"She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance, but I cannot pity her: she is white. She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking and she persisted in breaking it." (Chapter 20)
It's not fair at all for Tom on trial and pre-convicted for something he didn't do. But Mayella is also a victim of a secret injustice: dirt poor, kept ignorant, raped by her father, and forbidden to seek companionship from the one person who was ever nice to her. It's no surprise that Atticus is the one to see it, he is very was and understanding. I feel like this situation happens in society all the time; people get blamed for something that they didn't do. Injustice is an unfair subject but there isn't really anything we can do to stop it. The only thing one can do as an individual is to play their part; be honest all the time. What goes around comes around; and Mayella's father will get what's coming to him.
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