Film Analysis Essay On To Kill A Mockingbird
Cheryl Richardson
Mr. Evans
Com 120
19 November 2010
Essay
To kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a fiction movie that drew an affectionate and detailed portrait of Maycomb, Alabama, a small sleepy, depression-era town during the 1930’s. The main plot of the movie surrounds the trial of an unjustly accused black male who was defended by Scout’s father, a respected lawyer in the town of Maycomb. Covering a period of time during Scout’s and Jem’s childhood in Alabama, the movie reflects the details of a southern small town life and examines the painful unjust consequences of ignorance, prejudice, and hate as well as values of courage, honor, and decency. Harper Lee tries to display that what appears may not always …show more content…
One of the main themes in To kill a Mockingbird is “racism.” Racism is described in Interpersonal Messages book on (page 116, chapter 5) as a discrimination against one another based on skin color. The word racism can be divided into two groups as explained in Interpersonal Messages in the same chapter one being Individual racism and the other Institutional racism all these roles were displayed in the movie. First, discrimination based on the color of someone’s skin, Tom Robinson was accused of a crime he did not commit and found guilty of raping a white woman, Named Mayella Ewell not because he committed the crime, the evidence as we saw them on the movie was very much contrary, but because of the color of his skin, not because he actual raped her. Apparently in Maycomb courtroom when it came to a black person word verses a white person’s word, the black person always lost the battle. However, most of the people of the white origin thought and believed within …show more content…
(Chapter 2 page 107) During Tom Robinson’s trial Mayella had lied under oath that Tom had raped and beat her, Mayella’s father Bob Ewell had also lied under oath in Maycomb County court during Mr. Tom’s trial about Tom raping and beating his daughter; when he knew that he was the who had done these bad things to Mayella himself. These are examples of how people mislead people into believing the untruth, and even though Mr. Ewell and his daughter were found to have been lying in court Mr. Robinson was still found guilty of a crime he did not
Mr. Evans
Com 120
19 November 2010
Essay
To kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a fiction movie that drew an affectionate and detailed portrait of Maycomb, Alabama, a small sleepy, depression-era town during the 1930’s. The main plot of the movie surrounds the trial of an unjustly accused black male who was defended by Scout’s father, a respected lawyer in the town of Maycomb. Covering a period of time during Scout’s and Jem’s childhood in Alabama, the movie reflects the details of a southern small town life and examines the painful unjust consequences of ignorance, prejudice, and hate as well as values of courage, honor, and decency. Harper Lee tries to display that what appears may not always …show more content…
One of the main themes in To kill a Mockingbird is “racism.” Racism is described in Interpersonal Messages book on (page 116, chapter 5) as a discrimination against one another based on skin color. The word racism can be divided into two groups as explained in Interpersonal Messages in the same chapter one being Individual racism and the other Institutional racism all these roles were displayed in the movie. First, discrimination based on the color of someone’s skin, Tom Robinson was accused of a crime he did not commit and found guilty of raping a white woman, Named Mayella Ewell not because he committed the crime, the evidence as we saw them on the movie was very much contrary, but because of the color of his skin, not because he actual raped her. Apparently in Maycomb courtroom when it came to a black person word verses a white person’s word, the black person always lost the battle. However, most of the people of the white origin thought and believed within …show more content…
(Chapter 2 page 107) During Tom Robinson’s trial Mayella had lied under oath that Tom had raped and beat her, Mayella’s father Bob Ewell had also lied under oath in Maycomb County court during Mr. Tom’s trial about Tom raping and beating his daughter; when he knew that he was the who had done these bad things to Mayella himself. These are examples of how people mislead people into believing the untruth, and even though Mr. Ewell and his daughter were found to have been lying in court Mr. Robinson was still found guilty of a crime he did not