Literature Through Film Post #3: Responding to "To Kill a Mockingbird"

       In this mysteriously interesting movie, we go over the experiences of Scout, a curious and lovely young girl who pretty much is the definition of innocence, is faced with challenging life experiences that prove to be contributors to her growth. She naturally challenges the standards set by her archaic society and questions the silly logistics that have overtaken the minds of the people in the past. Everyone seems to be just mindlessly following racist and sexist standards without ever stopping to think about them, but Scout is always questioning why the world around her is rotting and the people around her are so negligent. Scout questions, why does she need to wear a dress to school just because she is a girl. She clearly isn't allowed to do what makes her comfortable which in return makes the world around her a more hostile place for her. She witnesses the hatred of white people towards black people, and see how unfair and unbalanced the justice systems were are the time. On the way, she also saw how manipulative and destructive people can be when Mr. Ewell abused his daughter and still managed to convince her to say that a black person did it in court. All throughout what I managed to see of the movie, I was afraid that Atticus would be killed by the people who accused Tom Robinson of a serious felony because of the scene where Mr. Ewell snuck up to his car and seemed threatening to Atticus' kids. He also called Atticus a "nigger lover" which is what the people in Selma called the white people who helped the black people in the civil rights movement before they killed them.