In the Harper Lee novel To Kill A Mockingbird, we are lead through the lives of two young siblings, Scout and Jem, during two significant years of their childhood. The story is narrated by Scout, the hot-headed daughter of local lawyer Atticus Finch. In court, Atticus represents a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. The outcome of this trial eventually leads to the demise of the defendant. “Shoot at all the …showed first 75 words of 693 total…

…showed last 75 words of 693 total…In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee has shown his anger at the gross injustices that were committed during this period of wide spread racial hatred in the Southern states of the USA. The situations in the novel still occur today, with workers for peace being assassinated just for wanting to have a safe existance (example: Yitzhak Rabin). Tom and Arthur were punished only for being different to the norm, and this was a sin.