1. What examples of justice and injustice are depicted in the novel? For each example give an explanation of your choice. Identify three key events from the text. Write about what perspectives or ideas these events suggest about justice?
2. Skim through the text for quotations that Atticus makes about law and justice (make sure you note page number). Write about the situation in which Atticus makes each of these statements.
3. In failing to arrest Boo Radley at the end, Sheriff Tate is breaking the law, as is Atticus, who knows the truth of Ewell's murder. Do you agree with some critics that Atticus' actions are "wrong" as well as illegal?
yes and no! I think it’s not justice, but boo did save Jem and scout from a revenge that happened in court, so in return Atticus would not tell anyone about the murder of Ewell. But its injustice because Boo is getting away with murder.
4. Does Tom Robinson receive a fair trial under the law? Why or why not? Would having an all-black jury have resulted in a different verdict? Yes and no! yes because Tom Robertson is lucky he had someone looking out for him and support around him and having a good Lawyer (Atticus Finch) and No because the white people are being pretty rude to him in court, even though he may be black, they have no respect for him.
5. According to the novel, is it ever justified to act outside the law in order to ensure justice? If so, when is it justified? If not, what do you do when the law allows injustice?
Well sometimes acting outside the laws, there’s always a big enough reason why things happen, but sometimes it’s you do with helping others and realizing that they’re going to put up with the consequences.
6. What's the novel's take on the American legal system? What are its strengths, and what are its weakness?
If you do a crime or an assault, will have to go to court and if you were black you had that weakness for being not white, so doing the right thing or wrong thing, the whites wouldn’t appreciate them. The whites usually win, they have the overall to say as they wish. But getting away with murder is wrong, for whites and blacks.
7. What are some examples which show how justice (not punishment) is served outside the confines of a courtroom in Maycomb? How is that justice administered?
Their deaths cancel each other out and a bit of justice outside of court. The death of Ewell is poetic justice for the crimes that he had committed, including to her daughter, and what he was going to do to Jem and Scout.
- At the start of the movie, when Jem was telling Dill Harris the story about Boo stabbing his dad in the and so for his punishment, was Boo getting locked up in his room? To me that’s injustice considering he didn’t do anything extremely bad, but also putting roomers out saying he’s dangerous, when no one has seen him for 15 years since the accident.
- When Atticus helps the niggero’s when nobody else does, helping make a state towards Tom Robertson and helping put justice in the right hands?
- Injustice was when boo killed the man Robert Ewell, but also justice for saving Jem and Scouts lives.
2. Skim through the text for quotations that Atticus makes about law and justice (make sure you note page number). Write about the situation in which Atticus makes each of these statements.
- Somehow it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day. Pg 5
- Atticus: until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.'" Pg 30
3. In failing to arrest Boo Radley at the end, Sheriff Tate is breaking the law, as is Atticus, who knows the truth of Ewell's murder. Do you agree with some critics that Atticus' actions are "wrong" as well as illegal?
yes and no! I think it’s not justice, but boo did save Jem and scout from a revenge that happened in court, so in return Atticus would not tell anyone about the murder of Ewell. But its injustice because Boo is getting away with murder.
4. Does Tom Robinson receive a fair trial under the law? Why or why not? Would having an all-black jury have resulted in a different verdict? Yes and no! yes because Tom Robertson is lucky he had someone looking out for him and support around him and having a good Lawyer (Atticus Finch) and No because the white people are being pretty rude to him in court, even though he may be black, they have no respect for him.
5. According to the novel, is it ever justified to act outside the law in order to ensure justice? If so, when is it justified? If not, what do you do when the law allows injustice?
Well sometimes acting outside the laws, there’s always a big enough reason why things happen, but sometimes it’s you do with helping others and realizing that they’re going to put up with the consequences.
6. What's the novel's take on the American legal system? What are its strengths, and what are its weakness?
If you do a crime or an assault, will have to go to court and if you were black you had that weakness for being not white, so doing the right thing or wrong thing, the whites wouldn’t appreciate them. The whites usually win, they have the overall to say as they wish. But getting away with murder is wrong, for whites and blacks.
7. What are some examples which show how justice (not punishment) is served outside the confines of a courtroom in Maycomb? How is that justice administered?
Their deaths cancel each other out and a bit of justice outside of court. The death of Ewell is poetic justice for the crimes that he had committed, including to her daughter, and what he was going to do to Jem and Scout.