The popular opinion in society is always the opinion of the majority of society. Due to this simple fact, minorities often are ignored when they attempt to voice their opinions and are sometimes scrutinized for it. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird many such examples exist, as well as in The Grapes of Wrath and the short story The Lottery. All three of these works, in different methods show to some extent that the …showed first 75 words of 689 total…

…showed last 75 words of 689 total…why, you're a goddamn Okie, see?" The Joads are left out and scrutinized, not for being a minority, but because they are foreigners in their own country. The three works, all in different genres of literature, all show a similar message within them. Minorities are rarely accepted and heard out. Even for the slightest reason, these people are rejected, and scrutinized. Yet they manage to survive, because they are the people and they go on.