To Kill A Mockingbird Fairness

Everyone just wants a fair chance and to be treated equally, but in "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee that isn't always the case. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is about a little girl named Scout, Growing up in the town of Maycomb in Maycomb county and the many ups and downs of being the town lawyers daughter. She's growing up and living in a town where people are treated differently based upon their status in the town and not based on who they are as people.

In the town of Maycomb people aren't always treated based on how nice they are to everyone or how much good they do for the town, people are constantly judged by the color of their skin or how much money they make. In "To Kill a Mockingbird" Scout says " 'Miss Caroline, he's a Cunningham.'

'What, Jean Louise?' I thought I had made things sufficiently clear. It was clear enough to the rest of us: Walter Cunningham was sitting there lying his head off... The Cunningham's never took anything they can't pay back... They don’t have much, but they get along on it." (20) Scout is making inferences and assumptions about the Cunninghams, the Cunninghams aren't treated equal because their social status in the town is that they are just the poor farmers. "I asked Atticus if Mr. Cunningham would ever pay us. 'Not in money,' Atticus said 'but before the years out I'll have been paid. You watch.'"(20) The Cunninghams are actually good people, and they always do pay back what they owe, even if it's not in money, they will do work around the yard or help you out anyway they can but because they are poor they have a lower status and they aren't treated equally all the time.
Atticus Finch, Scouts father teaches Scout a good lesson she needs to follow to not judge people based on what you see with your eyes, Atticus says "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb in his skin and walk around in it." (30) this quote is a positive outlook Atticus has, that more people in Maycomb County should have.

That you can't judge people off of appearance, like their skin color or how much money they make. In Maycomb the majority of the people don’t really follow this and In the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" Tom Robinson says "Mr. Finch, if you was a N***er like me, you'd be scared, too." (195) proving black men aren't treated equally, and that they have a lower status, because they feel like they have to walk around scared of the people with a higher status than

him.
Tom Robinsons case is a good example of inequality, in the book the entire trial is not equal or fair, Tom Robinson is not allowed a fair chance because he is a black man, even though all evidence points to him being Innocent.

" I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: 'Guilty...guilty...guilty...guilty...' (211) I peeked at Jem: his hands were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each 'guilty' was a separate stab between them." Many people including Atticus, scout and Jem were all hurt to the fact that Tom had been charged guilty because he's innocent. " 'It ain't right' he muttered, all the way to the corner... 'No son, it's not right" (212) Jem and Atticus said. This is yet again another example of peoples statuses in the town being higher than the other, although the Ewells were poor too they still had higher power than a black man does and that is not

equal.
The people of Maycomb aren't always treated equally and the moral of the story is that the blacks are lower class than the poor white folk but the poor white folk are lower than the middle class folk which are then lower than the rich people of the town, so everyone in Maycomb has a status and you are judged based on which category you fit in to. There is no equal and the people with a lower status are misjudged even if they are good people, just because of their status in society or the town of Maycomb.