To Kill A Mockingbird: Racism Through The Eyes of a Child

“To Kill A Mockingbird” is a must watched movie at this time when there are so many protests against racism along our country. I watched this movie when I was in high school after we finished the book. All the characters in this movie had shown us the society in the past of how the white treated black people and the justice that they deserved to have was just a fantasy, a mirage.

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Throughout the movie, we focused mostly on Atticus Finch, a lawyer who defended a black man being prosecuted for sexually harassing a white woman, and the view of his childrens on the case. If the character of Atticus, Scout, Jem or Tom Robbinson gave us all the attention and motionals, Boo Radley would give us curiosity and fear during the movie and sympathy at the end of the movie. There were so many rumors around Boo to scare the kids and people around.

This movie took place in the segregation era where black people were being treated unequally but there were some parts of society being treated terribly too. Boo was an example. Boo represented goodness while being misunderstood. His father did bad things to him and he was hurted from the emotion to the body. Boo was a good guy who wanted to be normal like other kids. People were wrong and being proved at the end of the movie where he saved the kids. It reminded me of a saying that don’t judge a book by its cover. We don’t know who they are, how they look like and don’t put the prejudice on them so quickly like that. We can see that not only black people are treated unequally but also some parts of this society who people believe are not normal, not human and evil mistreated the good and innocent. Boo, also represented for black people at that time who wanted to be friendly to others, proved to others that they deserved to be treated equally. But unfortunately, it was only a dream and a hope which never came true.

In this movie, we could not know whether he won the case or not because Tom Robbinson was killed which people said he was trying to escape. That mob was on the scene above. That was the rising action part of the movie. Atticus knew that Tom Robbinson was not safe when he was in jail, the mob would come and lynch him at any time. Atticus was a lawyer and he knew one thing for sure that whether someone did it or not did it, they must have a fair trial to bring out the criminal charge and the justice must be done. Atticus understood that the mob was afraid of Tom Robbinson would walk free so why didn’t they kill him before he had that chance. The mob confronted Atticus and he was ready to fight them back. He had a gun and he was the best shooter in town. He would stand up for justice, for equal and no one was above the law. But one thing that I knew for sure that if there was a fight, he would not win by himself. The children had come to save him because he was their father and their only family and they won’t let anything happen to him or to the justice that his father was trying to protect. That scene was a metaphor for justice for equality.