Inherit the Wind Summary

Inherit the Wind took place in a small tow called Hillsboro. It was a very religios town where all teachings in school systems were based on the bible. That was everything thing that people ever knew and it was an extravagant sin to actually think. This happened to be in the time frame though where Darwin's theory was beginningto scatter itself through out the world. And a younger teacher in the system at Hillsboro started a new revolution in the town and taught his students using the Darwin theory instead of the bible. This upset the town and people accused him of being associated with the devil and they but him in court to testify against him. The town paid to have this great lawyer,Mathew Harrison Brady, who ran for president three times and didn't get it any of the times but, he was also a very "godly" man. The towns people got exited and thought for sure they would win the trial with out any trouble , but little did they know a lawyer from Chicago, Henry Dummond, was coming to represent This teacher, Cates. Drummond was an awesome lawyer as well, but the towns people made him to be the devil, especially the peacher, head man of the town, Reverand Brown. But of course there was a twist to this, the reverand's daughter, Rachael, was in love with Cates. When they started the trials finally a student as questioned and Rachael was questioned, but she didn't want to be. This ended up proving that Cates was in fact teaching different than bible studies, but Drummond was on a mission to prove that this wasn't a bad thing and that people should know about this and have the right to think about htese kind of things due to free will. Drummond tried to get scientists on the stand but the judge was bias and didn't allow it, so finally Drummond ran out of witnesses but he managed to get his opponent, Brady, on the stand. Drummond ended up influencing the jury and the crowd by usung references of the bible and comparing it to real science. Drummond and Cates worked the crowd and Mr. Brady and actually made them think. In the end technically Brady won the trail, he also ended up dying, but Drummond and Cates influenced the town and got their case bumped up to a federal trial. They won in their hearts by loosening the grounds on which they stood on and helping those similar trials in the future. And in the end Rachael and Cates decided to leave the town together, the trial gave Rachael the courage to stand up to her father, and leave. And Henry Drummond wasn't revealed to be the devil everyone thought. He still knew and believed in the bible but he fought for the cause of the case, the right to think.