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Analyzing the Wind Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Plot: †¢ Cates is thrown into jail for teaching the beginning of the world contrary to what the bible says. †¢ Brady is coming to Hillsboro for the trail. †¢ Hornbeck announces he will bring Drummond to defend Cates. †¢ Both sides choose the remaining members of the jury. †¢ Cates almost pulls out but doesn’t. †¢ Howard is called to testify. †¢ Rachel is called to testify and the end of Brady’s questioning emotionally destroys her. So Cates doesn’t let Drummond question her, loosing a big part of the case. †¢ The judge rejects all of Drummond’s â€Å"witnesses.† †¢ Drummond calls Brady to testimony about the bible. †¢ Drummond uses the bible and Brady’s testimony on is favor and turns many followers at least less biased. †¢ The court found Cates guilty and sentenced to a hundred dollars fine †¢ Drummond wanted to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. †¢ Brady while giving a speech to get his followers back died. †¢ Drummond took both the theory of evolution and the bible home. Characters: Drummond: Supposed atheist, defendant lawyer and friend of Matthew Brady. Brady: Religious leader, â€Å"lawyer† against Cates and presidential candidate. Cates: Schoolteacher accused of teaching the theory of evolution, Rachel’s boyfriend and believed the church had some wrong thoughts about some things. Hornbeck: Cynical reporter, paid all the expenses of the defendant, hated ignorance, hence he hated Hillsboro. Setting: Hillsboro, around summer of 1925, July to be exact. Conflict: The main character’s difficulties were mainly each other, or the way they saw the world. Drummond’s greatest difficulty is to open people’s minds about everything. Brady’s difficulty was to prove God or the bible right against such a powerful speaker, as was Drummond. And Cates’ conflict is to prove to everybody he has not done wrong by teaching the theory of evolution. Point of View: It is a play, so there is no point of view. Or there’s everybody’s point of view. Themes: †¢ One should always keep an open mind to new ideas, no matter how absurd they may sound. (Drummond says it all the way through the book). †¢ People with different point of views may be thinking in the parallel but seem to differ. (The bible tells the story of the beginning of the world not in the same way as Darwin’s’ Theory of Evolution does. That doesn’t mean one of them is incorrect, simply, the story is told from different points of view. The Theory of Evolution is a fact book.