Freedom of Thought

Going with Inherit the Wind's free thought aspect, other books we've read this year that deal with thinking freely are The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The Crucible and Huck Finn. The three books share characters that all believe in the utilization of free though, aside from the actual free thought motif in each respective book, such as Thoreau refusing to give up what he believed in and went to jail as a show that his mind wouldn't be changed, John Proctor seeing what Abigail was doing the whole time was a sham even though everyone else thought she was innocent, and Huck, contrary to popular belief in the South, thinking that slavery wasn't good. However, the differences among these similarities was the cause that each character had free-thinking beliefs about, considering there are discernible discrepancies in slavery, witchcraft and Evolution/Creation.