In the works To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and “The Death of Emmett Till” by Bob Dylan, there are several similarities and differences. First, the two passages are similar because of the mood communicated. The mood is communicated in this quote by Bob Dylan “This boy’s fateful tragedy, you all should remember well” (Dylan). Dylan creates the mood by using the words “fateful” and “tragedy”. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson’s problem has a similar dark mood due to the way Harper Lee describes the situation. Both works emphasize the dark moods when describing the stories of Emmett Till and Tom Robinson. Next, the passages differ in outcomes in people. This is evident when Dylan writes, “He was born to die” (Dylan). Emmett Till was