Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani girl, was shot and injured by the Taliban. At the age of eleven, Malala and all other Pakistani women were told that they could no longer receive any form of education. Malala did not stay silent, she wanted to learn and she made sure everyone was aware of the cruelty of the situation. On October 8, as Malala and many other children were riding the bus home, the bus was stopped by a masked Taliban gunman who shot Malala in the head and neck. Malala survived the shooting and even wrote a book later. This situation is very similar to what certain characters experience in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird and Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Lee and Skloot demonstrate that restrictions from society and others lead to injustice. In To Kill a Mockingbird, injustice is visible in many aspects of the book. Scout is a victim of his anger throughout the novel. When Jem, Atticus, and Scout all go to Finch's Landing for Christmas, Scout punches Francis after he calls Atticus a black lover. Uncle Jack punishes Scout after hearing only Francis' side. “I took a deep breath. “Well, first of all, you never stopped giving me a chance to tell you my side of things – you just enlightened me. » (Lee 113). Uncle Jack's ignorance of the conflict he created drives Scout crazy because he didn't ask her for her side of the story. Just because at first glance Scout seemed to be the antagonist, Uncle Jack took the plunge and unknowingly punished her, causing an unfair situation. Another time where, again, Scout faced injustice was when she started school. Miss Caroline, her teacher, discovers that Scout can read and informs her that her father is stopping teaching her. Middle of paper... all over the world they came from a living woman.' » (Skloot 91). Henrietta did not receive the thanks she deserved from any doctors or scientists because they simply considered HeLa cells to be nothing more than cells. They didn't even blink at the idea that the cells came from a real person. Overall, through the disarray of society, Skloot shows that injustice haunts many people. Harper Lee and Rebecca Skloot reveal that innocent people suffer from the injustice society inflicts on them. Injustice manifests itself in many forms and affects people in their own ways, each one equally bad. Malala Yousafzai knows this well, since she experienced it with a bullet to the head. In conclusion, discrimination against people is what makes these injustices possible. Works Cited To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot