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Individually, people can be decent and kind; however, in a mob, people can be judgmental and cruel. In the classic by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, several mob scenes portray the cruelty carried in numbers, but also exhibits that that any one person within t ....

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.... home. Similarly in the courtroom, another moral dilemma arose: this time within the jury. Once more, a group of twelve men came with an intent of charging Tom Robinson guilty. No where did it say the bias jury initially had a guilty verdict in mind, but with the attitude towards blacks in Maycomb County, Lee made it bluntly obvious that they had no intention of pronouncing Tom innocent. In the book Atticus made it very clear, "In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins." Just as in the horde outside the jailhouse, another member of the Cunningham family played the outsider of this group. Atticus l ....