Similarities Between To Kill A Mockingbird And 12 Angry Men

Though everybody is special in their own ways, it’s unfortunate that they can be judged by their looks, race, and ethnicity. A mind has a complex network in itself. The way one’s thought process can affect others actions, can make a significant lifesaving difference. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird and movie 12 Angry Men, the court trials and the jury, judges the characters based on the fact that they come from different backgrounds. Although the young child and Tom Robinson differ in regard of who there are as people, their trials are very similar in regard to the fact they are taken with prejudice towards the defendants and that the protagonists never gave up in hopes of justice for them. In both these stories the two defendants are very

The first similarity is in how the attitude others had for the case itself. In both of these stories the defendants were judged with extreme prejudice, either in the courtroom or in the juror’s room. People on the case couldn’t look past the skin color and backgrounds of the defendants and judge them based on who they really are were. One example of how society looked at Tom Robinson and Atticus defending him in To Kill a Mockingbird is shown by this quote from chapter 11, spoken by a neighbor, Mrs. Dubose to Atticus’s daughter Scout, “Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for!” This quote clearly represents the attitude that the society of Maycomb had over the case. Another example from the movie is when the fifth juror called the boy, “trash” because of his slum background. This shows how some of the rude jurors couldn’t look past the boy’s current state and for who he really was, to accurately judge the case. Prejudice masks the truth from being accurately

In both, To Kill a Mockingbird and 12 Angry Men, the protagonists were key characters. The story of To Kill a Mockingbird had Atticus, the protagonist, doing his best to fight a case that had very slim chances of success. As he was defending for an African American man in the 1930’s he faced a great deal of opposition from his community and court. In 12 Angry Men a character named Davis or also known as juror number eight, the protagonist, had a reasonable doubt in the guilt of a boy accused of murder. Out of twelve jurors, when taking a vote he was the only one who had chosen “not guilty”. As conversations and debates arise he uses viable evidence and details of the case to slowly persuade other members on the jury to choose not guilty and acquit the boy. The similarity ¬¬¬between the two protagonists is that both Atticus and Davis did not give up from trying to prove there defendants as ‘not guilty’. The two kept persevering. Even though Atticus did not get a chance to prove his defendant Tom Robinson to be not guilty and Davis, with the other convinced jurors, did, they both looked beyond backgrounds and skin color and avoided prejudice to truly understand and solve the