Inherit the Wind is an American play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, which debuted in 1955. The story fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials.[1][2]
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The Question and Answer section for Inherit the Wind is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Bert Cates, age twenty-four, is a "pale, thin young man" "quiet, shy, well-mannered, not particularly good-looking." Cates is in jail at the beginning of the play, arrested and about to go on trial for teaching evolution to his seventh-graders....
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Rachel Brown
Twenty-two-years old and "pretty, but not beautiful," Rachel is a second-grade teacher at...
In the trial's conclusion, the jury unanimously finds Cates guilty.
