Inhumanity In Jewison's In The Heat Of The Night

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In the Heat of Humanity
In Jewison’s The Heat of The Night released in 1967, the abuse suggests inhumanity towards Mr.Tibbs while he tries to find justice in the killing of the town’s newest entrepreneur. The newest suspect is Mr.Tibbs a successful police officer. He specializes in homicides in Pennsylvania. He is misjudged at a train station because of the racial cruelty in the south. Once Mr.Tibbs name is cleared he is assigned to the case by his commanding officer back home. He has to put up with the racial slurs,beatings and a terrible work environment while trying to find the real killer.
When Mr.Tibbs was leaving town after a visit to his mother he was arrested for no reason besides his color. In this scene officer Sam Wood arrested
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They decided to mess with him by smashing into the back of his car and chasing him off the road . They finally surrounded him into a warehouse . The drunken white mob grabbed weapons from the warehouse and circled around Mr.Tibbs. They were going to kill him as Mr.Tibbs grabbed a piece of wood to protect himself. As they narrowed in the chief police officer came in and was acting like he was on the drunk boys side. He then started fighting the men off and told them to get out of there. As the chief of police gains knowledge on Mr.Tibbs he starts to understand who he is as a person by giving him some respect. He stood up for Mr.Tibbs when it was important and Mr.Tibbs was grateful for that.
In Jewison’s The Heat of The Night the abuse suggests inhumanity towards Mr.Tibbs while he tries to find justice.As the story goes on people of the town get to know Mr.Tibbs and start to acknowledge him as a person more than pre-judging him for his skin tone .
“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance” – Socrates . This quote shows how knowledge is the key and by not pre-judging someone you can learn what is beyond their skin color. When you are ignorant about issues like racism and how you treat racism in your own town are

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