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The classic book, to kill a mockingbird tells the tale of “a simple love story”. This book portrays the ignorance that some people have towards people with dark skin. You will now read about Maycomb County’s treatment of Tom Robinson, Scouts treatment of Boo Radley, and finally children vs. adult’s concepts of right and wrong. The county of Maycomb treated Tom Robinson very unfairly because he wasn’t given a fair trial. Atticus did an amazing job at proving Tom’s innocence although; the jury didn’t like the idea of a black man winning a trial. Even when Miss Mayela claimed that her attacker was left hand dominant, and Atticus gave the example of tom not being able to catch the glass with his left hand because he had gotten it caught in a cotton gin the jury still found him guilty. The black people in Maycomb were well aware that they weren’t getting equal rights as the white people. As Harper Lee explains on page 195, when Atticus asked tom Robinson why he was scared of Miss Mayela he replied, “Mr. Finch, if you was a nigger like me you’d be scared too.” In the beginning of the story Scout and Jem portrayed Boo Radley as being a monster that eats squirrels and kills people’s chickens and household pets. Dill’s mother even told them that Boo stabbed his father in the leg with scissors. Jem described him on page 9 as being “six and a half feet tall, dined on raw squirrels and cats, a jagged scar across his face, yellow rotten teeth, and that he drooled most of the time”. “Lets try to make him come out I’d like to see what he looks like.” Dill says on page 13. Although at the end of the story scout finds out that Boo Radley had saved her and Jems lives. Boo Radley is a great example of a mockingbird. The difference between children and adults concept of right and wrong is that children are more sensitive to wrong doings than adults are because they haven’t seen as many. Adults are more used to seeing wrong doings than kids because they have been around longer. This makes them desensitized to it and they just see it as being a way of life. An example of this is when Atticus says on page 213; “They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it seems that only children weep.” In conclusion, Maycomb County treated Tom Robinson very unfairly because he wasn’t given a fair trial. Scout and Jem portrayed Boo Radley as being a monster, then later found out that he had saved both of their lives. Finally children have a better sense of right and wrong. They are more sensitive to wrong doings because they haven’t seen as many.