There are several cases of injustice in To Kill a Mockingbird. The two major ones are the injustice that is handed over to Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. When Atticus takes the case to represent Tom, we see how the people of the town show the injustice.
Tom Robinson was a black man accused of raping a white woman. During this time in Maycomb, black people were looked down upon and never trusted. Most of the people in Maycomb believed that Tom was guilty, although the evidence proved he was completely innocent.
Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.
The quote above shows injustice towards Tom Robinson because he was a black man. Atticus, Jem and Scout all knew that there was no way Tom would found innocent. Atticus knew about the injustice towards Tom, but he was powerless to stop it.
Boo Radley on the other hand, faces injustice because no one really knew him. The people of Maycomb all made up stories about what Boo really was. They judged him simply because they didn't know him.
Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but Jem and I never seen him. People said he went off at night when the moon was down, and peeped in windows. When people's azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he breathed on them. Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work. Once the town was terrorized by a series if morbid nocturnal events: people's chickens and household pets were found mutilated; although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually drowned himself in Barker's Edd, people still looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their inner suspicions.
As you read the book, you learn just how wrong the people of Maycomb are about both Tom and Boo. Tom was served injustice just because he was a black man and a white woman accused him of something. Had he been a white man, he never would have gone to trial. Tom loses his life because of this injustice. The injustice towards Boo is another case of people judging someone before getting to know them. Had it not been for Boo, Atticus would have lost his children. Jem and Scout learn valuable lessons about injustice.
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