Race and Justice in American Fiction: A Study Through To Kill A Mockingbird

<p>The concept of race and justice has been important issues since the beginning of human history. The theme of race and justice serve a significant position in American fiction. Race and justice also play an important role in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel highlights the idea of race from a different historical period and identical racial perspectives. The aim of this paper is to explore how race and justice exhibits its significance in American fiction. This paper also tries to examine the treatment of race and justice in a post-depression American society. It puts forth the idea of justice by contextualizing the alienation of justice in legal and social terms in the case of a black man. The writer of the select novel has  rightly pointed out that though segregation has been abolished from the institutions, from the society, its disease has remained in the minds of a large number of people.</p>