Examples Of Racial Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird
It Starts with a Seed
As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. greatly put it “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Truly even the smallest seeds of injustice planted in the heart of even one human being can cause great consequences. Dr. King’s principal clearly manifest itself in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, as the many parents of the time in which Harper Lee set her book, brought up their children in a way that planted seeds of inequality and prejudice in the hearts of their young children. By doing little things like calling black people name or moving to the other side of the road when one of them would come down the street, many parents of the south instilled negative mindsets into their children toward African-Americans . Eventually, when full-grown these characters like Bob Ewell, since their parents had brought them up through one dimensional lenses, would live without a true sense of equality. Their skewed view of reality would eventually cause great deeds of injustice like the killing of Tom Robinson. All in all, the racial …show more content…
Through its segregation of Macomb county, negative affect on its justice system, and through the causing of unequal schooling opportunity, it greatly affects the the course of the book. But not only can the vice of racial injustice just ruin a book, it can ruin real life as well. The same types of little actions that eventually caused racism and injustice in the book can just as easily turn into habits of any man and lead them to do enormous deeds of injustice. So all people need to guard themselves from planting little seeds of injustice in the lives of other people or even their own live, for who knows even the smallest of comments can greatly change the course of history. So in the end everyone needs to watch what they say and who they spend time with, to make sure that little seeds of injustice do not get
As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. greatly put it “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Truly even the smallest seeds of injustice planted in the heart of even one human being can cause great consequences. Dr. King’s principal clearly manifest itself in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, as the many parents of the time in which Harper Lee set her book, brought up their children in a way that planted seeds of inequality and prejudice in the hearts of their young children. By doing little things like calling black people name or moving to the other side of the road when one of them would come down the street, many parents of the south instilled negative mindsets into their children toward African-Americans . Eventually, when full-grown these characters like Bob Ewell, since their parents had brought them up through one dimensional lenses, would live without a true sense of equality. Their skewed view of reality would eventually cause great deeds of injustice like the killing of Tom Robinson. All in all, the racial …show more content…
Through its segregation of Macomb county, negative affect on its justice system, and through the causing of unequal schooling opportunity, it greatly affects the the course of the book. But not only can the vice of racial injustice just ruin a book, it can ruin real life as well. The same types of little actions that eventually caused racism and injustice in the book can just as easily turn into habits of any man and lead them to do enormous deeds of injustice. So all people need to guard themselves from planting little seeds of injustice in the lives of other people or even their own live, for who knows even the smallest of comments can greatly change the course of history. So in the end everyone needs to watch what they say and who they spend time with, to make sure that little seeds of injustice do not get