A Time To Kill A Mockingbird Comparative Essay

Understanding perspective is essential to understanding people. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird presents this idea in multiple passages of her writing. It can be seen in the rough, unknown troubles that people face despite their wrongful actions. As well as the rumours that are untrue and give complete false impressions of people. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird uses these topics to illustrate the dangers of judging others before getting to know them.

Perspectives can change beliefs in many ways. In Harper Lee’s novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, Bob Ewell hears and sees Atticus defending Tom Robinson who is black, therefore, he believes Atticus ‘loves niggers’. Jem, Scout, and Dill have never seen Boo Radley come out at day and they hear rumors that Boo only comes out at night. People believe rumors and their perspectives until they get the truth and change their beliefs.

The classic book “To Kill a Mockingbird” and the movie “Remember the Titans” deals with the concept of social injustice in terms of racial prejudice through the setting and characters. Both stories took place in a time where in Southern areas, people were treated very poorly based on their race. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, one of the main characters, Atticus Finch, was a white lawyer who was fighting to acquit a black man, Tom Robinson. Tom was being accused of sexually assaulting a white woman named Mayella Ewell, even though a lot of evidence in the case indicated that he was innocent. The jury declared Tom was guilty because of the racial prejudice against him.

The movie, To Kill a Mockingbird, was the film adaptation of Harper Lee’s award-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The movie was two hours and ten minutes long, which took up three entire English classes including a discussion. It was extremely long time period to give up, so why did Doc choose to watch the movie?

I grew up in a home where my parents taught us to serve our country, community and those around us. They taught me through example, my father was a scout leader when I was a child. He often took me camping and to merit badge Pow Wow’s. As a boy I began to dream about becoming a boy scout. When I became old enough I joined the cub scouts. While in Cub scouts I learned about being part of the pack, about working together to accomplish large projects, to work together to accomplish a larger goal. Then when I was older I was able to join the boy scouts they taught me about being a citizen in the community, about being a good neighbor. They taught me about doing a good turn daily, and being prepared. When I was 13, I became a life scout. Being a life scout is not anything special, other than I was able to start working on my eagle project.

To Kill a Mockingbird was a very influential book in the eyes of a growing young woman in America in the 1930’s from the eyes of Jean Louise as a child and Jean reminiscing or reflecting as an adult about the past. Mayella Ewell was a white woman who was looked down upon by her own race and the African Americans were too scared to talk to her. Mayella was looked at to be powerless over her own life and others. If she is, then why does she win the case against Tom Robinson? In the town of Maycomb race, class, and gender played larger roles than some may think let's determine how.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee uses Atticus Finch’s character and setting to describe the conflict of racism and Finch’s moral conviction to do the right thing. The setting takes place in the 1950’s in idyllic town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the time of segregation and prejudice, white people treated black people very unfairly. Atticus, the protagonist worked as a lawyer. Atticus believes all men are created equal and entitled to a fair trial no matter the color of a man’s skin. A black man Tom Robinson is accused of raping a white woman, named Mayella Ewells. Atticus chooses to defend him against the town’s wishes. The whole town is against Atticus, who believed Tom was innocent and entitled to a fair trial under the constitution. Tom Robinson didn’t have a fair trial because of his skin color. Everybody in the whole court had already judged him

Both The Scottsboro Trial and To Kill a Mockingbird show how the blacks were compared to the whites.  They were separated because of their skin color.  Racial segregation was a key subject in Tom Robinson's trial. In the book it explains that his case was hopeless due to the fact that he had to pass a racist jury.  The Scottsboro case wouldn’t even let blacks in the courtroom.  “On May 8, 1933 a crowd of 4,000 people marched more than 6 miles through steady rain in Washington D.C. demanding freedom for the boys and other prisoners” (Linder).  Even the Communists were on the boys side.   Lynching was illegal, and outside of the courthouse made it completely inappropriate with the way men are supposed to be tried, however this was a normal thing when the blacks had trials in the South.   “When people lynched in Southern states it was not just having their “nose in the tree” blacks

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”. Discuss this quote from Atticus in relation to 3 characters from the novel.

Harper lee has presented racism in the novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by describing how blacks live and are treated harshly. The court case of Tom Robinson, which is the main part of the story is a metaphor that Harper Lee has created of the situation in the 1960 's. Things were not stable at the time and Tom 's case is just one example of the racial discrimination the blacks were facing during this time.

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird a major theme is the loss of innocence. Whether from emotional abuse, racial prejudice or learning, Boo, Tom, and Scout all lose their innocence in one sense or another. The prejudice that each character endures leads to their loss. Through the responses of Boo, Tom, and Scout, Harper Lee shows how each character responded differently to their loss of innocence.

One of the differences is that people portrayed in Tom Robinson’s case had very different perspectives than their Scottsboro counterparts. The judge in Tom Robinson’s trial had little opinion on which side would win. While in the Scottsboro trial, the judge wanted to protect the rights of the Scottsboro boys. The attorneys in the cases were also very different. The defence attorney of Tom Robinson, Atticus, was a simple but cunning man whereas the Scottsboro boys’ defence attorney was Samuel Leibowitz who was very famous for winning almost every case he fought in.

In 1962, Robert Mulligan made a movie version of Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Both the book and the movie are set in the southern region of America and tell the story of ... To Kill a Mockingbird is to destroy innocence. Jem, Tom Robinson, Dill, and Boo are Mockingbirds. Innocence who have been injured or affected by the contact of evil.

In the movie, as well as the book, there are multiple times where the rhetorical strategy logos is used. An example of one of them is when Atticus says, “The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place.” I know it is logos because it is a fact that the state hasn’t given any medical evidence to prove that Tom is guilty of the crime he is being charged for. Atticus is using this fact to try to persuade some people with logic that it wasn’t Tom who did anything to Mayella. I think that this part was better in the movie because the actor who played as Atticus made it more dramatic which made the whole situation more effective and serious.

Both the text and the film are set in the southern states of America, “To Kill a Mockingbird” in Maycomb Alabama in the 1930’s and “A Time to Kill” in Mississippi in the 1990’s. This was intended by Harper Lee and Joel Schumacher due to racial discrimination being a prominent issue in these eras as well as the southern states being known for their belief in white supremacy. In both towns in the text and the film there were definite segregations between white and black people. This allowed both Lee and Schumacher to easily portray the idea of racism to their intended audience. In the text “To Kill a Mockingbird” Lee utilises a variety of language techniques to convey the idea of racism to his readers. Whereas in the film “A Time to Kill” the director, Schumacher, uses language features as well as a range of stylistic devices to effectively present racism as a key idea.