Racism is the prejudice against people regarding the country they came from, the colour of their skin, and the language they speak. Racism is a theme that is seen all over the world and also plays a big part in our modern history. In the novel to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and the film ‘Remember The Titans’, the racism prevalently between black and white Americans is dealt with in a numerous amount of ways. The novel is not a true story but is based on life at the time whereas the film is based on real events that happened. Throughout both the film and the novel there were many similarities with how racism was dealt with including the two female narrators and the two protagonists that did not believe in prejudice against race.
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Sheryl Yoast opens the film ‘Remember The Titans’ by discussing the importance of high school football and throughout the film displays her love of football. This is unexpected as Sheryl is a young white girl and at that time it was unexpected of women to be so into something that was considered a ‘man’s sport’. Scout, or Jean-Louise Finch, is the narrator throughout the whole novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and speaks mostly of her father, Atticus Finch, throughout the novel as well as her struggle of being a girl who did not embrace much femininity. Sheryl at first displays mild racism but her character develops over the film showing that her love for football is more important than skin colour. She also does not hold anything against coach Boone even though he replaced and her father and even tells him he did “…A good job up here. You ran a tough camp from what I can see.” Scout is not as aware of the realities of racism in Maycomb due to her naivety. Although she …show more content…
In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, set in the 1930s, racial slurs are still prevalent even though slavery had ended nearly a century ago. Terms like the word nigger were used consistently throughout the book and was not seen as racist by the uneducated as it became a social norm. Scout was no exception to this and loosely used the term until her father Atticus addressed it by telling her, “That’s common.” Primarily Calpurnia in the novel uses it as she labelled her informal register as ‘nigger talk’ and the church she goes to as a ‘nigger church’. The word itself is deemed offensive at was slang for African slaves in the past. The derogatory term is used a total of 48 times throughout the book and is seen nowhere in the film, set in the 1970s, due to censorship of offensive language. Although racism still exists in the film, there were only 3 instances where a derogatory term was used and each of those situations were directed towards coach Boone when the white people nicknamed him ‘coach
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Sheryl Yoast opens the film ‘Remember The Titans’ by discussing the importance of high school football and throughout the film displays her love of football. This is unexpected as Sheryl is a young white girl and at that time it was unexpected of women to be so into something that was considered a ‘man’s sport’. Scout, or Jean-Louise Finch, is the narrator throughout the whole novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and speaks mostly of her father, Atticus Finch, throughout the novel as well as her struggle of being a girl who did not embrace much femininity. Sheryl at first displays mild racism but her character develops over the film showing that her love for football is more important than skin colour. She also does not hold anything against coach Boone even though he replaced and her father and even tells him he did “…A good job up here. You ran a tough camp from what I can see.” Scout is not as aware of the realities of racism in Maycomb due to her naivety. Although she …show more content…
In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, set in the 1930s, racial slurs are still prevalent even though slavery had ended nearly a century ago. Terms like the word nigger were used consistently throughout the book and was not seen as racist by the uneducated as it became a social norm. Scout was no exception to this and loosely used the term until her father Atticus addressed it by telling her, “That’s common.” Primarily Calpurnia in the novel uses it as she labelled her informal register as ‘nigger talk’ and the church she goes to as a ‘nigger church’. The word itself is deemed offensive at was slang for African slaves in the past. The derogatory term is used a total of 48 times throughout the book and is seen nowhere in the film, set in the 1970s, due to censorship of offensive language. Although racism still exists in the film, there were only 3 instances where a derogatory term was used and each of those situations were directed towards coach Boone when the white people nicknamed him ‘coach