In Harper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird, an issue is addressed which could be considered controversial. This issue is one that everyone faces each day, no one particularly likes to suffer from it, yet we often do it to others. This issue is injustice, and it was ever-present in To Kill A Mockingbird . Some of the types of injustice confronted in this novel include, racial injustice, religious injustice, and discrimination of women. Harper Lee often offers suttle remedies that would put an end to the constant injustices in the novels diverse society.
The greatest case of injustice involves Tom Robinson who was falsely accused of a crime that he never attempted, nor intended to. Tom's view of the actions that lead up to the trail were not believed because of his race, which in all details the way society miss-treated African Americans during the time period the novel was set in.
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Another issue of injustice confronted in To Kill A Mockingbird is that of religious...