To Kill A Mockingbird Argumentative Essay

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I, Jeremiah Finch, believe that everyone, no matter what their color, should receive justice and equal rights in court. Like Atticus says, every man should be equal at least in court, every man deserves a fair trial where his word will be believed to be as good as any others. Tom Robinson did not receive a fair trial. The no good jury decided to believe the lies of the white trash Ewells who are disgraces to Maycomb. The trial wasn’t based off of justice, evidence, an’ truth, it was based off of color. Good righteous judges and lawyers sho’ should be able to make up for the worthless men on the jury. I told all this to Miss Maudie one day after the trial, while Scout, me, and Dill was eating her famous Lane Cake. Black men just aren’t treated the same as white men down here, and I know it …show more content…

Glimmer “sir” like he was stinkin’ president. I just can’t believe the law and our court system, which claims to be righteous and fair for everyone, could permit such treatment to any man that was in court. This is why I need to become a lawyer so I can fix the ever occurring problem in our world. I believe we can and need to fix the world so the truth is not based off of how close your skin color is to snow. Miss Maudie started talkin’ real nice, tryin’ to cheer me up and kept sayin’ how how much everyone in Maycomb has done for Tom. I believe we didn’t do enough, Tom’s dead and these people won’t think twice about doin’ the same thing to the next man who gets stuck in another black verus white trial. If Maycomb still believes the trial was just another silly case like any of the others we get here in Maycomb, then we are still stuck where we began. Atticus sure seems to think that we have made baby steps over this whole ordeal, but I’m not so sure that’s gonna be enough. Nobody is moving to change the laws. I asked Atticus if the law would ever change, he said not in his years or mine. Equal rights for all seems to be more of an equal rights for

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