Analysis Of Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

Introduction: To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that was written in 1960 around characters in the town of Maycomb where a black man is accused of raping a white woman and the case is to be handled by the best attorney in Maycomb by the name of Atticus Finch. Atticus has a son named Jem and a daughter named Scout, and Jem and Scout see the world in innocent eyes, as the story is narrated from Scout’s point of view. It is later that both Scout and Jem will find out that things are not as good as they seem and that many things are more different and difficult than what they know. There are different things that takes place between the film and the book that makes a difference to the readers of the book or watchers of the film. The book gives more vivid details at to everything that is taken place while somethings are not in the movie the books vivid details answers questions that the film cannot answer.

I selected this book because its the best book I have ever read. I read To Kill A Mockingbird last year and my class wrote an essay about this book, since I already know so much about this book I thought it would be a nice and quick read. I thought it would be a great enjoyment to refresh my memory of this epic book. I watched the movie soon after I read the whole book and it was very fun to pick out the not-placed and wrong-worded parts of the movie. To Kill A Mockingbird is about a sister, brother, and their friend Dill finding items in their neighbors tree, soon after this their father was the lawyer of a case on an african american.

To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time to Kill also have some rather large differences. Even though they both feature the trial of a black man betrayed by justice they end in a rather different fashion. To Kill a Mockingbird sees Tom Robinson shot to death while attempting to escape prison after he decides that there's no way he'll ever see a fair trial. A Time to Kill ends rather differently considering Carl Lee Hailey gets off without any consequences due to his being declared not guilty by reason of insanity. The startling difference in the outcomes of each trial changes the message of these stories. To Kill a Mockingbird becomes a tragic story about the death of a man without a chance; while A Time to Kill is a, mildly, happier film about a man who seeks and finds justice and is pronounced innocent by a jury of his peers.

Jem and Scout, throughout “To Kill A Mockingbird,” learn to consider things from other people’s perspectives. Atticus, Jem and Scout’s father, says “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” (Lee 39). They learn this through experiences with their neighbor Boo Radley as they mature beyond their years. At the beginning of the novel, Jem and Scout make fun of Boo and assume that all of the rumors going around about him are true. However, later on in the story the children grow an admiration for Boo and learn to understand him. As they matured, Jem and Scout naturally learned many life lessons of appreciation, respect, and courage

Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is set in a small Southern United States community called Maycomb during the Great Depression era. The whole book primarily revolves around segregation and racism and how it relates to Maycomb’s history. It eventually leads to the trial of Tom Robinson where he is accused of beating up and raping Mayella Ewell. Even though it was clear that Tom Robinson did not do anything wrong he was convicted by an all white jury simply because he was black. The trial of Tom Robinson and its verdict shows an example of how segregation in the court system prevents fair trials from occurring.

Although the plots and concepts of To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time to Kill are alike, I believe A Time to Kill to be a superior film. For example, in the movie, the story was handled and presented more effectively; there was an obvious effort put into making the story one that would hit the audience hard, it was not rushed and messy, and, in general, it was developed much better. While watching the movie adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, I did not feel the fondness I felt for the characters while reading the novel. As I stated prior, I found the film was rushing through the story. The trial originally took up many pages in the book, but, in the movie, it seemed to go by very quickly. Plenty of details were left out as well; Alexandra Finch, Atticus’ sister, played a large role in the children’s lives in the book. In the movie, though, she was nowhere to be seen. This is just one of many things that have been left out that were important to the novel. In general, A Time to Kill is a better made film with a higher budget and dramatic storytelling. To Kill a Mockingbird was certainly not an awful movie, per se, but, if you were to ask my opinion, the attempt to pull at the heartstrings the way the novel did was a rather fruitless one.

To kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee. The story takes place in the 1930s in the town of Maycomb. The main conflict involves a lawyer named Atticus who is defending a black man named Thomas Robertson. This task proves to be difficult due to the racism and bigotry of the town. Readers usually conclude that since Atticus is following the law and giving Tom Robertson a fair trial instead of simply assuming guilt he is a good role model for lawyers.

The authors of both the book To Kill a Mockingbird and the movie A Time to kill, explore the idea of racism, through violence. Violence was present because of racism that existed within the communities in which both texts were set; people did not like other races and expressed this through violence towards them. White people felt that because of the colour of their skin, they were always good, if something bad happened

To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, allows us to look back in time to the 1930s and view the everyday lives of both black and white people during the Great Depression. Published in 1960, the novel is written to show us, the reader, what living was like in the 1930s by exploring the lives of a lower income white family and the life of a black man. Being that the book took place in the 1930s, racism is a prominent subject that frequently appears throughout the subject. Atticus Finch, a white man, is a lawyer who has to stand up for a black man when he is immorally accused of raping a white woman. It can arguably be said that Atticus Finch is not a racist because he may of had his own prejudice, but He still fought with an unwavering determination to try and prove that Tom Robinson was innocent, Atticus also always treated Cal, his maid who was black, with that of an equal status to a white person, and also when Tom Robinson died, he personally came to tell his family that he was dead.

Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, was born in 1928. She made an idea due to racism in her era of a novel she wanted to write. She came up with a fictional story that teaches valuable life lessons. Atticus, the main protagonist, exemplifies the growing resistance to racism in the time period. The book takes place in the 1930’s but was published in 1960 so it brought in current ideals about equality.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee illustrates an Alabama town during 1933 in which Tom, a black man was wrongfully accused of raping a white woman. The book follows a family, the Finches, while they learn and grow through this traumatizing event. Jim and Scout's father, Atticus Finch, represents the black man who was wrongly accused of the raping. Harper Lee related the problem of racism and discrimination in a personal and relatable way.

In the classic To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a book set in the 1940’s during the Great Depression, Atticus Finch serves as the core of the novel by displaying a character of stability, humility, compassion, and high moral standards as he defends an innocent black man being prosecuted for a rape he did not commit because of the color of his skin.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. John Grisham obviously subscribed to this point of view. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee was published in 1960 and is recognized as a timeless classic in American literature. Since the book was published, it has inspired many people to write stories and direct movies similar to this classic. A story containing many similarities is A Time To Kill, a 1988 novel written by John Grisham, and a 1996 movie directed by Joel Schumacher. John Grisham stated that To Kill A Mockingbird greatly influenced A Time To Kill. Although some important differences exist, both To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time to Kill explore racism and injustice, the plot and characters

In A Time To Kill written by John Grisham as readers, we have an inside look on racism in the primarily white fictional town of Ford County. The book is about two white men, Pete Willard and Billy Ray Cobb who brutally rape a 10 year old black girl named Tonya Hailey. We are soon introduced to a middle class lawyer, Jake Brigance and the victim's father, Carl Lee Hailey. When the two men are sent to court, Carl Lee Hailey takes justice into his own hands and is soon tried for the murder of the two rapists. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, we meet Jem and Scout, two siblings from Maycomb, Alabama. Their father, (Atticus Finch) is popular among the town as a lawyer and state legislative representative. The novel follows young Scout and

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.