.) This line changed the opinion of Tom Robinson to everyone who was in the courtroom. This made everyone in the room look at this case differently, and conclude that Tom might not be the person they are looking for. Atticus said something else

Scout is only about the age of six, and Dill is roughly seven when all of this happens. At first Scout and Dill do not really ponder about this trial. Before the trial begins, they could not care less about it. It was not until it started drawing attention and getting more popular each day until they both realized it was a major controversy. Not only did they change their minds about what was going to happen following the trial, along the way their thoughts about justice changed as well. “That old Mr. Gilmer doin’ him thataway, talking so hateful to him-[...]The way that man called him ‘boy’ all the time an’ sneered at him an’ looked around at the jury every time he answered-[...] It ain’t right, somehow it ain’t right to do ‘em that way”(Lee 265-266). This quote from the book shows an instance where Dill figures out what justice really means to him. To dill justice means equality and that black people,especially Tom Robinson, should be respected and treated the same as the rest of the town. Scout’s idea of justice are rather similar to Dill’s idea, they both believe that people should be free to equality. “As Atticus is to right action and fairness; as Scout is, also, to fairness, and to making sense of and mapping the world around her” (Heims 51). As this quote says, Scout believes that the world should be open to fairness, and to be open to equality and justice. “Scout first