Believe it or not, individuals have trouble seeing black from white. Mankind has the ability to develop an immoral sense of integrity suited to their needs, yet morally accept their sense of integrity. The author of To Kill a Mockingbird illustrates this illusion portrayed by a Southern society. By using a 1930's Southern point-of-view, Harper Lee demonstrates that integrity not only has the power to unite humankind, but to divide humankind as well. The setting of To Kill a Mockingbird, in a small Alabama community is constructed from the contradictions of Christianity and prejudice. Through prejudice and bigotry, the Southern...
sense of integrity is far stronger than justice is. Atticus's sense of integrity unites mankind. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus unites the black community with his family.

Perhaps if Atticus succeeded in compelling the jury to understand his sense of integrity, the entire tune of To Kill a Mocking Bird would change dramatically. The moral sense of integrity would more powerfully unite all of Maycomb; blacks and whites. The fibers of a masked immoral sense of integrity have the power to divide mankind; as the justice of a moral sense of integrity has the power to unite mankind.