Jim Crow Laws In To Kill A Mockingbird

One of the major causes individuals get caught up in mob mentality is because people feel pressured to execute the corrupt actions in order to be accepted in society. Mob mentality can trigger certain emotions to participate in terrible public events in which causes harm to others. In the 1920’s, a horrible incident occurred in Duluth Minnesota which will always be remembered in history.

The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws are laws that were set to restrict Blacks, these laws were considered a way of life (Pilgrim). People thought that these laws were necessary because craniologists, eugenicists, phrenologists, and Social Darwinists at every level believed that Blacks were intellectually inferior (Pilgrim). Punishments would be dealt out for any reason, such as breaking Jim Crow laws, and alleged criminal offenses (Pilgrim). Some typical punishments were physical beatings and lynchings. The Jim Crow laws are seen throughout To Kill a Mockingbird. One Jim Crow law mandated Whites did not have to use courtesy titles when referring to Blacks. Thus

In the statement on mob - mentality by Nina Munteanu, mob - mentality is when one individual takes fear and uses it to their advantage. They are the ones that are responsible for controlling how others act within the mob. People in the mob also become someone other than themselves. It is as if they are temporarily insane, not thinking straight. A mob - mentality is when the people within the mob come up with their on desired form of justice. I agree with Nina, when she says if you allow the mob to happen, you are allowing insanity to occur.

The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws were a set of rules that perpetuated racism and segregation. These rules were sickening and appalling. The Jim Crow laws were made to keep Blacks from interacting with Whites. For example, if a white woman were to fall a black man could not offer her, his hand to help her up because it was considered rape (Pilgrim 2). Many scientists and religious leaders justified these laws. One reason was that scientist thought that black peoples brains were inferior to those of white people. Also, many religious leaders believed that Whites were the chosen people and Blacks were just there to serve them (Pilgrim 2). If you were not following these laws, there were sever consequences. People believed these punishments were necessary to “keep Blacks in their place”. One example is mass lynching. This punishment is when a mob of people would take a black person, accused of breaking a rule, and beat them, torture them, and kill them. The police didn’t just not stop these rampages, often they would participate. The Jim Crow laws can be seen in To Kill a Mockingbird in many ways. One of the laws was that a black person could not say that a white person was lying (Pilgrim). This is shown in the book when Tom is accused of calling Mayella a liar, by Mr. Gilmer (Lee 224).

Mob mentality and herd behavior have a negative behavior on people because of their individuality and rational thinking. People are influenced by others behaviors in a group. They can have negative and positive acts on people having individual thinking and it changes people's rational thinking. In the teleplay “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” written by Rod Serling, the article “When Good people Do Bad Things” written by Ann Trafton, and the article “Why Do People Follow The Crowd” reported by ABC news, when someone does not want to share their own idea they do not feel like sharing as a groups. People can also act differently in a group because they do not want to be embarrassed with others.

Mob mentality can occur in any society. It can take place at any time, any day or any night. Mob mentality does not have a direct target. It will take over anyone, leaving them with no control over themselves. Mob mentality proves that under critical situations people will be selfish and follow others’ leads; however, the leads people usually follow are not the ones best for them. Due to large amounts of stress everyone carries, people do not think as clearly as they normally would. Those horrible leads that people choose to follow will eventually cause groups to become out of control. Violence usually ensues when within

Thomas Fuller once said, “The mob has many heads, but no brains.” In this day in age, mob mentality is seen as having a negative influence on society. Specific behaviors can be triggered by the influence of our peers around us, some of which can cause people to take perilous actions that can have a significant impact on humanity.

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the sleepy, southern Maycomb, Alabama. A small town in the grips of 1930’s depression, To Kill a Mockingbird spans a period of three years following young Scout Finch and her family through their experiences with racism and prejudice. Jim Crow laws were a series of ordinances the prevented equal treatment of African-Americans. Beginning with the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and remaining in effect until the Civil rights movement of the 1950s, Jim Crow laws governed where colored people could live, work, eat, enter and exit a building, and use public services. “Jim Crow laws grew from theories of white supremacy and were a reaction to Reconstruction,” explained Andrew Costly of the Constitutional Rights Foundation, “In the depression-racked 1890s, racism appealed to whites who feared losing their jobs to blacks.” Ensuring that freed slaves remained weak and inferior, Jim Crow laws revoked black freedom’s and crippled their rights. And while not explicitly stated, evidence of Jim Crow Laws appears methodically throughout To Kill a Mockingbird. Strongly influenced by elements of racism, the story paints a vivid picture of life in the era of Jim Crow, for both colored and white.

