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In this article it is talking about how as an individual people don’t have that much power but as they join in a group they unite as one and become more powerful. There are three theories she has. 1 is that crowds exert a hypnotic influence on their members that results in irrational and emotionally charged behavior often referred to as crowd frenzy. The 2nd one is that a group of like minded individuals come together. And the last one is that two above arguing that a combination of like-minded individuals, and shared emotions leads to crowd behavior. I think this relates to, To Kill a Mockingbird because it shows that when those 4 guys came together to get Atticus they were more powerful because it was 4 against 1.

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