To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee: Film Analysis

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is best known as a literary classic, telling the tale of a young girl named Jean Louise “Scout” Finch’s childhood in a southern Alabama town during the great depression. While the fate of a black male convicted of rape still looms in the synopsis. To Kill a Mockingbird the title of the novel, refers to a quote on page 119. Both said by Atticus Finch the town of Maycomb's lawyer and Miss Maudie his neighbor, “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”. As said by Miss Maudie “ Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119). The title of this novel isn’t only referencing this quote,

For my paper I have chosen to analyze the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird.” This movie is based on the novel – by the same name – written by Harper Lee. The story has two major plotlines. One follows Jem, Scout, and Dill as they try to uncover the secretes behind the infamous “Boo” Radley. It’s only at the end of the movie that we learn “Boo’s” real name to be Arthur, and that we discover he actually tries to protect people, as he saved Jem and Scout’s lives. The other major plotline, and the one more relevant to this class, follows Atticus Finch, Jem and Scout’s father, as he tries to represent Tom Robinson. Mr. Robinson is an African American man who has been charged with raping Mayella Ewell. The movie then follows both the trial and the

The case of Tom Robinson was a case on whether he would be guilty for rape or not. Tom Robinson had the defendant, Atticus, with their opponents, the Ewells. Throughout the case you are able to see many different cases where Atticus made it obvious that Tom did nothing wrong and it would have been obvious that Bob Ewell would have been a likely suspect to commit the crime of rape against her daughter, Mayella. The trial showed that the justice system has flaws and doesn’t represent justice, people only make choices based on their racist views.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic book by Harper Lee published in 1960. The book is about a child growing up in a racist community in Alabama and the challenges she faces. The story has received much popularity, and has since then been made into a movie. Although the book and the movie follow the same general plot, there are many differences in them affecting the development of the main character, Scout.

Tom is termed in the novel as a suspect for raping a white woman. The reader can infer in the time the novel was set in, African Americans had equal rights but were not treated fairly in and out of court. Thus change is made when Atticus Finch agrees with Tom’s statement and wants social change in how African Americans are treated in Maycomb. Many citizens in the town agree the defendant, Tom, was guilty, but others believe Tom is innocent. The people struggle to accommodate to the change of white people agreeing with African Americans and some even deal with the change through violence. Another example of change with Tom Robinson is when he is murdered compared to when Bob Ewell is killed. When Tom is murdered many citizens believed it was because he tried to escape prison. The reader can infer the plot of how he was killed was not the truth because Bob Ewell was killed after attacking Scout and Jem. With Bob being a white man, the reader can assume he was given a proper funeral, and he was paid respects for by citizens in Maycomb. The comparison of Tom to Bob’s death exemplify the diversity and change in how the citizens behaved when a drastic loss happened. The change in attitude towards the deaths show how change can result in cruelty to humans, dead or

Scout said,"A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted, and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson. I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: “Guilty . . . guilty . . . guilty . . . guilty . . .”(Lee 282). The poem is also about justice and there wasn't any during the trial. The poem says that justice should be blind but it isn't. The jury looked at Tom Robinson differently because he was black.The only reason why Tom Robinson was guilty was because of his race. All of the evidence was against Bob Ewell but he was not guilty because he was white. The verdict doesn't represent the ideas of the Constitution. The jury was breaking the 14th amendment which states that people were/are guaranteed “equal protection” under the law. In To Kill a Mockingbird, black people weren't given the same rights as whites people were. Equal protection is all under the Bill of Rights so any person has the right to freedom of speech or religion,

I personally like the movie more than the book..I mean yes I know you said to not do that but I just don’t know how to start it anymore so hahaha. Anyways the book was barely alike to the movie. The book and the movie start off on the same setting..Though they don’t have same character names they both start off kind of alike. The book and the movie don’t know why the birds attack. When Nat walks to his house he sees that the birds are settling around it. In the movie they settle in the chimney waiting for them. The radio informs them both every five minutes.

As a young woman in Alabama sat down to tell this tale of a sleepy Southern town based off her own home, little did she know that it would become a powerful and timeless novel, becoming renowned as a piece of classic literature. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird tells a story of a childhood in the deep South. Written in first person account, the story is told through the young eyes of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. It tells of the childly endeavors to lure the fascinating Boo Radley out of his solitary isolation to the trial of an African-American man named Tom Robinson, facing a court filled with prejudicial white men under the accusation that he raped a white woman.As the novel progresses, Scout learns of the inhumanity in her hometown. She gradually begins to know of the cruelty and prejudice faced by Boo, Tom, Atticus and many others.. Atticus tries to help Scout understand these complex concepts and continually works to helps her stay grounded throughout the crisis. He tells Scout of mockingbirds. A mockingbird is a grey and white, medium-sized bird that is most commonly known for it’s ability to mimic sounds and sing them almost endlessly. Atticus says that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird because they are innocent creatures. He does not literally mean a mockingbird when saying this, rather its meaning is metaphorical and open to interpretation. Throughout the novel, many characters could been seen as a “mockingbird” but it seems that the symbol of the mockingbird

