How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History

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Stories can be dangerous for they can trap one’s thinking in a narrow mind, when the author’s biased opinion influences one. To Kill the Mockingbird by Harper Lee and “How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History” by Vox both demonstrate the danger of the story through the author’s influence over the readers on topics. In To Kill the Mockingbird, Lee demonstrates how stories like myths can be influential, such as how the Radley pecan nuts is “lay untouched by the children” for it could kill them (Lee 11). Town people heard terrifying stories of Radley family which manipulated their brains to think that even an innocent pecan tree was dangerous. This caused the townsmen to avoid the pecan tree, for the stories had a powerful impact on

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