Part one of term paper
To Kill A Mockingbird “takes readers to the roots of human behavior” (Lee). It portrays how unkind people of Maycomb County could be. It shows a time when being different made life more difficult than it had to be. It was a time when people did not accept differences. It especially shows cruelty against blacks, lawyers, and the ...

Part two of term paper
... discrimination still goes on today. “Because of racism in the criminal justice system, blacks are more likely to be arrested, convicted, and given stiffer sentences” (Horne 135). When slavery had ended, “the so-called freedom lands held nothing but disappointment for most black people” (McCague 119). To Kill A Mockingbird tells of a black man being accused of raping a white woman and “in the courtroom, the white man’s word is taken over the black man’s word” (Lee 172). The ...