Similarities Between To Kill A Mockingbird And Pleasantville

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“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old” -Franz Kafka. In both the Novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, and the film “Pleasantville”, the youth was much more accepting of change. The children in both the novel and the film are very open-minded and do not understand the dark side of the world they live in. Although this is a wonderful thing, the sad truth is that they too will grow up, and their state of mind will change with them.

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