Similarities Between To Kill A Mockingbird Book And Movie

To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee is a 1960 book told through the eyes of a young girl ( Scout Finch ). The book tells a story about a black man being falsy accused of a crime and Scouts father who is a lawyer ( Attticus finch) trying to protect him of being falsy accused. The book also goes into detail about a mysaterious man by the name of Boo Radley. The book explores the ideas of racism, Honesty, childhood, anger and equal rights.

A Time To Kill directed by Joel Schumacher is a 1996 film that is based off the book a To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper lee. The ideals are the same but the story line is differn to the book. The film shows lawyer ( Jake Brigance ) trying to protect African - American Carl Lee Hailey from being accused

for the killing the two men who raped his young 10 year old daughter Tanya.

Compare the ways in which the authors of both texts explore the idea of racism

- The idea of racism is explored throught both texts in varous differnmt ways. Both of the texts rely heavily of the idea of racism to give meaning and plot in there story. Harper Lee explores the idea of racism in her book To Kill a Mockingbird through symbolism, Langauge anjd envirmomet. Joel Schumachers A time to kill also explores the ideas of racism through symbolism, langiuge and envirmonet just as Harper Lee. Both texts use the power of symbolism to express racism, in A time to kill Josh Schumacher uses symbols like the conbfederate flag, burning crosses and the ku klux klan to express the idea of racism throught his film however in To kill a mockingbird the symbolism ios much different. Harper Lee inteeligently ues symbols of a snowman and Bluejays to express racism. In chapter 8 Jem and Scout build a snowman that is later on burned due to a fire, as the fire melted away the snowman leaving only mud. Harper Lee meant this as “the fire

represents the racist people of Maycomb, saying that whites and blacks are not the same”. The bluejays are also a symbol of racism, when atticus said “you can shoot at bluejays all you want, but remember, it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" it was a refrence to when he later on said “that if a white man cheats a black man, the white man is trash” the bluejays represent black people as a balck person dead is nothing and the white people being mockinbirds as when you kill a white person it is a crime. Both texts use envirmonet to set the ideas opf racism, bothg texts use a courtroom to express racism with both courts bewing unfair with all white jurys and terms like “ Nigger” being used frequently. In a time to kill Carl Lee also made a important statement in the courtroom by saying “How's a black man ever going to get a fair trial with the enemy on the bench and in the jury box? My life in white hands?" . A time to kill also uses the spereation of black and whitesd to express racism, with the blacks living in a bad part of town and on the outscourts and the hwites living in nice suburnbia town.

This was expressed when Carl Lee Hailey said to Jake “We are on different sides of the line, I ain't never seen you in my part of town. I bet you don't even know where I live” and Jake saying “They see you, they see a yardworker; they see me, they see an attorney. I live in town, you live in the hill”. To kill a mockjinbgird also simarly uses this idea of sepration with the majority of the blacks living on the outscourts of Maycomb near the dumps and farms and the whites living in town. Another way that the idea of racism is explored throughout the film is from language. Both texts have a huge amount of racist terms and slurr used thought. Terms like Nigger, Negro and black where frequently used throughout both texts. These racist slurs where used in boith texts to show the racism that was alive at those times. Another way the texts explore racism is through what is said by the charecters in both texts. In a time to kill Carl Lee says to Jake “The fact is you are just like all the rest of them. When you look at me, you don't see a man,

you see a black man." To kill a mocking bird also uses a simalr sentence with atticus saying to scout “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life”. However both texts used a a qoate that meant the same thing but was said differently, this quate was super important as it expressed the idea of racism in thew time line they where in. In a time to kill Carfl Lee says to jake “ You are my secret weapon because you are one of the bad guys. You don't mean to be but you are. It's how you was raised." And in to kill a mockingbird atticus says to scout ““People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for”. Both harper Lee and Joel Schumacher used tghese sentences and lines to portray the idea of racism and that white people may feel like they are not racist but because it lies so deep in our history sometimes we are being racist without even knowing it.

Conclusion
Both texts do brilliantly in expressing the ideas of racism. They both intlelignelty use various symbols, environment, and langueg to highlight the racism in there story. Both texts ecel in there ideas of racism and how they write/act it.