Mob Groups In To Kill A Mockingbird

When in a group or a mob, people tend to act differently: stronger, stern, bigger than if they were to be there without the people around them. All the other people around them help hide their weakness, but sometimes those people are weak on the inside, and can be easily made insecure. Groups usually try to back each other up to make the target feel smaller and weaker, but sometimes they can be easily defeated. In the book “To Kill a Mocking Bird” on example of a group of people is when Calpurnia took Jem and Scout to the First Purchase church.(The one for the black population.) When Jem and Scout got there, someone who was Lula told Calpurnia that she wasn’t supposed to bring white kids to the church and from even just her saying that it gave Jem and Scout a feeling from not belonging there. Jem suggested that they should go home because they weren’t welcome there. Scout felt that from the people that she/they were being advanced upon. After that a group of coloured people were there, but they were friendly and invited them in. It doesn’t always have to be lots of people to make someone feel insecure. Another time in the book where there was a mob or a group of people was when Atticus was sitting outside of the jailhouse. A mob of people wanted to come
The mob can be of many people line in front of the jailhouse, or like with Lula, she seemed to set the scene herself and be causing all the trouble. In the book the most common way to drain a mob is to make them feel insecure, embarrass them, and prove them wrong. In front of the church Calpurnia told Lula “isn’t it the same God we are worshipping?”. By that it made Lula feel like she was causing trouble and left. In front of the jailhouse Scout asked Mr. Cunningham how is entailment was going which embarrassed him and also by telling him to say “hi” to his son. After that he told everyone to get going and