To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
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To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) is set in a small Southern town in the 1930s. An idealistic white lawyer (Gregory Peck) defends a black man (Brock Peters) who is falsely accused of raping an ignorant white woman. Although the lawyer proves his client is not guilty, the all-white jury finds him guilty just because he is a black man, and they refuse to take the word of a black over that of a white. Prejudice wins out over justice. That is one of the movie's themes, but another is the importance of standing up for your beliefs, as the Peck character does. A subplot centers on the lawyer's two young children, and their prejudice of a mysterious neighbor. There are many emotions in the movie and most of them are due to prejudice, mostly racial. Just about all the town's white population feel hatred toward black people, and this emotion does not change and is responsible for the unjust verdict. Many black characters fear the whites, and with good reason; they could be falsely accused, jailed and killed because of white racism. Fear is also the emotion felt by the two young children who believe there neighbo
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Approximate Word count = 744
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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