"Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but the secret courts of the men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed. "(CH. 25 Pg. 244).

Atticus is a lawyer in a southern town during the great depression. He is defending a black man in a town where racism is an every day aspect of life. He knows he's lost even before the court was in session, but he fights for justice in a place where true justice was rare. The theme of the book To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is how justice is flawed, at that time. It can hurt even the purest of innocence and the guilty can win.

To understand this book very well, we must understand when it was written which was during the Civil Rights movement...