To Kill A Mockingbird Textual Analysis Essay

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While considering objectively for a major theme of the video, one decided to illustrate a crucial and reflective central idea, namely to not form opinion about an individual until one completely understands it situation. While it is most certain that the theme is illuminating, it also remains true that its essence can be truly captured through means of a skit as opposed to videos with picture or songs and dances, hence, consequently our team decided to form a skit. While planning this video/skit we all decided onto the idea that Chase, Colin, and Colin’s brother-James-can portray distinct characters as we illustrate an effective scene from the book. Furthermore, while there can be multiple scenes which successfully capture the nature of this theme, it is most effectively done through the scene wherein Scout and Jem are attacked by Bob Ewell, and are protected by Boo Radley, who holds a false image in the society. Moreover, through successfully portraying Boo Radley’s true nature and juxtaposing it against the fallacious opinion held by the society, the scene promises greatest success to demonstrate our chosen theme. …show more content…
Alongside these facts, the musical elements also presented a entertaining and humorous character to the scene, while the the suspenseful music parallel the the intense yet mysterious tone of the aforementioned scene, as the children are in complete dark regarding their saviour as well as their enemy. Moreover, aside from the songs and musical elements from iMovies, Bo Diddley’s “Don’t judge a book by the cover”, further demonstrated our theme by restating that it crucial to understand one’s situation before forming opinions regarding him/her, as exhibited through his following

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