Life is an unfair thing, in the 1930’s Harper Lee does a great way to show it. Harper Lee used real-life events as inspiration for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In the novel, there are connections to the Jim Crow laws, and mob mentality.
The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird are the Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws were horrible for Blacks. “The Laws were an official effort to keep African Americans separate from Whites in the southern United States for many years” (“Jim Crow Laws”1). These laws did Blacks no justice, it put them in a place lower than Whites. “The term Jim Crow became an unfavorable name for Blacks as well as a term for their segregation, or separation from Whites” (Jim Crow Laws”1). People thought these …show more content…
Mob mentality is a very scary and unfair thing to everyone. Mob mentality refers to unique behavioral characteristics that emerge when people are in large group (Smith 1). Typically it is a large group of people that perform violent activities. The reason to why mobs happen is because those who join the group figure that if several others are doing something, it must be worthwhile, or they would not be doing (Smith 1). Some of the people who join a group do it to be cool, they may be pressured into it, or they may see people they want to be like so they try to “copy” them. Mobs often cause people who are in groups to behave in ways that are similar to others in the group (Smith 1). People in a mob behave ways that are not okay. The group will do horrible things and behave in horrible ways. Mob mentality can be seen in To Kill a Mockingbird in many ways. An example of mob mentality is when people in crowds suddenly begin rushing in one direction (Smith 1). Something happened causing a group to want to get out of certain situation. In To Kill a Mockingbird, while Tom Robinson was trying to escape he was shot at and ended up dying (Lee 269). Even though Tom was not apart of a mob or in a group, the police were. He was an innocent guy, but because he was African American. He was going to be charged with something he did not do, so he wanted to get away. The policeman saw him trying to get away and
The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird are the Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws were horrible for Blacks. “The Laws were an official effort to keep African Americans separate from Whites in the southern United States for many years” (“Jim Crow Laws”1). These laws did Blacks no justice, it put them in a place lower than Whites. “The term Jim Crow became an unfavorable name for Blacks as well as a term for their segregation, or separation from Whites” (Jim Crow Laws”1). People thought these …show more content…
Mob mentality is a very scary and unfair thing to everyone. Mob mentality refers to unique behavioral characteristics that emerge when people are in large group (Smith 1). Typically it is a large group of people that perform violent activities. The reason to why mobs happen is because those who join the group figure that if several others are doing something, it must be worthwhile, or they would not be doing (Smith 1). Some of the people who join a group do it to be cool, they may be pressured into it, or they may see people they want to be like so they try to “copy” them. Mobs often cause people who are in groups to behave in ways that are similar to others in the group (Smith 1). People in a mob behave ways that are not okay. The group will do horrible things and behave in horrible ways. Mob mentality can be seen in To Kill a Mockingbird in many ways. An example of mob mentality is when people in crowds suddenly begin rushing in one direction (Smith 1). Something happened causing a group to want to get out of certain situation. In To Kill a Mockingbird, while Tom Robinson was trying to escape he was shot at and ended up dying (Lee 269). Even though Tom was not apart of a mob or in a group, the police were. He was an innocent guy, but because he was African American. He was going to be charged with something he did not do, so he wanted to get away. The policeman saw him trying to get away and