How Did Harper Lee Use Historical Events In To Kill A Mockingbird

Faith Hansen
TKM Paper Historical Events on the novel To Kill a Mockingbird

Do people not like how racism is use today? Or when people do not follow rules. Harper Lee used real-life events as inspiration for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. There are connections to the Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and the issues of racism. The first connection to America’s actual history is the presence of the Jim Crow laws in the book. Jim Crow laws are never assert or even intimate that a White person is lying. Never impute dishonorable intentions to a White person. Never curse a White person. Never comment upon the appearance of a White female. Why most of these Jim Crow laws were needed was because Whites were superior to blacks in all limited

Mob mentality is when people act different with a group then when their alone. This is shown with current examples, people figure that a crowded at a restaurant must be selling yummy food other wise would not be that busy. Another example is if a person in a group that is vandalizing a building he or she. It is honestly cool and different when people act really different with a group instead of alone (Smith). Mob mentality is also a part at the country’s past one example happen 1930, August at night. There was an ironic lynching with two Black boys. Where it happen was in Indiana. What mob mentality did was they broke in the door to see the lynching. The mobs facials expressions are normal. That just shocks me completely, I would be scared and not watching the lynching. It was just like a normal day for the people watching. I think they just acted different because they were in a group and they did what the group did too. (“Strange Fruit & Anniversary”). Now a photo was taken at the lynching. The photo shows that people have seen this happen before, some of the people are shocked and pointing at the hanging bodies and some of the people look like they were cheering and happy about the lynching. The people were with a group though and people tend to act different with a group. In the picture it also shows the men were both Black men. (Beitler). Mob Mentality happens in the town in the book To Kill a

People were racist because they think they are better than everyone else. People think that it is a thing to make racist comments but actually it is not nice at all. The overview of the viedo happen 1932. (Routledge). Then there were White girls on the train. There were also men and then the girls screamed rape when they got off the train. A lot of racism happen there. (Anderson). Some of the of situations are the same from Tom Robinson trial. They both happen 1930. Both of the trials had lynching happen. Rape also happen in the book and the trial. They both were in the south. Also dealing with White women. (Johnson). They both were honest about the trial. To me I think they were both scared about the trial. They were scared for seeing who is guilty or not guilty. I think being scared for a trial is alright because when people are scared tend to blab more than normally what people would usually do and maybe speak the truth too (Lee