Examples Of Majority Rule In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Majority rule is easy until you have to look at yourself in a mirror, is one of the many themes in To Kill a Mockingbird. First and foremost, when Atticus says on page 140 “The one thing that doesn’t follow majority rule is one person’s conscience.” it proves how hard majority rule can be. Atticus decides to represent Tom even though there is little chance of winning and he is putting his life and his children’s lives at stake. He says to justify doing this “before I live with other people I have to live with myself. In the same light, Atticus stays at the jail cell all night long and protects an angry mob from attacking Tom. When Atticus was at the jail cell there were many people who disagreed with him about representing Tom. Even so, he

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