Social Injustice in To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies by James Alsip

     The social hierarchy is similar in TKAMB and LOTF. In TKAMB, Tom Robinson and other black people are at the bottom of the social hierarchy and in LOTF, the 'littluns' are at the bottom of the social hierarchy. People at the bottom of the hierarchy do not have a lot of power or have any say in what happens. They are just participants being controlled by more powerful people. "To begin with, this case should have never have come to trial. This case is as simple as black and white." page 271 in TKAMB. This quote explains how the race of someone in TKAMB affects how they are treated by others and can determine who wins the court case. White people are at the top of the hierarchy and black people at the time were at the bottom. In LOTF, the littluns do what the bigger children tell them to. The older children do not take the littluns seriously.  "'What about the littluns,' 'Sucks to the littluns!,' 'Somebody's got to look after them,' 'Nobody has so far.'" This quote shows that the littluns always have to be looked after and are seen as more as a problem than a help. Between the two books, the littuns are like the black people in TKAMB and the older children are like the white people in TKAMB.

Social hierarchy in TKAMB