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Compare And Contrast The Scottsboro Trial And To Kill A Mockingbird

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The Scottsboro Trails last two decades that came along with wasted lives, ended careers, people being made into hero’s, and opening southern juries to the blacks. Much like in To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Scottsboro Trails society shaped everything and everyone around them. In this case, how did society shape Mayella Ewell, Ruby Bates, and Victoria Price into victims and accuser? Mayella Ewell and Ruby Bates are in many ways similar victims unlike Victoria Price. In the Mayella’s story she was from a very small prejudice town during the depression. She was very poor and had to take care of the family because her dad as an abusive drunk. She didn’t live in the white part nor the black part of town, because of this the town would look away anytime …show more content…

Mayella accused Tom Robbins knowing it was the wrong thing to do and knowing it was her dad that assaulted her. In society, though they say a white man would never do something so horrible. There never would’ve been a trial. Victoria Price was a girl who hated men. She was someone who was so caught up in what the people or society around her would’ve thought, knowing these men would go down for it even if it wasn’t true. These are much alike even though its fictional and non-fictional. They both accused men who were innocent and they fed into what people were going to think or say. Ruby accused these men of the same crime as Victoria. However, during the trials you saw that Victoria was running the show, influencing ruby on what to say and which ones that raped who. It was easy for Victoria to talk about it while Ruby didn’t really articulate it well, then later recanting and saying that none of what either of them said was true. You saw the same thing with Mayella as Victoria, she was very dead set on her story about Tom Robbins. Society has drilled into these girl’s head how “bad” black people are that they feel like there’s no other choice than to blame

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