Similarities Between Emmett Till And To Kill A Mockingbird

The Similarities of To Kill a Mockingbird and the Emmett Till Murder Case There have been countless occasions of unfairness and violence in American history between whites and African Americans. Where whites did not think African Americans lives mattered. They were seen as people to be enslaved and working in hot fields at every time of the day. When rights were given to the African Americans they were still not equal, there was still so much ferocity towards them. In Lee’s novel she conveys what it was like for the blacks when peace was just beginning. She shows a more magnified look of what it was like in that time. Harper Lee had grown up in this world of unshared rights and injustices, such as the Emmett Till murder case. Emmett Till had done something that was seen as not okay, and he was punished for it, punished in one of the worst ways possible.”I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till.”(Mamie Till Thinking, Emmett Till, Needed). Like Emmett Till, Tom Robinson was treated unfairly and was killed at the hands of whites. The Emmett Till case affected Harper Lee so much that she decided to write about it in her book only putting it a bit differently, as Tom Robinson is the punished one in To

Emmett Till was kidnapped, brutally tortured and murdered. His body was beaten very badly, and was anchored to the bottom of the river. Emmett was at a shop when he whistled at a young lady, the women told her brother and her husband Milam and Bryant. Four days later Milam and Bryant then kidnapped Emmett. Like Emmett, Tom Robinson in To kill a Mockingbird had did the wrong thing that made everything worse. Tom told everyone at court that he helped Mayella because he felt sorry for her. “Quote here”(Lee page no.) These two instances, in both reality and fiction, are in the notion that some white people thought it was ok to kill a black person who said or did something that made them