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A Time To Kill Comparison

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In the book ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ by harper lee, and the film ‘A Time To Kill’ both explore the ideas of racism. Both set in the south in different time periods when racisms were used throughout everyday lifestyles. White never saw blacks in the same way and would always get the ‘second hand’. Throughout both the book ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and the film ‘a time to kill’ both compare similarities within the Ku Klux Clan and the Treatment/perspectives on black people, whilst the court cases against the black man in the wrong have different outcomes.
In both ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘a time to kill’ the greatest army against blacks ‘Ku Klux Klan’ both appear to destroy or hurt any blacks or anyone helping and supporting the blacks. For …show more content…

Jake is out to see if a fair trial can be held in the south, were racism is large. Camera angle is a technique used to clearly label and display the good from the bad, and the one sided affair. Carly is found not guilty due to insanity therefore winning the trial. The book and film differ in the outcome of the trial.
Another similarity of both ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘A Time To Kill’ share is the treatment/perspectives on black people. In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Jem says
‘how could they do it, how could they’, Atticus response ‘I don’t know, but they’ve done it before, and did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it’ and it seems only children weep. This is displayed as children don’t understand and it believe it’s wrong. (chapter 22). This is due to the treatment, slavery and utter disrespect black people are show in general public. This is similar in ‘a time to kill’ as shown in the starting scene of Tanya Halie just walking down the side of the road, when two grown men uttering bash, rape, and leave her for dead. As Jake Brigance tells in the closing statement of

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