To Kill A Mocking Bird Themes

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The movie I chose to watch for extra credit, is “Kill a Mocking Bird.” I picked this movie because I thought I was really interesting. During the 1930s in the depression, the politics in the south interest in the civil rights movement, the politics also worked on economic problems. The 1930s depression and racial issues in the south organize the historical event this movie. It portrays the unfairness of race and bias against African Americans; besides, doing a statement about civil rights issue that was happening at the same timed. To kill a mockingbird, has many stereotypes. The movie uses a child’s perspective to show the stereotypes. This movie had many themes about racism and sexism. After watching this movie, I discovered the political …show more content…
The movie contains tolerance, it is something we have problem with today. Differences in social status are seen through social, the black community, despite its profusion of admirable qualities, the Ewells, allowed Bob Ewell to make up for his lack of importance by persecuting Tom Robinson. These social divisions that make up so much of the world are revealed in the book to be irrational and destructive. For example, Scout cannot understand why “Aunt Alexandra refuses to let her consort with young Walter Cunningham”. Lee uses the children’s comprehension at the hostile to critique the role of class status and, bias in human interaction. In the movie, women and African American people are not thought of as equals or not accepted in today’s society. For example, there are many unfair cases with African Americans. There are some police officers that want to arrest African Americans for no reason. This is why it is important to live by the quote “all lives matter”. A situation similar to kill a mocking bird is the trial of Oj Simpson. There are similar because they both deal with racism. Simpson was an African American man that was accused of killing his Caucasian …show more content…
1. Every year the town of Monroeville has a play based on the book held at the courthouse.
2. The movie is 25th on the list of the greatest American movies of all time.
3. Atticus Finch was the greatest movie hero in 2003.
4. To Kill a Mockingbird as the best film in the courtroom drama genre in 2008.
5. To Kill a Mocking bird marks the film debuts of Robert Duvall, William Windom and Alice Ghostley.
6. The film premiered at Radio City in New York

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