An individual’s beliefs are often a reflection of the expectations placed on them by society, family, friends and themselves. The type of pressure experienced differs according to social status as well as level of education. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee that follows the life of a young girl named Scout Finch and her experiences as she grows up in the small, Southern town of Maycomb. Through Scout and her family; ideas of injustice, prejudice, courage and character are expanded upon as she explores both her external environment as well as her inner self. As she learns about the world around her and develops opinions on its workings, she often finds herself being challenged by her community and their expectation of what her morals and values should be. More often than not, it is these social standards standing juxtaposed to the morals of the Finch family that help develop a deeper understanding of the ignorance that has shaped Maycomb and its citizens. With this ignorance came underdeveloped models of what each gender, age, race and caste should look like, and these models became the standard of normality for the town. Maycomb’s tendency to follow tradition without question only helped to solidify outdated expectations on collectives. As a direct result, the standards held by the community were considered to be correct, and those who thought otherwise were often pressured into altering their beliefs.

The book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee was set in 1933, in a tired old town called Maycomb, Alabama. The story is centered around Tom Robinson's case, a man who was accused of raping and beating a girl named Mayella Ewell. The most important thing about this case is that Tom Robinson is black and back in 1933 people harshly discriminated against colored people. Atticus Finch is the lawyer defending Tom Robinson he was presented his case and choose not to refuse it even through the chances of winning were slim. This is because people back then always took a white mans word over a colored mans word because well they thought that colored people were uncivilized and uncouth. Atticus also decided to take the case because unlike most of the people in Maycomb he is not racist. He felt if he didn't he would lose his sense of justice and self-respect. Tom Robinson pleaded not guilty in the case which made it harder for Atticus but despite the difficulties Atticus really made a good case and brought a lot of good points to light like; Mayella’s father Bob Ewell was a drunk, Bob was also ambidextrous and Tom only had one good arm leading to Bob most likely beating her, and why she never went to the doctor after such an event. Despite all the evidence pointing Mayella’s father Tom still got convicted. This was most likely because the jury was racist and back in those days it could not matter how much evidence you had. If, a white person was against a colored person on trial the white person would always win. In the end Atticus did everything he could to prove Tom was innocent. Despite him losing he was still able to walk out of the courtroom with his head held high and was able to say he tried.

The Pulitzer Prize, award-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, contains brimming events that have been forgotten in Robert Mulligans film. Could these repressed scenes in the movie transition people’s aspects of the plot? This story took place in the mid 1930’s in Macomb, Alabama. Jem, Scout, and their father, Atticus, all deal with upcoming tasks throughout the book. Atticus gets put on a case of a black man, A big roll in this was how people were prejudice and treated blacks differently. This book is interesting to read because it is told as a flash back from Scout, who experienced the events in her time. Harper Lee wrote the book, To Kill a Mockingbird and Robert Mulligan directed the movie for this novel. The topics that will be compared

The lesson of this book and the key to life go hand and hand. No matter what people will say, you have to be kind to people, and you shouldn’t be quick to judge someone, especially over material things, and most importantly the color of their skin. This book shows this theme over and over again within itself. Here are just a few examples.

The movie version of To Kill a Mockingbird is very similar to the novel. Some of the strengths of the film is being able to actually see what the characters look like. Also you can understand things more clearly and see what relationship the characters have with one another. Another good thing about the film is they introduce new characters such as Tom Robinson’s family to help the development of the story. However turning a story written in first person into a movie is a very difficult task. The directors did a very good job completing this, but you don’t get the same connection with Scout as you do in the novel. Another drawback to the film is that you are limited to the amount of time the movie can last. So therefore many of the of the

Personal Response- I really enjoyed this book because it made me laugh. The book went through the worst of everything. Stan Lee the author of this book talked about blunders, screw- ups, oddballs, misfits and rotten ideas. It was just hilarious.

The court scene in the film is one of the most important parts of the whole movie because what happens there really shows what life would 've been like in North America in the 1930’s. Tom Robinson is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Mayella Ewell is the daughter of Bob Ewell who is known for his obsession for drinking. Tom Robinson is found guilty of rape of Mayella Ewell. It turns out that Tom wasn’t guilty, it was Bob Ewell who raped Mayella but the blame was put on Tom because of his race. Atticus was Tom Robinson 's lawyer and had to persuade the jury that Tom was not guilty of this crime. The jury decided that Tom was in fact guilty of rape. The jury consisted of only white men who were racist. If To Kill a Mockingbird were in the 21st century there would be a lot more laws and everyone would be treated the same. In 2016 there wouldn’t be any prejudice with different people. In today’s