Finn, Emmanuel, Haaris, Zesh Theme: Justice Finn, Emmanuel, Haaris, Zesh

Part 1: School Pg. 20 – “Miss Caroline caught me writing and told me to tell my father to stop teaching me. “Besides”, she said. “We don’t write in the first grade, we print. You won’t learn to write until you’re in the third grade.” This could be considered as injustice because Scout is being penalized being more academically inclined than her peers. Writing is a good thing to do, and she is being prevented from doing it by her teacher. Also, she is told to tell her father to stop teaching her. This is injustice because when Scout reads and writes with her father, it brings her joy and happiness. She is now being told to end this. Her progress is being hindered to match the progress of her classmates. This is injustice as everyone is different and everyone should be allowed to work at their own pace.

School Pg. 24 – “Jean Louise, I’ve had about enough of you this morning.”……. “You’re starting off on the wrong foot in every way my dear. Hold out your hand.” Scout is being hit on the hand with a ruler as a punishment. She didn’t do anything wrong intentionally. She was only trying to be helpful, but may have come across as chatty in the process. This is injustice because it could be considered that the actions of Miss Caroline are an abuse of her authority over Scout. She hit her ‘half a dozen’ times. One hit would have sufficed.

School Pg 30 – “Watch your step, Burris … I’d soon’s kill you as look at you.” Miss Caroline suffered a lot of verbal abuse from Burris Ewell. He was being dreadfully rude to the class as a whole, and very disrespectful to Miss Caroline. Justice is served her as she is defended by Little Chuck, and later, the whole class tries to comfort her. Justice is also served her as Burris being sent out of the classroom, symbolizes a blue jay being got rid of. This betters the classroom environment, benefiting all of the children there.

Aunt Alexandra’s House Pg 90 – “When I begged Atticus… [he said] we were guests, and we sat where she told us to sit.” They have no power and are being bossed around by Aunt Alexandra and they can’t do anything about it

Trial Pg 216 – “Shut your mouth, sir!... say it under the oath and at the proper time” Judge follows the court rules and doesn’t allow Link Deas to interrupt (fair trial)

Part 2: Trial Pg 218 – “you felt sorry for her?” This is where Tom is being accused of feeling sorry for a white woman and is being discriminated for being coloured.

Justice in the trial Justice isn’t shown as the wrong person is sent to prison which shows how even when all the evidence is pointed in Tom Robinsons favour the white superiority shows that he had no chance at the start as just being blamed for the crime and being a coloured skin would mean that you are guilty for the crime.

Justice in the trial The colour of the skin determines the court case in my view as when Bob Ewell comes to the stand he Is laughing and joking with the judge saying “that’s m’name, cap’n” and if a coloured folk would say this it would be made a great deal.

Trial Pg 233 – “Guilty … guilty … guilty … guilty” Tom’s being unfairly accused of something he clearly didn’t do

Arthur killing Bob Pg 304 – “Bob Ewell fell on his knife” (Said by Heck Tate) They try to cover up what actually happened and give Arthur some justice because he rid the town of a harmful person (a bluejay) Ewells are given justice because Bob was an abusive alcoholic

Arthur killing Bob Pg 304 – “it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird” Scout realises that Arthur isn’t a threat to society and links the harmless mockingbirds to Arthur who saved the children