Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), is a strong advocate for social justice and equality. Throughout his career, he is faced with the challenge of racism and inequality. Stevenson uses examples from his cases to highlight the discrimination towards incarcerated people and show that they too are worthy of redemption through hard work and determination.

Bryan uses allusions to connect his reasoning back to his main point. You can see this being done with the case of Walter McMillian, a wrongfully accused man on death row: “Sentimentality about Lee’s story grew even as the harder truths of the book took no roots” (Stevenson 23). Stevenson references Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, as a parallel