The book reveals the reality of social inequality through many of the characters and through many events that occurred throughout the book. Some are from judging a person on how they look and act or by their skin color. But as you have read, Atticus makes it clear to his children that racism exists by leaving them with this message: “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash” (Lee
The book reveals the reality of social inequality through many of the characters and through many events that occurred throughout the book. Some are from judging a person on how they look and act or by their skin color. But as you have read, Atticus makes it clear to his children that racism exists by leaving them with this message: “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash” (Lee