To+Kill+a+Mockingbird

In Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" you there is a lot of injustice and rumors that are bad and untrue. For example how there is a man who eats squirrels and peeks through the windows, and about a man who is convicted of rape with only one arm. A man with one usable arm is Tom Robinson. He is an African-American young man who is convicted of raping Miss Mayella Ewell. Even though everyone knows he didn't do it, because Atticus had shown that Tom was an innocent man, and made the Ewell family look like liars and fools. The town and the jury said he was guilty. They did this because they were told of “the evil assumption that all Negroes lie, that all negroes are basically immoral beings that, all Negros men are not trusted around our women" pg.204, as explained by Atticus. Therefore because of this he was sent to jail. However on the way there he ran and they shot at him and killed him.

Another example of rumors and injustice of the Town of Maycomb County is their treatment towards Boo Radley. They say that he eats squirrels, peeps through your window and that his eyes pop out of their socket. However this is all a lie, he doesn't harm anyone; instead he leaves presents for Jem and Scout. Therefore he is like a Mockingbird they do no harm they just make people feel nice and warm when they start singing. If it's a "sin to kill a mockingbird" pg.90; it's a sin to harm Boo Radley as Scout finds this out at the end of the story when he saves Jem and scout from the pocket knife of Mr. Ewell

A way to fix the problem of rumors and injustice is if Jem "and eleven other boys like him" would be the jury, "Tom would be a free man." pg. 220 as explained by Atticus. If the children did run the whole system back in the 1930 there wouldn’t be any racism and the world would be a better place. However when the jury is filled with old white plantation owners, the consequences towards a black man differ. As you can see there was a lot of injustice, rumors, and racism back in the 1930's and Harper Lee did a good job in explaining it, in different ways. In conclusion you can see that the consequences differ when you hate or fear someone you haven’t met.