Mob mentality is a powerful thing that can take over a group of people to do something they wouldn’t usually do. In todays day an age some examples are like the types of music people listen to, or if a lot of people are playing a certain sport, you might join because your friends are doing it (Smith). Our countries past also has parts of mob mentality; one example is when one whole county rose up and broke into a jail house and took two black men, beat them then lynched them for a crime that wasn’t even proven guilty (“Strange Fruit: Anniversary”) In the photo of the two men hanging the mob below them almost seemed casual, they were smiling, pointing and some were even laughing (Beitler). (Holiday) In Lee’s novel the people of Maycomb experienced mob mentality. In the book there were many areas of mob mentality. In chapter 15 thee were two parts of the mob. The first part in this chapter is when the farmers of Maycomb came to Atticus’s house. In this moment Jem ran outside for atticus and said that there was a telephone call to get in inside. He did this to not have atticus get hurt. Another mob was when they all went to the jailhouse. (Lee 201) In a mob there is something everyone is against, in this book the mob is against a black gentleman named Tom Robinson, this is
Mob mentality is a powerful thing that can take over a group of people to do something they wouldn’t usually do. In todays day an age some examples are like the types of music people listen to, or if a lot of people are playing a certain sport, you might join because your friends are doing it (Smith). Our countries past also has parts of mob mentality; one example is when one whole county rose up and broke into a jail house and took two black men, beat them then lynched them for a crime that wasn’t even proven guilty (“Strange Fruit: Anniversary”) In the photo of the two men hanging the mob below them almost seemed casual, they were smiling, pointing and some were even laughing (Beitler). (Holiday) In Lee’s novel the people of Maycomb experienced mob mentality. In the book there were many areas of mob mentality. In chapter 15 thee were two parts of the mob. The first part in this chapter is when the farmers of Maycomb came to Atticus’s house. In this moment Jem ran outside for atticus and said that there was a telephone call to get in inside. He did this to not have atticus get hurt. Another mob was when they all went to the jailhouse. (Lee 201) In a mob there is something everyone is against, in this book the mob is against a black gentleman named Tom Robinson, this is