Go Set A Watchman Vs To Kill A Mockingbird

After it was published, the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, was in instant success. The book showed what is was like between whites and blacks back in a time before equality and the truth about how wrongly people of color were treated. “When it’s a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life” (Lee, 295). Lee did an excellent job getting that point across. Although the film To Kill A Mockingbird is based on the novel, there are still many differences. The film producers made some changes to the order of events and how some things happened.They wanted to make the story flow more easily. So, they switched it up. The movie producers also chose to leave out some characters that didn’t have much

The classic To Kill a Mockingbird has many differences from its movie. These changes touch on many themes of the book such as prejudice. Even though the book is fairly different from the movie, the movie can still impact the watcher greatly today. The movie might be missing some parts, but the main idea is still

To Kill a Mockingbird is as relevant today as it was in 1930; significant changes have occured since then, but we still have a ways to go. In the novel people people judged others depending on their social class. In the novel people looked at Mr.Dolphus who was upper class

Harper Lee and Lorraine Hansberry are two very different authors, who wrote two very different works. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about how prejudice and discrimination can lead to an innocent man being convicted of a crime he didn’t commit just because of his skin color. A Raisin in the Sun is a play about how the value of a family can overcome racism in a new town and allow a family to prosper, even in the worst conditions. However, both of these works deal with racism and discrimination in similar ways. Conversely, Harper Lee, being a white author, cannot portray believable accounts of racism and black oppression as well as Lorraine Hansberry, who has personal experience and realism to make her work authentic.

Their are many similarities and differences between the novel and the movie of To Kill a Mockingbird.

The Problem With Harper Lee’s Novel: To Kill a Mockingbird Almost 4,000 people were lynched, many of those being black people throughout the south (“Race Relations”). Most of those lynchings take place around the 1920s to the 1930s but they stagnate in the 1950s to the 1960s. A lot of the violence was happening against black people in the 1930s. Throughout the course of To Kill a Mockingbird, almost none of that violence happens. In terms of violence, it was like the 1950s.

The 1960’s was the height of racial issues during the 20th century. Even under these circumstances, Harper Lee, a white, female author, wrote her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Not only does To Kill a Mockingbird go against society’s opinions at that time, but it addresses themes that apply to everyday life. One main theme is ‘People tend to take risks for the people they care for’. To Kill a Mockingbird is about a girl named Scout and the problems her family faces. Her dad, Atticus, is lawyer who is currently defending a black man in court. Tom Robinson, the black man, was accused of raping a white girl. The story illustrates how society treats people who are different from them and how those people stick together. One example that supports

Racism, classism, and ageism have been around since humans realized there are people of different skin color; Since wealth had begun to carve your importance; Since age held back your physical capabilities. To Kill a Mockingbird was based on the Scottsboro Boys Case and even the childhood of the author Harper Lee. The unfairness and racism of the trial influenced Lee to write a book based upon the Scottsboro Boys. To Kill a Mockingbird was considered “a simple love story” by the author Harper Lee herself, but contains real world problems such as racism, classism, ageism, stereotyping and many others.

In to Kill a Mockingbird shows many examples of Racial and Social inequality. Throughout history Racial and Social inequalities have not improved for the minorities in the United States, There's a new trend going around #Blacklivesmatter. It all started when cops started to shoot unarmed African Americans. It takes just one person to standed up and do the right thing, just like Atticus Finch stood up for Tom Robinson and took his trial case even though he knew he was going to lose.

In "To Kill a Mockingbird" there are a fair amount of white people who support African Americans and believe they are being treated unfairly. In "Go set a Watchman" there are almost none, Scout being the main protagonist and the only non racist characters. In "To Kill a Mockingbird" Atticus is known as a kind hearted man who wants to help all no matter what their race. " Go set a Watchman" flips Atticus on his head making him not only racist but also a card holder for the Klu Klux Klan. He claims it's only to keep an eye out on the other town folk and being able to socialize.

To Kill a Mockingbird might have been written to serve as Harper Lee’s commentary on racism and segregation, but it also touches on many other important themes. One of the biggest of these Secondary themes is the effect of Socio-economic class on a person. To Kill a Mockingbird demonstrates how economic class affects not one’s values, morals, or behavior, but their social standing in a community, People’s prejudices against them, and the expectations and standards they are held to.

Based on the publisher’s note, Go Set a Watchman was actually Harper Lee’s first novel, written before her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. However, it was never published until years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Thus, Go Set a Watchman is considered to have morphed into To Kill a Mockingbird because the content of each novel gradually fit into each other as if they were a sequel (despite the fact that it is actually not considered as a sequel). Harper Lee has written her first novel about Jean Louise’s childhood and her interactions with the world at a young age and her second novel when Jean Louise is a grown woman who is entitled to her own opinion about the world she lives in. More so, in order to create a chronological flow and appropriate transition from and into the two novels, Lee had to

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the setting of the book plays a very major role. The story takes place in the 1930’s, where the Civil War is just in the rear view mirror, and the African-American Civil Rights movement is closely approaching. During this time period, racism was still very vivid even though the slaves had been set free, they had not received equal rights to those of white people. In the book, racism is expressed in the trial of Mr. Tom Robinson who is a colored man trying to prove his innocence of raping a white girl.

Harper Lee penned a book showing that people in the south could be rational, but originally in Go Set a Watchman Atticus Finch is a Ku Klux Klan supporting racist.

The film, To Kill A Mockingbird is faithful to the spirit of the book in many ways, but also ignores many essential themes. To Kill A Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is a film version of Harper Lees original novel. Changing a novel into a film limits the directors to change or reduce the focus on many themes, which was the case with “To Kill A Mockingbird”. Various themes were excluded in order to maintain a reasonable time to tell the story; these absent themes include gender and education. Despite these changes, aspects from the novel remained the same. Both the novel and film addressed the issues of racism and prejudice. Hence, ending the same way