“Don’t judge a book by its cover.” One of the most constant themes dragged on in literature, it’s also one of the few that resonates personally with most of today’s population today. Even with major influences that have been brought to ingrain the message inside people that appearances do not speak everything about a person, only few have managed to leap over the hurdle and see the real deal beneath the veneer. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the movie Twelve Angry Men, both Atticus and Juror #8 prove that they’ve mastered the skill of not succumbing to society’s beliefs that circle around prejudice by taking the risky side of the defenders, Tom Robinson and the little boy. Through the virtue of patience and hard work,
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For one, the trials set them out into different areas in which they must work to support their opinions. In Twelve Angry Men, for example, Juror #8 is given more evidence to work with, both physical and primary resources via interrogation. Such include the switchblade and the lady who claimed seeing the boy stabbing his father. Meanwhile, Atticus is left only with intuition and whatever information he can gather from his years of living in Maycomb about Bob Ewell and Tom Robinson. Only educated guesses can be made at this circumstance, thus putting Atticus at a weak position to stand at …show more content…
With one trial winning and the other sadly plummeting to a defeat of only one vote for the defendant, there were many factors discussed that led to one case triumphing over the other, some including the amount of evidence and how the societies were organized. From the two worlds, one can acknowledge just how serious a basic appearance and status of a person can play in part to be set in a game to live. Tom Robinson was not addressed as a man who simply felt sorry for a woman’s suffering to always be subjected to loneliness but as a man who was black, therefore automatically letting his fate settle down. Similarly, the boy who was set for the electric chair was looked down upon at his shady background involving his upbringing in the slums and not at all for the ploy of evidence, not until Juror #8 actually thought it out. Judging is a part of human nature and it will, in no sense, come to an end. But if people slowly turn to prying down what’s actually behind the countenance, there could be
For one, the trials set them out into different areas in which they must work to support their opinions. In Twelve Angry Men, for example, Juror #8 is given more evidence to work with, both physical and primary resources via interrogation. Such include the switchblade and the lady who claimed seeing the boy stabbing his father. Meanwhile, Atticus is left only with intuition and whatever information he can gather from his years of living in Maycomb about Bob Ewell and Tom Robinson. Only educated guesses can be made at this circumstance, thus putting Atticus at a weak position to stand at …show more content…
With one trial winning and the other sadly plummeting to a defeat of only one vote for the defendant, there were many factors discussed that led to one case triumphing over the other, some including the amount of evidence and how the societies were organized. From the two worlds, one can acknowledge just how serious a basic appearance and status of a person can play in part to be set in a game to live. Tom Robinson was not addressed as a man who simply felt sorry for a woman’s suffering to always be subjected to loneliness but as a man who was black, therefore automatically letting his fate settle down. Similarly, the boy who was set for the electric chair was looked down upon at his shady background involving his upbringing in the slums and not at all for the ploy of evidence, not until Juror #8 actually thought it out. Judging is a part of human nature and it will, in no sense, come to an end. But if people slowly turn to prying down what’s actually behind the countenance, there could be