Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee - 1436 Words

This book is a story that revolves around a girl named Scout Finch. Scout has a brother named Jem, a father named Atticus, and a friend named Dill. The characters live during the 1930s in a town in the southern United States called Maycomb that is filled with drama, racism, and mean old women. In the story, â€Å"To Kill A Mockingbird† by Harper Lee, there is a girl named Scout who acts as the narrator of the story. The key events in the story are about either Scout’s childhood, or about Atticus’s job as a lawyer, who had to defend a black man named Tom Robinson against a white woman who claims that she was harassed by Tom. In the end, Boo Radley helps Jem and Scout after they are attacked by Bob Ewell. The three main characteristics in the†¦show more content†¦During this time, racism was very popular in the southern United States, especially in court. In a case with a black man vs. a white woman, it is almost guaranteed that the winner is white, despit e the evidence, or lack of, to support their claims. The truth is that every racial group has some people who are considered immoral. You know the truth, and the truth is: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women--black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire. (Lee 273) In this quote, Atticus tells the court the truth about everyone and the reason people who are racist are not open-minded. Atticus explains that the jury’s decision should not be affected by the color of the defendant’s skin. A white man could have done the same supposed crime that a black man also committed, but the jury would have made a different decision based solely on the fact that a black man was accused for a crime. Atticus also claims that a court is the best place to be open-minded. But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal---there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller,