Book Comparison Post 2

I read the book To Kill a MockingBird which relates to my hobby because it takes place in America with so much racial discrimination going on in the year 1936.  The characters of the book were Atticus the father, with Scout and Jem which were white, and one of the important characters is Tom Robinson an African American that is accused by raping a little girl called Mayella. In reality the father of Mayella a white young girl later on in the story is raped by his father Bob Ewell who is uneducated and drunk most of the time.
From my point of view injustice and discrimination exists in this book, when later on in the story Tom Robinson is arrested and accused unfairly that he raped Mayella which lies along with her father Bob where Atticus who is the main protagonist becomes the attorney for Tom but is unable to help him. Due to the amount of witness which were paid to lie to the judge, Tom Robinson ends up in prison and is shot 17 times for a crime that he did not commit.

     This makes me reflect that as a young man at the age of 18 I have to be careful with young women around the age of 14-17. Why? There are so many girls that are young that look old and having a relationship with them is a big mistake because later on it does not matter the ethnicity or race they can get me or whoever in trouble. They can lie to their parents and go to police with a lie that we caused them harm such as hitting, or abusing them which the law with always be in favor of the teen girls which might ruin our life and send us to jail for the rest of our life.

   To Kill a Mockingbird is completely different from “The Power of One” because the similarities are that racism exists but the difference in the second book is that there is not anyone that is accused for something that is unfair and sent to prison for their rest of their life. From my perspective that is the big difference between the both books, because it has more similarities than differences with Discrimination playing a major role in the United States in 1936 and in South Africa.
The quote that grabbed my attention was on Chapter 18 when “Atticus pleads with Mayella to admit that there was no rape, that her father beat her. She shouts at him and yells that the courtroom would have to be a bunch of cowards not to convict Tom Robinson”, (Page 351). What I notice is that, when someone has revealed the truth and found out that this person has been denying and lying the whole time the person reaction will be yelling at everyone like crazy. Someone that lies will never recognize if they were wrong and Atticus did a good job on revealing that she had lied but unfortunately the Judge of the story was not convince and did not believe Atticus which caused Tom Robinson to be sentence in prison.