To Kill A Mockingbird: Mobs
Individually, people can be decent and kind; however, in a mob, people can
be judgmental and cruel. In the classic by Harper Lee, To Kill a
Mockingbird, several mob scenes portray the cruelty carried in numbers,
but also exhibits that that any one person within that mob can have the
strength to overcome the crowd and have the will to speak out. In two
specific mobs, one of the Cunnighams proves to have the scruples to say
what they believe deeply believe is right.
The first mob situation occurred just outside of the city jailhouse. Here,
the drunken group came with the intent of seizing and killing the accused
felon. The crowd discarded individual convictions, and ...
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guilty. No where did it say the bias jury initially had a
guilty verdict in mind, but with the attitude towards blacks in Maycomb
County, Lee made it bluntly obvious that they had no intention of
pronouncing Tom innocent. In the book Atticus made it very clear, "In our
courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man
always wins." Just as in the horde outside the jailhouse, another member
of the Cunningham family played the outsider of this group. Atticus later
referred to the unnamed Cunningham, "You might like to know that there was
one fellow who took considerable wearing down�in the beginning he was
rarin' for an outright acquittal." Even though this Cunningham was not
able to hold his ground, he held his position for over two hours while
arguing with his peers. It was a courageous act all in itself.
Lee may have tried to express society's views threw the use of the mobs.
Each mob contained men of different occupations, classes, and ...
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