The Ironic Differences Between Tom Robinson And Steven Avery

The famous book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee explores the problem of scapegoating and racism in the Southern United states during the 1930s. The book examines the intricate social and racial aspects of a small town and how a delusion of moral superiority can result in the harassment and abuse of people who are perceived as being different or outliers. We will examine the concept of scapegoating in To Kill a Mockingbird in this essay, utilising two quotes to highlight the occurrence. The trial of Tom Robinson is one of To Kill a Mockingbird's most potent instances of scapegoating.

Tom Robinson was a black man who was being accused of raping a young girl named Mayella Ewell (Lee). Before Tom Robinson ever goes to trial, the legal system and

In Lee’s book, it is shown through the innocence of a child that Tom Robinson is not guilty, and that the jury convicted him for no reason other than their own prejudiced values and pressure from other prejudiced townspeople. After the outcome of the trial a young boy named Jem questions “How could they, how could they do it?” and his father answers. “I don't know but they did, they’ve done it before tonight, and they will probably do it again.”(Lee 215).

The Scottsboro Trials and To Kill a Mockingbird In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the famous father named Atticus says “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it (Judith 2).  This quote is said during a time of intense racism. “Not long after Obama took office, the National Urban League released its 2009 State of Black America report. The findings showed that racial inequities continued in employment, housing, health care, education, criminal justice, and other areas” (Buckley 1).  This essay will primarily focus on the criminal justice area of this when discussing the Scottsboro trials and comparing the trials to the famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

Miranda Fricker dissects and examines the problems of testimonial justice and injustice, in her book, Epistemic Injustice, Power and the Ethics of Knowing. By using the characters of Marge Sherwood in The Talented Mr. Ripley and Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, Fricker draws in her audience and succinctly identifies two critical components to testimonial injustices. After examining her work, I feel her view of testimonial justice is able to be defended because people are not born to be discriminatory. Rather a person’s community and social interactions shape their development of testimonial justice, but there are ways to lessen a person’s testimonial injustice. Fricker’s argues that familiarity with people of different social identities

(207). When the holes in the Ewell’s testimony were shown to the jury they still came to the conclusion that Tom Robinson was guilty. This is like how the Scottsboro boys were convicted even when the women who had accused them had revealed that they just made it up as an excuse. Tom Robinson was affected by the outcome of the trial because he was imprisoned. This also shows that justice was not the prime factor there, but it was the color of one’s

Justice is usualy seen as an issue that has a set solution, rather than an issue based off a conditional sphere; it's viewed as an A to B process, rather than a complex mosaic that every individual may process differently. This creed can be developed within Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”. The book is a sixties historical fiction that dives into the complexities and bias regarding the complexities of justice. The most prominent examples are found in chapters 16 and 17 when Atticus defends Tom Robinson, who's a black man accused of sexually abusing a young white woman. This novel displays innocence through usage of the metaphor of a mockingbird and how it is sinful to kill one due to the lack of ill intent; within the book, this metaphor

Atticus is a highly respected lawyer known for his integrity, compassion, and unwavering commitment to justice. It is during Tom Robinson's trial, conducted in a courtroom brimming with racial bias and hostility, that Atticus's true character emerges. Despite knowing the odds are stacked against his client, Atticus fearlessly defends Tom, relying on reason, logic, and empathy to navigate the murky waters of prejudice. Through his actions, Atticus exemplifies the strength of character in the face of

The justice system has always been the heart of America. But like this country, it has many faults. Prejudice has played a major role in the shaping of this system. In the 1930’s the way a courtroom was set up was completely different from how it looks to day. In the book To Kill A MockingBird, Harper Lee shows just how different it is.

Lee uses Miss Gates’s ironic views of Hitler and Tom’s trial to show how racial prejudice causes crimes against African Americans to be considered less than crimes committed against white people. A mockingbird is then used to symbolize Tom Robinson as an innocent person wrongly convicted of a crime because of his skin color. The misunderstood characterization of Arthur Radley shows how society will let prejudice guide their imaginated view on the lives of people they don't understand. All three characters provide examples of how a preconceived opinion of one person or a whole race can cause drastic misunderstandings and

Innocence is a rare thing in a world full of guilty consciences. Set in the late 1930’s, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird accurately portrays the idea of small town life where racism ruled all, opinions spread like wildfire, and the innocent were suffering while the guilty were saved. It can be difficult to find people with honest intentions and a pure heart, which is why Tom Robinson, Mr. Raymond and Boo Radley are such significant characters in the understanding of purity within the novel. Tom Robinson was a black man convicted for a crime that he had been proven innocent for as a consequence of his ethnicity.

Perceptions are often incorrect when one is unwilling to believe or does not have all of the facts. These inaccurate perceptions can lead to false accusations, which in turn can cause an immense amount of suffering. In the case of Tom Robinson, other’s perception of him and people of his race led to a false accusation against him. More specifically, the people of the Southern town of Maycomb perceived African Americans to be uneducated and untrustworthy, thereby declaring the Negroes as inferior to themselves. When Tom Robinson ran from the Ewell home upon the arrival of Bob Ewell, the unkempt and unreliable father of the alleged rape victim, it was assumed that Robinson had done something of suspicion.

In the 1930s, if a black man was on trial there was a ample chance he would be convicted even if evidence proved he was innocent. Throughout history humans being prejudice and bias have affected the lives of thousands of people; some ending with favorable outcomes while others weren’t so fortunate. Within the book To Kill a Mockingbird the readers learn that prejudice and bias people outnumber the understanding and kind. One decision or in this case twelve decisions decide the fate for an unfortunate man. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee reveals that people often follow their biases and prejudices rather than the truth.

“Now don’t you be so confident, Mr. Jem, I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man…” (Lee 179). This quote from Reverend Sykes in To Kill a Mockingbird is a sort of summary of how and why Tom Robinson was wrongly convicted guilty. It also gives a lot of insight on race relations in this time period. Unfortunately, racism has yet to leave society.

Essay In the novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee, there are many important messages shown throughout the book. However the primary focus was set on racial prejudice that existed in the 1930s-1940’s in the fictional town of Maycomb County. The racism in the novel was very much a reality in 1930s-1940s America. A very good example of the racial prejudice that existed was in the courtroom during Tom Robinson’s trial, an innocent Negro man held against his will for a crime he did not commit.