Science is always the determining factor in today’s society. People always don’t agree with science because it goes agianst their religion or family. In Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, we see that there is a “mob mentality” in groups of people and science sees that a child cannot distract a group from a revolt or a parade. Lee’s perspective about mob mentality is different from James and Giddings because she believes that a child can distract people in a mob. She claims that a child can be innocent, a child can make connections with someone, and change a person perspective.

In TKAM, Harper Lee uses Scout as an innocent person. During the story, Scout is cought sneaking around town and Atticus catches her. When she is talking to her dad about the situation reconizes someone in the croud. She proceeds to talk to Mr. Cunningham (the person se spotted) about entaitalments and how they are bad. On page 205, “and he does right well. He’s a good boy”, (Lee 205), over time Mr.Cunningham relizes that he has a relationship with her dad and doesnt want to ruin it. This supports it because Dr. Wendy James said, “Riots are by definition violent in nature.” (James 123), she says that no-one can stop a riot. Where as Harper Lee goes agiant that theory. …show more content…
When Scout was talking to Mr. Cunningham about entailments, he agreed that they are bad and kept the conversation going. On page 205, “Entailments are bad” (Lee 205) She uses Scout by making Mr. Cunningham think that what he is doing is probiley the best thing to do in front of a a girl. She (Harper Lee) wants Mr. Cunningham to feel bad because Scout doesnt know what is going on around her and cannot comprehend what is happening. In many other cases, Scout talks with Mr.Cunningham about his son and how he is a good boy in class. This coversation that Scout had with Mr. Cunningham changed his perspective on his actions at the