How Does Bob Ewell Show Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird

In a world full of racism would you choose to be a Bob Ewell, or an Atticus Finch? In the book to Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee the author discuss a person of color wrongly accused for crimes he never committed. In this racially based time period, this book looks into the lives of Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch, and Bob Ewell as we view the injustices that were commonplace in that day and age. After Bob Ewell attacks his daughter and accuses Tom Robinson of assaulting and raping her out of spite, the lawyer Atticus Finch is the only one who will stand up for justice. Despite the fact that the Civil Rights movement ended in the year 1968 we still see examples today of African American’s being treated as scapegoats for the crimes of others. Tom Robinson, a husband and father to three children spent his days working the cotton fields. While on his way home from work Mayella Ewell ask for
Capable of loving everyone no matter what they looked like he had no hesitations in taking up defense of Tom Robinson. “Before I am through, I intend to jar the jury a bit - I think we’ll have a reasonable chance on appeal, though. I really can’t tell at this stage, Jack. You know, I’d hope to get through life without a case of this kind, but John Taylor pointed at me and said, ‘you’re it’.” (100) Atticus explains to his brother Jack. He believes that even though this is what his career is, the true tragedy is that something like this has happened in his home. When people discover that Atticus is indeed representing a person of color they started to talk. One day while in school a student called Atticus a nigger-lover and it deeply upset his daughter Scout. “You aren’t a nigger-lover, then, are you?” Atticus responded with “I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody…” (124) This further shows why Atticus felt the need to stand up for Tom, and in that period of history, loving everyone was not as easy as it