A Comparison Of To Kill A Mockingbird And Mississippi Trial

To Kill a Mockingbird and Mississippi Trial, 1955 are novels that tell the story of young children living in the 1900’s, when the world was full of racism. In the realistic fiction novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the nonfiction novel, Mississippi Trial, 1955, by Chris Crowe, tell the stories of two Negro men suffering the wrath of white men. There will be a glimpse into the cruel situations the blacks had to endure. Characters in the books, watch innocent men get convicted, watch juries turn away from justice, and how the characters' grow with the knowledge they gain. Lee and Crowe’s trials have the same idea when it comes to their causes, development, and outcomes, like watching their justice system give no justice at all, truly changes

The audience watches as the witnesses come to stand and listen to every detail very vigilantly. As Heck Tate articulates his side, he states, “found her lying on the floor in the middle of the front room, one on the right as you go in. She was pretty well beat up, but I heaved her to her feet and she washed her face in the corner and said she was all right. I asked her who hurt her and she said it was Tom Robinson” (Lee 223). Heck Tate only repeated the story that he heard from Bob and Mayella. He does not know the whole reality behind it, meaning they can tell him any lie. On the other hand, in Mississippi Trial, 1955, they attained testimonies from very reliable resources, and yet it was not enough. Emmett Till's uncle saw the men take away his nephew and indicates in his testimony, “They shoved past me and went looking in the back bedrooms, and a minute later they dragged Bobo from his room, shaking him and sayin’ hateful things. Poor old Bobo was trying to get dressed as they dragged him to the front door” (Crowe 168). The jury hears it all by a bystander, and yet, they still see the goodness in the whites. In addition, the testimony of the deputy was barely useful. They rely so much on what he says, when really the deputy just absorbs what he listened to. In Crowes novel, the deputy tries to tell the story he obtains from the defendants and the court specified, “Your honor, this testimony has no relevance to the charges of murder for which this court is convened, and I move that it be disallowed from the jury and the trial records” (Crowe 172). They see that the deputy’s point of view is only based off what he heard and not from what he saw. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the deputy was so entrusted and no one sees that he is just repeating the same words that he acquires from the victims. The courtrooms are full of native racist whites, which have no conscience