Task: Paper will look at how racism is tackled in films specifically my and to kill a mocking bird and avatar.
To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee is a novel set in the fictitious town of Maycomb Alabama. The novel is set in the great depression, a time in which racism prevalent in the US. The novel's protagonist and narrator Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem and her widowed father Atticus. The first half of the novel focuses on Scout and her brother's mutual friend Dill with whom they act out several stories, in an attempt to alleviate their boredom and break through the monotony in their famously calm and dull town. Eventually the trio becomes fascinated by the somewhat run down and intimidating house on their road. It's inhabitant Nathan Radley is said to have a mentally unstable brother, Arthur Radley, (nicknamed Boo) who has not ventured outside the house for several years. Boo continues to fascinate the three children until Atticus
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It is quite obviously one of the main topics of the book, the message it tries to convey is that black people are people too and deserve to be treated equally. The town of Maycomb demonizes Tom and black people in general much like Muslims are demonized today. To kill a mockingbird shows that people are very easily blinded by prejudice towards others of a different race and how such prejudice is completely integrated in society and has even ingrained itself into the legal system.
Lee puts the moral of her story into action with the main characters, Atticus Finch and his two children. Atticus demonstrates an ability and willingness to cut right through social and cultural prejudices and to judge individuals entirely on their merit. Scout and Jem learn both about the existence of prejudice and also how to overcome it by following his example. The lesson is summed up at the end of the novel when Atticus says:
Most people are (nice), Scout, when you finally see them. (chapter