Compare And Contrast: “To Kill A Mockingbird” &Amp;Amp;Amp; Scottsboro Trials
When Harper Lee was writing about the trial of Tom Robinson in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” she had a very real case to look to for inspiration. The trial of the Scottsboro Boys was a world renowned case in the 1930’s in which nine black youths were accused of raping to white girls in Alabama. Lee’s novel took this case and created the fictional case of Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a lower class white girl in a small town in Alabama during the Depression-era. The Scottsboro trials were the main source of inspiration for Lee’s novel, and although the circumstances of the novel differed from the real-life scandal, the similarities between the two cases are quite abundant.
The accusations made in the Scottsboro case by Victoria Price and Ruby Bates charged nine black boys with rape and assault. This is also true of the accusations made by Mayella Ewell and her father in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The situations presented are different, however. In the......
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