To Kill A Mockingbird Comparison

To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time to Kill may be set sixty years apart, but they both explore similar themes, such as the predominant racism in the deep south. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the small fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. The story is told by Jean-Louise “Scout” Finch as a young girl looking back on her childhood, and the court case that shook the cultural basis of the town. A Time to Kill is set in the late 1990’s in the fictional town of Clanton, Mississippi, where the town’s values and views on racial inequality have hardly changed over the years. Both A Time to Kill and To Kill a Mockingbird have similar meanings and conflicts, despite being based sixty years apart.

A Time to Kill and To Kill a Mockingbird

both deal with the predominant racism and prejudice against people of colour, specifically African-Americans, in the south of the United States of America. In both works, there is an African-American man on trial in a town or state that has prejudiced views towards people of colour, and the lawyer hired to defend the black man struggles to let the man be seen as equal to a white man in the eyes of the law, “And until we see each other as equals, justice is never going to be even-handed. It will remain nothing more than a reflection of our own prejudices.” (John Grisham, A Time to Kill).