In my opinion, what this says about human nature is that
we are sort of drawn to the gruesome things in life. It's like people slowing down to
check out a nasty car crash on the freeway.
In Maycomb, the
trial of Tom Robinson was going to be sensational for sure. It had everything that
reality TV has and more. It had sex and it had violence, for example. In addition, it
was likely to show someone getting put back in his place and people like to watch
revenge taken on people they think are bad.
So it was like
an interesting show with sex and violence and race but it was also like a car wreck
because people could watch someone on trial for his life and likely to
lose.
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