Category: Book Inherit The Wind

The first scene of Act I begins with a boy named Howard who is scouring the ground for worms and taunting his companion, Melinda, with it. He says that her family was once a pack of worms too just like everyone else. Melinda runs off. The Hillsboro minister’s daughter, Rachel, comes and asks Mr. Meeker,…

Themes & Symbols: Inherit The Wind Essay As probably the best courtroom dramas of the twentieth century, Inherit the Wind is based on the famous, Scopes Monkey Trial. The play was printed virtually thirty years afterward and takes original authority in varying the true-life elements of the court case. The central conflict of the play…