Essay on "To Kill a Mockingbird" (Social Inequality and Racism)
Essay on the film “To Kill a Mockingbird”
(Social inequality and racism)
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” (Martin Luther King Jr.). Although there is some people nowadays who maintain prejudicial treatment of racism actually hating people of their color is unacceptable in the society of digital epoch. Evolution of society first of all means evolution of its soul and mind and obvious it’s impossible when the thoughts of society got stuck in the past century.
“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong” (Muhammad Ali). In the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” a lawyer Atticus Finch is given the task of defending an innocent man from an undeserving rape charge. Being a white man he takes the liberty of defending a black man, what is a very rare thing those days. In his case, he gives to his children and other people a great example of justice, which is the main question raised in the movie.
A person without humanity is just a creature but prejudice and inability to step over principles of racism makes him a wild animal without any feelings. Throughout all of this, Atticus is determined to raise his children with the right morals and ethics in this prejudiced society and environment. He’s doing all his best to teach his children what is love and sympathy, because it’s a lack of it in the world.
What makes you a real personality according to Atticus thoughts and beliefs is always to be ready to help those who need it, to set on the rights of those who can’t do it by themselves and simply to be just and fair concerning him and others. There is an establishing shot in the dead of night in which Atticus reads a book under a lamp, surrounded by darkness and engulfed by the lone light of his lamp. It gives a metaphoric impression that he is a man protecting
(Social inequality and racism)
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” (Martin Luther King Jr.). Although there is some people nowadays who maintain prejudicial treatment of racism actually hating people of their color is unacceptable in the society of digital epoch. Evolution of society first of all means evolution of its soul and mind and obvious it’s impossible when the thoughts of society got stuck in the past century.
“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong” (Muhammad Ali). In the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” a lawyer Atticus Finch is given the task of defending an innocent man from an undeserving rape charge. Being a white man he takes the liberty of defending a black man, what is a very rare thing those days. In his case, he gives to his children and other people a great example of justice, which is the main question raised in the movie.
A person without humanity is just a creature but prejudice and inability to step over principles of racism makes him a wild animal without any feelings. Throughout all of this, Atticus is determined to raise his children with the right morals and ethics in this prejudiced society and environment. He’s doing all his best to teach his children what is love and sympathy, because it’s a lack of it in the world.
What makes you a real personality according to Atticus thoughts and beliefs is always to be ready to help those who need it, to set on the rights of those who can’t do it by themselves and simply to be just and fair concerning him and others. There is an establishing shot in the dead of night in which Atticus reads a book under a lamp, surrounded by darkness and engulfed by the lone light of his lamp. It gives a metaphoric impression that he is a man protecting