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Comparison Of Inherit The Wind By Jerome Lawrence And Robert E. Lee
Have you ever had your perspective changed or tested? In the play Inherit The Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee a whole town's perspective was being put on trial, because of one man, Bert Cates. He decided he was going to teach his students about evolution, from the book of Charles Darwin. The community was shook up because of it. Only because of one man. One man's influence on 20 or so students, affected a small town and eventually all of America. One man's influence does have the impact to change society, even with having a firm perspective on the scenario from the beginning.

Cates was a religious man until something radical happened to his life; one of his best students dieing. After this traumatic event Cates didn't know how a

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