The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws perpetuated segregation. The Jim Crow laws were appalling. It was a racial system that had many terrible anti-Black laws (“Jim Crow laws”). These laws were huge in the south and border states. People treated and acted horrible towards the Blacks. Some examples of these laws were how Blacks and Whites could not eat together and how African Americans had to sit in the back of a White person's car(“Jim Crow laws”). These laws were basically cutting off almost all communication and action with any Black. Jim Crow had separate bathrooms, schools, churches, cemeteries and public accommodations for each race(Pilgrim). There were many reasons for the laws. For example, a black male could not offer or shake hands with a white woman because he would be accused of rape(“Jim Crow laws”) A Black could also never offer to light a white females' cigarette or show public affection toward another in public because it showed intimacy and offended Whites(“Jim Crow laws”). Boating implied social equality(“Jim Crow laws”). These examples just showed how disrespected African Americans were treated. Pilgrim points out that the Jim Crow laws were trying to keep Blacks and Whites separated. With these laws and reasons came punishments. Punishments were done if a Black broke a law and used as intimidation(“Jim Crow laws”). When a group of black males tried sitting in the White section of a bus they were arrested(“Jim Crow laws”). Blacks could get physically beat by a White if they drank out of the Whites water fountain or tried to vote(“Jim Crow laws”). The most extreme punishments were lynchings and occurred for demanding civil rights riots and violating laws(“Jim Crow laws”). Lynchings were public and most

This book the new Jim Crow Laws in a modern version of to kill mocking a bird. In the book killing a mocking bird Atticus is a white lawyer. He is representing a black man during that 1960’s when the Jim Crow Laws existed. The Jim Crow Laws were laws written to separate the blacks and whites in the public areas this meant African Americans could not use the same bathroom, be at the same school, and even at to sit at the back of the bus. They had unequal opportunities and even the in government. In the book Maycomb accused Tom Robinson of rapping her. In the book Atticus and Tom Robinson could have both been lynched. The court case in the book and the jury is

After reading and viewing the mob mentality pieces, I conclude that mobs were gruesome groups that were hard to stop when in the action. For Instance, in the NPR Radio Diaries, it talks about how a mob a lynched two of three boys and broke into a place station to get the last boy ( “ Strange Fruit: Anniversary of a Lynching” ). This shows that mobs were virtually unstoppable. They were not satisfied until everyone they wanted dead were dead. They were willing break into the holding cells and get in trouble or hurt just to have one more person dead. Another idea that supports this conclusion is from S.E. Smith’s article “ What is Mob Mentality? “, the article talks about about if some people get trampled when there is a lot of urgency or

To Kill A Mockingbird took place in the 1930’s, a time that was enormously charged with racial tension. One example of this is the existence of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Even though the KKK was in a time of decline in the 1930’s, it had been very prominent in the 1920’s and had still not completely died out. The KKK had rallies and

Mob Mentality Anyone can be a part of something that they would normally not do. It could be harmful towards others or it could be something that did not affect anyone. When people are in groups, they are more likely to riot than if they are by themselves, possibly causing them to make bad or racist decisions if everyone around them are. Crowds can make people feel like they are doing something right just because they are not alone. “Isolated individuals seldom heckle or riot.

Mob mentality, when people find power in numbers. Quantity over quality. And use it to fight for what they believe in or what others push them to do, whether it is right or wrong. These can easily go wrong and be used to overpower others and to take power into their own hands. When the mob shows up right before the case in court starts they come in groups and are fully confident in themselves of coming for and hurting Tom Robinson, believing that their big mob and power can easily overpower others and bring themselves up higher.

The Jim Crow laws were one influence for Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird. The Jim Crow laws perpetuated segregation. The Jim Crow laws were appalling. The Jim Crow laws were a set of anti-black laws. For instances Pilgrim states,African Americans were treated as second class citizens. Here are some example of the Jim Crow laws. Black males were unable to shake a white man’s hand or would never be allowed to curse at a white person(Pilgrim). There are two reasons for these laws. Here is the first reasoning. According to Pilgrim,christian ministers were taught that whites were the chosen people. Whites thought Blacks were cursed to be servants(Pilgrim). The Jim Crow laws undergirded by the following beliefs or rationalizations. The final reason is they could only vote if there ancestors had voted before the Civil War(Pilgrim). There were multiple punishments for Blacks,if they didn't follow the laws. Some examples of the punishments are they used violence, arrestment, and losing their jobs and homes(Pilgrim). In the image there is a black man dancing with ratty clothes and in the background the animals are in nice formal clothes (V. E).