Ugly Reality

Generally I’ll say that it’s usually bad for children to be in court, especially with Tom Robinson’s case. First of all, the children at the age of around 9 or 10 shouldn’t be exposed to violence such as sexual assault, murder, etc. Unless the children are like Atticus’s children that Atticus is willing to explain the whole event to the children without hiding facts, children often time misinterprets the case and the case may forever change their perspective of the world. I personally agree that children should sooner or later realize that no one in the world is always nice and friendly. The racism and discrimination between people always exist throughout the history of mankind. Children will therefore mature faster that they will understand the relationship between each other and realized that people do ugly things to destroy one another. However, with this Tom Robinson case, it may be too much for the children to absorb. In the court, a strong racial discrimination is explicitly and directly shown that Bob Ewell kept mentioning the N word, which may have bad influence on Scout. However, since Scout is already kind of mature that she understood what the word means and the reason for it to be a harsh word, it is unlikely that she will learn to use this kind of word to insult other black people. I think the appropriate age for someone to be able to see court case should be at least 18 since this is the age where people are mostly mature enough to have enough knowledge and understanding of the reality of the world.