enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote, who provided the basis of the character of Dill in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee was only five years old in when, in April 1931 in the small Alabama town of Scottsboro, the first trials began with regard to the purported rapes of two white women by nine young black men. The defendants, who were nearly lynched before being brought to court, were not provided with the services of a lawyer until the first day of
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there are still events in which people express their disdain of a person for their race. The transition to the tolerance we have today has been an onerous path for many especially for those who suffered an unfair trial. To Kill A Mockingbird, the Scottsboro Trial, the Emmett Till Murder Trial, the Coca-Cola lawsuit, and EEOC vs. Rizza Cadillac are clear examples of how it seems like the United States
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While To Kill a Mockingbird is a story of Scout Finch’s childhood, Harper Lee draws the reader’s attention to the justice, morality, and ethics Scout witnesses along with her older brother Jem. Scout’s pure thoughts during calamity are evidence of her ethics. During Tom Robinson’s court trial, Jem’s morality shine’s on his tears as he tries to understand the shallowness of the townspeople of Maycomb. Justice, as well as injustice, is served time and time again in this novel. An example of both is
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depression played a huge part in how people lived their lives. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee used real-life events to connect with the events that happened in the novel. She made connections with the Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and the Scottsboro trials. The first connection made through To Kill a Mockingbird and real-life events in history are the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws were unfair laws that separate blacks from whites. Whites were considered more important than blacks, and
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Mob Mentality is when people no longer think straight when it comes to being in a group than as an individual. It is a way to describe the person’s behavioral characteristics when they are in a big group (Smith). Doing an action while in a crowd is different than doing it alone. People can get peer pressured into doing something that they most likely will not do alone like vandalizing someone’s property (Smith). Also if you are in a large group people will get the idea that they can easily get away
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To Kill a Mockingbird “Mockingbirds don’t do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat people’ gardens, don’t nest in the corncribs, they don’t do one thing but just sing their hearts out to us,” Atticus said to Scout (148). Indeed, Atticus’s word was extremely true in the situation of Tom Robinson, one of the characters in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, which was written by Harper Lee. This story took place in 1930’s in Southern Alabama when the injustice between black people
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Black individuals confronted unemployment of half or more. Their wages were 30% lower than white individuals. Scottsboro Boys Trial is a great case of the discrimination towards black individuals. When nine young African American men were charged of assaulting two white women. Everybody trusted the white women on the grounds that the young men were black. Discrimination
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ESTONE NJUGUNA I.D. 000447804 THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS This account clearly depicts the civil rights violation and the extent to which racism was deep rooted especially in the Southern states. The entire systems in place did not favor black people and harsh conclusions were drawn without enough or substantial evidence. The way the white’s reacted after the announcement of the invasion and their regrouping at the railway station armed with guns shows the urge to kill and eliminate black people. It
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Hayes-Tilden election In 1876, the two major candidates running for President were Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican, and Samuel J. Tilden, a Democrat. The first returns indicated a victory for Tilden, who had won the popular vote with 4,284,020 votes to Hayes' 4,036,572. But Tilden's 184 electoral votes -- the votes that would decide the Presidency -- were still one short of a majority, while Hayes' 165 electoral votes left him 20 ballots away. The votes of three Southern states and one western
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To kill a mockingbird is a sin because you shouldn’t harm something innocent that brings bliss. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, there are several characters that are capable of being a mockingbird, although Tom Robinson is the most apparent. The mockingbird is a symbol of innocence and purity. A mockingbird sings uplifting songs for others to hear, this can be compared to Tom’s acts of kindness for Mayella. “I was studyin’ why, just passin’ by, when she says for me to come there
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