The popular opinion in society is always the opinion of the majority of society. Due to this simple fact, minorities often are ignored when they attempt to voice their opinions and are sometimes scrutinized for it. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird many such examples exist, as well as in The Grapes of Wrath and the short story The Lottery. All three of these works, in different methods show to some extent that the voices of minorities are often just whispers among a roaring society. Marginal members of society are particularly mocked and maimed. Tom Robinson for example, from To Kill a Mockingbird, a black man accused of raping a white woman is convicted even though circumstantial evidence is all but presented. His lawyer, Atticus Finch describes the case in this quote, "In our courts when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wi....

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