The Theme of Injustice
"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he send forth a tiny ripple of hope."
Robert Francis Kennedy
The theme of injustice depends on the perspective of the individual. Injustice is defined differently by everyone. Injustice can stand for the seizure of certain people's rights, words and acts of hostility towards others and other types of wrong doings. Many may consider injustice to be part of the injustice doer's agenda. This is why authors choose experiences or situations that are universal in some way to everyone.
The theme that I have chosen is injustice, I chose this theme because I feel that this theme is the most prevalent in the novel. There are many instances of injustice in the text where white people openly show their hostility and superiority to the African Americans. These instances include the segregation of the African Americans due to to the Jim Crow Laws. Those in power sometimes use the state's legal and political systems to violate the political, economic, and social rights of subordinate groups. The main conflict in the novel centers around the unjust trial and sentence that the jury gave Jefferson.
Through the background research I have done, I have discovered that injustices to a certain race or group of people have been occurring time and time again in history. Injustice is a part of our human history. It is what many have found to be the evil side of mankind. These injustices are usually racial in nature. Examples of injustices throughout history are:
The theme that I have chosen is injustice, I chose this theme because I feel that this theme is the most prevalent in the novel. There are many instances of injustice in the text where white people openly show their hostility and superiority to the African Americans. These instances include the segregation of the African Americans due to to the Jim Crow Laws. Those in power sometimes use the state's legal and political systems to violate the political, economic, and social rights of subordinate groups. The main conflict in the novel centers around the unjust trial and sentence that the jury gave Jefferson.
Through the background research I have done, I have discovered that injustices to a certain race or group of people have been occurring time and time again in history. Injustice is a part of our human history. It is what many have found to be the evil side of mankind. These injustices are usually racial in nature. Examples of injustices throughout history are:
- Slave traders in the United States
- The English in India
- Jews in WWII
- Belgians in Congo
- First Nations in Canada
- Women in the Middle East
- Forced conversion to another religion
- Exploitation
- Moral Injustice
- Social Injustice
- Political Injustice
- Racial Injustice
- Religious Injustice
- Cultural Injustice