To Kill A Mockingbird Quote Analysis

As stated in a survey by Odyssey.Com, according to a 2004-2012 study, it was shown that juries are prone to racist sentencing. In the survey, it was revealed that black men received sentences that were twenty percent greater than that of a white man for the same crime. This survey goes to show some things have not changed since the United States segregated past. The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the two main kids, Jem and Scout, grow up in the town of Maycomb, Alabama, where their father works as a lawyer defending a black man. The children grow up being around racism and injustice, and learn many lessons. Jem and Scout learn many lessons throughout this novel such as; courage is shown in many ways, everybody deserves equality,

Atticus’ reputation was tainted in the eyes of his town, mainly the white people, because he chose to defend Tom Robinson. “Yeah, but Atticus aims to defend him, that's what I don't like about it” (Lee 218). This quote isn’t an example of someone being treated equally, but it does show how people treated Atticus unfairly. Most of the white people in Maycomb looked down on Atticus for defending black man. The quote shows the backwards mentality of the town, for being bothered that Atticus is trying to do his job and seek justice. Atticus is talked bad about behind his back but also in person. “This morning Bob Ewell stopped Atticus at the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he’d get him if it took the rest of his life” (Lee 290). This quote shows another example of how Atticus was treated unfairly when he deserved equality. All Atticus did was defend an innocent man against an alleged crime. It wasn’t necessarily wrong for Bob Ewell to be mad at Atticus because Atticus did ruin any reputation that Bob had, if any. However, it is not officially confirmed but heavily implied that Mr. Ewell beat his own daughter and put an innocent man in jail and inadvertently got him killed to cover up his own mistakes, yet Bob is mad at Atticus for exposing that about him even though it’s his own fault. A third example is when Tom Robinson is treated unfairly. The judge polled the jury, guilty (Lee 282). Tom is treated unfairly when the jury is all guilty. There was no actual evidence that Tom did anything wrong, it was only word- of- mouth statements from the Ewells. Since the Ewell’s were white they got the benefit of the doubt, while Tom was considered guilty because he was