To Kill A Mockingbird: A Genetic Analysis
Although the justice system can be very biased due to the color of one’s skin, the modern advancements in technologies able to be used in crimes can rightfully be used to detect the rightful culprit. One major example of this is the ascertaining of DNA, recently found in the 1950s. This type of evidence is irrefutable because it is superfluously unique to an individual (excluding the case of a twin). It can be found through a myriad of ways, including skin, saliva, semen, blood, or hair. When this ground-shaking concept came out, it was almost like the rebirth of the discovery of fingerprints, for it was so marvelous. The reliable source, Pro Con, quotes, “A remarkable feature of DNA testing is that it not only helps to convict but also serves
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In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson, a black man, was accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white woman. During the time in which the book took place, blacks were considered as being very inferior to the whites. They had just came out of slavery a little less than a century ago, and the economy was all but booming. In the justice system, a black person’s word was merely ignored, while a white person’s word was held to a much higher degree. As Atticus would later explain, “Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed,” for there was not one black person who had ever won a case at the time_____. Throughout the case, the lack of evidence made it blatantly obvious that Tom Robinson was not the culprit, but Bob Ewell, the father of Mayella, was. The story, as told by Mayella, included Tom Robinson being called to her house to bust up a chiffarobe, but Tom then raped her instead. On the other hand, Tom’s version of the story showed that Mayella was feeling lonely, so wanted the company of Tom Robinson. Since the author wrote this book in the 1950s, elements of her political and social milieu seeped into her book. The main major event occurring during the time period was the Civil Rights Movement, where African-Americans demanded equal rights. This was evident in her book, where she showed the Africans as being extra innocent and naive to further spread awareness of the horrible feats African-Americans would have to deal with and the hurdles they would have to jump. In the end, Tom Robinson was ruled as being “Guilty… guilty… guilty… guilty…” by the white jury______. One may even argue that the jury knew that Tom Robinson was innocent by the way the court case played out, but they would never support a black man in fear of being robbed of their social reputation. It was never okay for a white man
In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson, a black man, was accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white woman. During the time in which the book took place, blacks were considered as being very inferior to the whites. They had just came out of slavery a little less than a century ago, and the economy was all but booming. In the justice system, a black person’s word was merely ignored, while a white person’s word was held to a much higher degree. As Atticus would later explain, “Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed,” for there was not one black person who had ever won a case at the time_____. Throughout the case, the lack of evidence made it blatantly obvious that Tom Robinson was not the culprit, but Bob Ewell, the father of Mayella, was. The story, as told by Mayella, included Tom Robinson being called to her house to bust up a chiffarobe, but Tom then raped her instead. On the other hand, Tom’s version of the story showed that Mayella was feeling lonely, so wanted the company of Tom Robinson. Since the author wrote this book in the 1950s, elements of her political and social milieu seeped into her book. The main major event occurring during the time period was the Civil Rights Movement, where African-Americans demanded equal rights. This was evident in her book, where she showed the Africans as being extra innocent and naive to further spread awareness of the horrible feats African-Americans would have to deal with and the hurdles they would have to jump. In the end, Tom Robinson was ruled as being “Guilty… guilty… guilty… guilty…” by the white jury______. One may even argue that the jury knew that Tom Robinson was innocent by the way the court case played out, but they would never support a black man in fear of being robbed of their social reputation. It was never okay for a white man