To Kill A Mockingbird Bar Scene Analysis
The scene with the street riots in Virginia establishes the conflict between the two races in this environment and many other places similar to it, like that of Maycomb County (the setting of To Kill A Mockingbird). The way the two races are separated on opposites sides in the scene symbolises what the way of life is for each both the white and black people.
This is similar to in the novel how the whites were prejudiced against the blacks, and the separations between the two races, but there is never a time where we read about the blacks physically retaliating to the whites remarks or action in the novel. We do however read about the areas in which each race lives and how separated from the other one each is.
In the bar scene when Mr Bill Yoast is addressing the football players and their father's the audience can single who is prejudiced and who is fair, Garry and his father for example are the most public racists there. This environment didn’t only exclude coloured people, but women were missing also, the bar scene usually seen as a mans area is dominated by the men and boys only. …show more content…
This is similar to ‘To Kill A mockingbird’ in different situations where blacks and women are put down, or left out.
In the courts jury for example, twelve white, men, this one situation includes both racism and sexism.
However the differences between the film and novel come down to the improvements different generations have made to overcome racism and sexism, from the 1930’s to the 1970’s. Women are more accepted in the 70’s and the government under Kennedy’s policy is working hard to cooperating coloured men and women into the workforce, which is now called positive discrimination, which basically means that the government was choosing the black people because yes they were qualified, but mainly because they were
black.
The character Lewis after only appearing on camera for 10 seconds establishes himself as a neutral character that doesn’t care if a person is black or white just wants to fit in. This innocence lets him judge a person on their character and make the right decision. However quite similar to scout in his characteristics of innocence, Lewis is also similar to Dill in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, Lewis looks like he might be uncomfortable in his own skin (over weight) like scout is uncomfortable acting girly and would much prefer to just be one of the boys.
On the bus and in the dorm rooms, coach Boone breaks the separated buses and at the same time gradually breaks the barrier between the white boys and the black boys by allocating them a partner of the other race to sit with and bunk with. This is different in the novel as no one had the power to control people to mix unless they wanted to, but similar to Dolphus Raymond (the thought town drunk) who is married with children to a coloured women.
The Church setting symbolises unity between the boys, as they’re all standing under the same roof and being in the same situation as the others. The church symbolises harmony and peace, which is ironic because the reason they’re inside there is because they’re doing the opposite between each other
This is similar to in the novel how the whites were prejudiced against the blacks, and the separations between the two races, but there is never a time where we read about the blacks physically retaliating to the whites remarks or action in the novel. We do however read about the areas in which each race lives and how separated from the other one each is.
In the bar scene when Mr Bill Yoast is addressing the football players and their father's the audience can single who is prejudiced and who is fair, Garry and his father for example are the most public racists there. This environment didn’t only exclude coloured people, but women were missing also, the bar scene usually seen as a mans area is dominated by the men and boys only. …show more content…
This is similar to ‘To Kill A mockingbird’ in different situations where blacks and women are put down, or left out.
In the courts jury for example, twelve white, men, this one situation includes both racism and sexism.
However the differences between the film and novel come down to the improvements different generations have made to overcome racism and sexism, from the 1930’s to the 1970’s. Women are more accepted in the 70’s and the government under Kennedy’s policy is working hard to cooperating coloured men and women into the workforce, which is now called positive discrimination, which basically means that the government was choosing the black people because yes they were qualified, but mainly because they were
black.
The character Lewis after only appearing on camera for 10 seconds establishes himself as a neutral character that doesn’t care if a person is black or white just wants to fit in. This innocence lets him judge a person on their character and make the right decision. However quite similar to scout in his characteristics of innocence, Lewis is also similar to Dill in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, Lewis looks like he might be uncomfortable in his own skin (over weight) like scout is uncomfortable acting girly and would much prefer to just be one of the boys.
On the bus and in the dorm rooms, coach Boone breaks the separated buses and at the same time gradually breaks the barrier between the white boys and the black boys by allocating them a partner of the other race to sit with and bunk with. This is different in the novel as no one had the power to control people to mix unless they wanted to, but similar to Dolphus Raymond (the thought town drunk) who is married with children to a coloured women.
The Church setting symbolises unity between the boys, as they’re all standing under the same roof and being in the same situation as the others. The church symbolises harmony and peace, which is ironic because the reason they’re inside there is because they’re doing the opposite between each other