The Similarities Between 'To Kill A Mockingbird And Emmett Till'
he case of Tom Robinson in the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” and the report of Emmett Till are very similar, and in some cases quite different. Some similarities are the prejudice people in the south, both court cases where there were all white, male jurors and judges, and the side with blacks on it always lost, even though they should’ve won. Some differences are the time period, the case of Emmett Till took place 20 years after the Tom Robinson case, in Robinson’s case, he was the defendant, and in Till’s, he was the prosecutor, Robinson’s case was a one time thing, where Till’s was revisited in 2004.
One unfair thing in both of these cases was the court having all white jurors and judge, this gave them a huge disadvantage and made it very