The text’s To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is a story about a man who was accused of something he didn't do. And the drama Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a drama about two star-crossed lovers who can't be with each other due to family issues. Although one might think that these two stories don’t seem to be connected in any way, one might just have to take a deeper look. In the two texts To Kill A Mockingbird and Romeo and Juliet, the separation of groups between race and families demonstrated how inequality of one's race and judgment of one's choice of a partner can result in negative endings, revealing the need to accept one another regardless of race or background.
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An obvious difference that one can point out is the time the two texts take place in. Romeo and Juliet takes place around the 1590’s, in Verona, Italy. To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the 1930’s, in Maycomb, Alabama. Although both stories end with death, the cause of death is very different. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Tom Robinson is shot while he is running away. In the story of Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters have a tragic death. Romeo finds Juliet “dead” right before she wakes up, but he is not aware that she is not dead. This leads him to drink poison that he bought to kill himself. When Juliet finally wakes up from her “death” she finds Romeo dead and tries to find a way to die as well. She tries to drink the same poison that Romeo took, but there is none left. So she then tries to kiss him to see if there is a drop of poison on his lips. Then she hears Paris’s watchmen start to enter so she has one last option to die, Romeo's knife, and as she gets ready to die she says, “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.” revealing to the reader that she has just killed herself with Romeo's knife to be with him