Compare And Contrast Inherit The Wind And The Hills Of Zion

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There are many similarities in differences between the play "Inherit the Wind" and "Hills of Zion." The hills of Zion was written by H.L. Mencken while covering the "Scopes 'Monkey' Trial".He was a reporter for the Baltimore Herald writing a report about the trial. The trial at hand was between The State of Tennessee vs John Thomas Scopes. In his piece, he headed down to Dayton, where he was met by a newspaper women from Chattanooga, where Mencken learned some of the ways of the overly religious people of the town by discovering the sinful treats of coca cola. "The newspaper woman, idling along and observing that the stranger was badly used by the heat, invited her to step into the shop for a glass of Coca-Cola. The invitation brought forth …show more content…

There is, of course, no reason why it should have shaken him. He has these hillbillies locked up in his pen and he knows it. His brand is on them. He is at home among them. Since his earliest days, indeed, his chief strength has been among the folk of remote hills and forlorn and lonely farms. Now with his political aspirations all gone to pot, he turns to them for religious consolations. They understand his peculiar imbecilities. His nonsense is their ideal of sense. When he deluges them with his theologic bilge they rejoice like pilgrims disporting in the river Jordan…." He states that the attorney is foolish and people seem to be not noticing it as he continues to win. The town of Hillsboro was supposed to be a copy of the town of Dayton, Tennessee, in which the trial was held at. Hills of Zion described it as: "In and around the Hillsboro Courthouse. The foreground is the actual courtroom, with jury box, judge's bench and a scattering of trial-scarred chairs and counsel

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