The chances of either of them winning the trial are extremely slim as they are both part of the smaller communities in their novel. Tom Robison, if he had been assigned another lawyer in Atticus' place, would have had no chance of being successful with his trial since others did not see it as Atticus did. Instead of conforming to the rest of society, she believed that Mr. Robinson deserved a fair chance just like any other person would. He went against the majority to show them that the real crime was the hatred and racism they have towards people of different racial backgrounds. In Snow Falling on Cedars, the same concept happened with Kabuo Miyamoto's murder trial. Free will and chance are two completely different things that can affect the lives of others. “There are things in this universe that we can't control, and then there are things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence and accident conspire; human beings must act according to reason." (Chapter 29, Guterson). While we cannot control some situations we find ourselves in, we have free will to decide how to react and control those situations instead of letting chance take control and hoping for the future.