To Kill A Mockingbird

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To Kill A Mockingbird
                English Essay Final

    In the literary pieces To Kill a Mocking bird , An Enemy of the People, and Julius Caesar the
authors use crowds to develop their themes. The townspeople, majority, and the mobs represented how
people go in favor of the more popular side. Most people will go on this side because the benefits will go to
the people. They can also fear that having a different opinion will make a bad impression of themselves.
    In To Kill a Mockingbird, the townspeople's narrow-mindedness didn't allow them to think like "
free-thinkers". They never went outside the boundaries of Maycomb County, which limited their
knowledge to that which they already knew. The townspeople were all brought up under the same beliefs.
Since the town is in the middle of nowhere, they receive no new ideas or information. All this is
accountable for the narrow-mindedness of the town.. Harper Lee uses the townspeople to show how
narrow-mindedness leads to uniform thinking. This way of thinking leads to the majority always going on
the same side. Anyone with a different opinion cannot speak up because nobody else will support him. All
of the other people believe him wrong because they grew up thinking that their ways are correct. Thus, the
majority in To Kill a Mockingbird always beat the minority because the majority's facts are based on ideas
that everyone has.
    In An Enemy of the People, Ibsen shows that Society listens selectively. The peop...

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Submitted by: digitalessays
Date Submitted: 10-11-1999
Category: English
Words: 1044
Pages: 4.18