To Kill a Mockingbird and Twelve Angry Men

To assassinate a Mockingbird is set in 1930s Maycomb, Alabama. harper Lee wrote this literary classic in 1960, using the Scottsboro Boys Trial of 1931 to 1937 as inspiration. This struggle accused twelve total darkness men, which Tom Robinson represents in the book, of raping a wo human beings that is considered snow-clad gimcrack [Mayella Ewell]. At the beginning of the novel, Harper Lee introduces a white lawyer, Atticus Finch, who is each(prenominal) most mateity and angel-like moral. Atticus hears almost the Tom Robinson Trial, and takes matters into his own pass to defend the Negro humanness to promote equality for all men, and to prove Tom Robinson innocent. At the end of the trial, Atticuss closing instruction consists of him saying, Our addresss be the great levelers, and in our hooks all men are created equal. Atticus statement is incorrect because the dally of law is not equal to every man found on the facts of the extreme anti-Semite(a) United States from the 1800s to the 1900s, the present solar day corruption in the act system, the story Twelve barbaric Men, and in Harper Lees To Kill A Mockingbird that shows parti pris stems from the naive opinions people develop in order to hand a sense of superiority.\nIn the days past, dating bet on from the 1800s, the court of law was extremely unequal towards all men. From thraldom up until 1865, when the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, the court of law was at its highest go of be unequal and disfavor towards different types of men. The most normally known is the United States being prejudice towards Negroes. Since most coloreds were ignorant most Americans thought it was slack to take them over, and become The hard worker Master. When Negroes would go against the laws of others, they were beaten or killed but when a man not of color went against the laws of others, they were turn out innocent in the court of law. All slaves lived in impenetrable existence, They w orked long days and lots suffered whippings and beatings (Spielv...