Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Timothy Cole was a 24-year-old student at Texas Tech University. After completing two years of college, he had enlisted in the army for two years in hopes of serving his country. Timothy was an ordinary man with dreams of getting married and having children, but that dream never materialized. Upon his return to Texas Tech in 1985, he was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for the rape of a 20-year-old girl named Michele Mallin. Mallin, then, a student at Texas Tech University Lubbock, was walking to her car when a man approached her and held a knife to her neck. He forced himself into her car and drove her to the outskirts of town where he raped her repeatedly. The next day the police investigator showed Michele pictures of the suspect where she pointed at Timothy Cole. When police showed her a lineup, again she picked Cole. “I was positive,” she said. “I really thought it was him,” but in fact she had accidently robbed an innocent man of his freedom (Lavendra 2009).

Every man has opinions, some which are stronger than others, but do these thoughts define the man? In Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s play Inherit The Wind opinions do not define the people who advocate them. Each character in this play has viewpoints that influence their actions. The bravery, honesty and determination required to express an opinion defines a person more than the opinion, allowing one to respect a man who advocates unpopular opinions.

Every living thing on this planet has evolved from the same original specie. Having this information, could it not be concluded that all living things are, to some degree, related? Yes. To further explain, evolution is a theory that states that organisms have diversified or in other words, have changed into a more complex living thing. In the book Inherit The Wind, the townsfolk of the play disagree heavily with the theory of evolution. Common ancestry is the theory that states that all living things share a common ancestor or common descendent, which then ties into evolution. Speciation, both allopatric and parapatric, show evidence for common ancestry. Speciation is when new species arise due to an evolutionary process. There are multiple and observable accounts that are used to support the theory of common ancestry. Charles Darwin’s book, The Descent of Man And Selection in Relation to Sex, goes into specifics with these accounts with placental mammals. Placental mammals are mammals that nourish their embryos using the mother 's blood supply. Common Ancestry in placental mammals provides sufficient scientific evidence, such as the similarities in bone structures and genetic coding between animals, to support the theory of evolution.

Inherit the Wind is a powerful play written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee that tells of the significant battle of conventional, religious powers versus freedom and the growing reality of Charles Darwin’s theories. This play is not the exact encounter of the courtroom battle but rather a dramatic retelling of one of the greatest courthouse showdowns in human history. Although many think the religious “Bible-thumpers” defending the Bible to be bias and inconsiderate in this play and in the actual account, those accusers may now look back and see that those “Bible-beaters” really did know what they were talking about they just didn’t quite know how to defeat the false belief of evolution but still keep the freedom of speech and press.

First, one conflicts in the story is Person versus. Person conflict, seen in Brady and Drummond’s debate obviously, which reflects the difference between beliefs that they hold for “the truth”. Conforming to the dialogue from Drummond’s speech, “Do you ever think about things that you think about? Isn’t it possible that first day was twenty-five hours long? There was no way to measures it, no way to tell! Could t been twenty-five hours?” (Lawrence, Lee 97). In the debate, Drummond asks for showing the day, which is a biblical bias evidence proof. He directly show his opinion that the bible is inaccurate, therefore he does not believe in the bible. However, according to Brady, he has religious beliefs that manipulates his point of view compared to Drummond. Specifically, during Brady’s speech in the debate,“It is not an opinion. It is a literal fact, which the good bishop arrived at through careful computation of the ages of the prophets as set down in the Old Testament. ”(Lawrence, Lee 96) Thus, all his speech and evidence is

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Feeling small, as if you can’t breathe as you lie awake at night, in the comfort of your bed that once gave you so many nights of sleep, the sheets tangle around you and trap you, meanwhile your mind drifts to thoughts of what would happen if you had done something different, kept quiet, did what was right. All of this turmoil because of one act you had done earlier that same day. For some, the feeling never goes away; guilt eats away at their conscience and they find themselves deprived of energy or sleep until they make things right. It’s a feeling we have all felt though the severity may differ from person to person and from sin to sin. Guilt is the main internal conflict that occurs in the novel. Guilt is what keeps our protagonist restless. Guilt is the driving plot of the story. In the novel “The Kite Runner”, the narrator Amir feels much this way. In “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini, the author uses the protagonist Amir’s arc of redemption as an example to show that redemption can lead to self acceptance for a past grievance and peace of mind.

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In Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, Grahame is able to combine two seemingly opposite themes to really grab the attention of his audience, the children reading his book. Those two themes are adventure and the importance of home. While the majority of children love the idea of going out for joyrides on Toad’s horse-drawn caravan or taking action in a mastermind plan to free Toad Hall of the weasels, at the end of the day what children need and want is home. By home I do not just mean a home, but all the things that a home can provide, such as family, comfort, safety, and a place to belong. I think Grahame does a great job of exploring the adventure genre stories children love while still maintaining the importance of the ordinariness

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