Socialising is a very complicated process, for we often make unjustified assumptions that lead to misunderstandings or even worst, it might even cause the innocents to suffer. In “To Kill a Mocking Bird,” it was demonstrated a number of times, both in court and in every day life, often caused by people’s limited observations skills causing misjudgements; Jem and Scout made that mistake, thinking his dad is “old and feeble” and maybe useless but in reality he is actually a great shooter who doesn’t like to boast about his talents. I truly admire the Atticus’s personality, he was not thought highly by his town folks because he was humble and was not bind by the “fashion” in town. Harper Lee had uncovered the truth of human nature; because of Atticus’s appearance and modesty, he was not justified fairly.
Just like the old saying goes, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”, sadly, this is a philosophy that many cannot achieve. Inessential factors including bias, appearance racial hatred and so for always get in the way of justification, twisting the fact into the justifier’s favor and that is when injustice happen. In To Kill a Mockingbird, this had happened a number of time, even children had inherited this bad vile trait, including the main characters- Jem and Scout. In chapter 10, it was demonstrated when they were justifying Atticus on p.98: