In To Kill A Mockingbird and The Hate U Give, both authors use the rhetoric of children to reveal to their audiences topics revolving around the real prejudicial beliefs that many people uphold about black people being worse human beings than white people. In Chapter 25 of To Kill A Mockingbird, when Scout is trying to understand why Mr. Underwood, the owner of the local newspaper, wrote that Tom Robinson’s death was a “senseless killing,”(Lee 275) she asks herself, “How could this be so”(Lee 275). This is a rhetorical question because Scout is asking herself why Mr. Underwood called Tom Robinson's death a “senseless killing,” because she thought that since Tom had a trial, that was enough for his prosecution to be fair and not “senseless.”
