To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee and Max directed by Boaz Yakin both discusses the idea of how people being afraid of things they don’t understand and how, despite the misunderstandings, when there is trust the barrier of fear is destroyed. At the beginning of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Boo Radley is not a human being to Scout as her brother, Jem, describes him as the …show more content…
“malevolent phantom” following with a description-
"Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained - if you ate an animal raw…."
Jem continually describes Boo’s features.
This evidently exposes the children’s nativity, because of their nativity this leads them to false information, consequently leads to their juvenile imagination. By this imagination Scout and Jem were afraid of him. Subsequently Harper Lee wants us to understand at the beginning that it is natural for many kids’ fear seem mystifying or irrationality. Lee is also making a point that we through understanding it’ll have to come along with trust. This breaks the walls of fearing one and another. This is best shown at the end of the text where Scout wasn’t frightened by Boo Radley anymore, she had learnt to understand and respect. She politely greeted “Hey Boo,” and Boo moves away from the shadows to approach Scout, which describe two individuals establishing trust and respect to each
other.
This connects with what the director Boaz Yakin filmed on Max. Throughout the whole film he expresses the negative relationship between the canine pet, Max, and the father, Ray. Both dislikes and fears each other at the beginning of the film. Ray hates Max, as he was informed “Max turned on Kyle and caused him to discharge his weapon on himself, leading to his death...”