Adversity is a state of continued difficulty or hardship that a person may experience. Both “A Time To Kill” directed by Joel Schmaucher and “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee present characters that face adversity and have different methods of dealing with the situation they face. Some submit to adversity, like Lucien Wilbanks and Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley. Others respond using societies provided systems, such as the law, like Jake Brigance and Tom Robinson do. Non-violent resistance is used by Deputy Willie Hastings and Atticus Finch as a way of dealing with adversity, while Carl-Lee Hailey and Bob Ewell deal with their adversity by using violence.
Two characters that submit to adversity are Lucien Wilbanks in “A Time To Kill” and Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley in “To Kill A Mocking Bird”. Lucien’s adverse situation is that he is banned from the courtroom when he was a lawyer, and this leaves him without a job. Similarly, Arthur’s situation is that he is imprisoned in his home by his parents, banned from the outside world. The response of submission is …show more content…
Jake’s adverse situation is that Carl-Lee Hailey is going to be put in jail for shooting the men who raped his daughter, and Jake feels that this is morally wrong. He says that when he heard about the situation, “All he could think about were all the monsters out there,”2 and he used the law to defend Carl-Lee for removing two of these “monsters” from the world. In response to this situation, he uses the law to free Carl-Lee that he is falsely accused of raping a white woman. He could have left town or becoming violent toward those accusing him of the crime, but his response was to leave the situation to the legal system provided by society. This response was appropriate because it was civil, but it was unsuccessful, as the law did not work in Tom’s
Two characters that submit to adversity are Lucien Wilbanks in “A Time To Kill” and Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley in “To Kill A Mocking Bird”. Lucien’s adverse situation is that he is banned from the courtroom when he was a lawyer, and this leaves him without a job. Similarly, Arthur’s situation is that he is imprisoned in his home by his parents, banned from the outside world. The response of submission is …show more content…
Jake’s adverse situation is that Carl-Lee Hailey is going to be put in jail for shooting the men who raped his daughter, and Jake feels that this is morally wrong. He says that when he heard about the situation, “All he could think about were all the monsters out there,”2 and he used the law to defend Carl-Lee for removing two of these “monsters” from the world. In response to this situation, he uses the law to free Carl-Lee that he is falsely accused of raping a white woman. He could have left town or becoming violent toward those accusing him of the crime, but his response was to leave the situation to the legal system provided by society. This response was appropriate because it was civil, but it was unsuccessful, as the law did not work in Tom’s