The Movie

The scene in the To Kill a Mockingbird movie I am going to talk about is the Tom Robinson trial when Miss Mayella starts just screaming shes not gonna say no more. This scene stands out to me because in the Mayella is just how I imagined her in the book kind of skinny like shes been starved and flaky because she seems so scared like she can never follow through with anything. Mayella also acts like she does in the book.

This scene has similarities and differences to the book. One Similarity is that Mayella says what she does in the book in the same tone so it makes it easy to relate to the book. One difference is that the trial does cut out some things that the book does make really clear about more details about the house and some other things Mayella does like cry more than one time etc. Another similarity is Mayella is so lonely and when she tells her story it's like the one in the book, how she lies and says she asked Tom to bust up a chiffarobe and then she said he came in after he asked for his nickel which wasn't true. A final difference is that the movie is sort of just gets this scene over with and doesn't go into details, but in the book it really gets into detail about the trial which makes it interesting.

Changed My Life

To Kill a Mockingbird, has changed my life in several ways. I have learned one: Not to judge people until you stand in there shoes. Two: Racism is a big factor in peoples lives. To begin with I am going to talk about how Atticus said not to judge people until you stand in their shoes. " You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."(30). I really think this taught me an important lesson to not judge people until you know what it's like to be them.

Now I am going to talk about the racism lesson. This book shows racism in how it was in real life. I think that racism is just that one thing that will never end. That one thing that really can tear someone apart. I have learned from this book the true meaning of racism and how it was played out back then. Especially during the Tom Robinson Trial. That just made me sick on how the jury in the book and in real life could do such things to people just because they're black.

Life Lesson

One life lesson that I think Scout and Jem have learned is to be fair to everybody white, or black. I think with everyone around them like Miss Maudie and Atticus definitely make an impact on this lesson. After Tom Robinson's case I think Scout and especially Jem were shakin up a bit. "I don't know but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it...it seems that only children weep. Goodnight." (213). I think this explains that Jem was just so confused and sad because he was so optimistic that the jury would acquit Tom Robinson, that he was almost depressed that he was guilty. Jem is even still too young that he doesn't realize that it doesn't matter if he was innocent or not which he was but it's a black mans word against a white mans.

I think this is an important life lesson because even today weather people want to admit to it or not racism is still going on. I believe that racism is so cruel to black people because it's not fair for someone to get judged just because of their skin color. All in all, I don't think racism will ever be gone. I believe it's one of those things people won't change because it all starts on how their raised.

Themes

Out of the many themes in the book, the theme I'm going to talk about is
racism. I think racism is an important theme because it is used a lot in the story.
Since this book is also taken place in the south I think racism is a good topic for the
time and place.

Some examples of this is when Mayella calls Tom Robinson a nigger. Mayella refers to
Tom as a "N" word when she says "Come here nigger, and bust up this chiffarobe for
me, I got a nickel for you." This shows that white people still refer to black people as
nigger, and negro which most white people only said back then. Also this book shows
racism by everyone siding with the white folks when Tom Robinson is convicted of rape
even though there is so much evidence to prove that he wasn't guilty. So now you know
that this book is based a lot of racism and you can tell that back then they didn't
care if you had evidence or not if you were black, you were hated.

Atticus As A Father

I think Atticus is actually a good loving father that cares about his kids but doesn't express it as like I love you so much. No he actually is about teaching his kids that he loves them through lessons throughout the book. For example: Atticus has the talk with Uncle Jack about the whole trial of who he is defending and during the conversation Scout is listening and Atticus is saying all this stuff he hopes Scout and Jem will to do stay strong during this. "I just hope Jem and Scout come to me for their answers, instead of listening to the town."
"I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until years later he had wanted me to hear every word." pg.(88,89). I think that shows he can get his kids to listen more closely when they think it's an adult conversation so they're more interested.

I think my parents are different that Atticus and his way of handling things. First off my parents are more direct and if they want me to know something they tell me so I can just know it I guess. But also my parents still find time to talk to me even if they are swamped. Not that Atticus doesn't it's just that he just gets swamped but even if that's the case with my parents they're always trying to give me advice or help me with my problems.