To Kill A Mockingbird

 

       Based on Harper Lee's novel, To Kill A Mockingbird is most likely to be one of the best films based on a book. A story with both a child's and a grownup's point of view. A very realistic fiction. Let's look at why it's loved by all who have read it.

       Once upon a time, it's 1932 in a southern town called Maycomb. Our story is centered around Scout, Jem, and their father, Atticus Finch, a lawyer. It seems Jem and Scout's life is quite normal. But when Atticus is chosen to defend Tom Robinson, it's something they'll bound to remember it for the rest of their lives.

         When you think about it, you realize that both the book and the movie were made when Civil rights were being fought for. There's no words almost, just that the film can demonstrate what black people have had to put up with for the past century or so. The intolerable racism. Anybody should be able to see the unfairness in Tom Robinson's trial. You can see the hurt Tom feels when Mayella and Bob Ewel speak of the bad things Tom did when he knows he didn't do any of it. How could the jury declare Tom guilty after Atticus' 7-minute speech?

           
          That was mostly the adults' part of the story. Regrettably, most children today can't relate to Jem and Scout very well. What with all the technologies nowadays kids don't seem to play outside or have adventures the way Jem and Scout did. After what happened to Tom Robinson, the children may have needed something good again, and it turned out to be something they had known to be mysterious and perhaps dangerous. Boo Radley. 

         
            Atticus said, "You never really know a person till you consider things from their point of view." That is something to live by. Our world is so full of judgement and dislike towards one another. People never really think about that. Hows does a Negro feel? How does someone with a mental illness feel? Is the label they have on them truly correct? The story of To Kill A Mockingbird reminds us of that, thanks to Atticus Finch and Harper Lee.

           
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