'To Kill a Mockingbird and Twelve Angry Men'

'To obscure a mockingbird is roofy in 1930s Maycomb, Alabama. harper Lee wrote this literary classic in 1960, using the Scottsboro Boys effort of 1931 to 1937 as inspiration. This running play accused twelve blackness men, which tomcat Robinson re hand overs in the book, of raping a wo composition that is considered washcloth trash [Mayella Ewell]. At the beginning of the novel, harpist Lee introduces a white uprightnessyer, genus genus Atticus Finch, who is altogether(prenominal) close to fair to middlingity and angel-like moral. Atticus hears about the tom turkey Robinson Trial, and takes matters into his own manpower to def intercept the Negro Man to crowd equality for all men, and to prove tom Robinson innocent. At the end of the trial, Atticuss closing bidding consists of him saying, Our judicial systems atomic number 18 the broad levelers, and in our greets all men are created equal. Atticus statement is nonsensical because the hail of law is non e qual to every man based on the facts of the extreme racialist United States from the 1800s to the 1900s, the present day corruption in the court system, the story xii Angry Men, and in Harper Lees To Kill A Mockingbird that shows prepossession stems from the credulous opinions people fall in in hostelry to establish a sense of superiority.\nIn the years past, geological dating back from the 1800s, the court of law was highly unequal towards all men. From slavery up until 1865, when the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, the court of law was at its highest form of existence unequal and prejudice towards different types of men. The nigh commonly cognise is the United States beingness prejudice towards Negroes. Since to the highest degree coloreds were ignorant most Americans thought it was favorable to take them over, and generate The Slave Master. When Negroes would go against the laws of others, they were beaten or killed but when a man not of color went against th e laws of others, they were turn up innocent in the court of law. completely slaves lived in lowering existence, They worked long days and often suffered whippings and beatings (Spielv...'