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About the legal spirit of the ending
Ewell 2021-10-20 17:25:44
I really like the ending of "Kill a Mockingbird". There are so many films that celebrate professional ethics, so Atticus defended black people and insisted on sending him to court when he mistakenly thought that his son killed the gangster... These plots are touching but not surprising, but in the end, When he knew that the real "murderer" who killed the gangster was Boo, he chose to conceal the truth without hesitation. As a lawyer, his wisdom lies in how to make a trade-off between observing the existing laws and rules and maintaining the good with instinctive morality. A person who disregards the rules will not understand true democracy and freedom, and a person who regards the rules as the bible will fall into the dangerous thinking of unity.
Extended Reading
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Dillon 2022-03-25 09:01:05
I always feel that this story lacks such a breath, whether it is a book or a movie. In the two-line story, on the one hand, the father defended the black people and finally the public opinion defeated the truth. On the other hand, the strange uncle became more and more weird, but in the end it proved that he was a good old man. Good and evil are not so absolute. On the one hand, they doubt the rationality of justice; on the other hand, they praise good deeds. It is beautiful to see the world from a child’s perspective.
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Ryley 2021-10-20 19:02:19
At first glance, I thought it was a platter of anti-racism and horror suspense. Only when you understand what it meant to the United States in 1932, and understand the general environment from the country’s economic collapse to the national mental collapse, can you understand what the original novels and movies are trying to express. Adhering to justice, kindness, courage and love in difficult times is precious.
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Tom Robinson: I can't use my left hand at all. I got it caught in a cotton gin when I was twelve years old. All my muscles were tore loose.
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[testifying]
Tom Robinson: Well, I said I best be goin', I couldn't do nothin' for her, an' she said, oh, yes I could. An' I asked her what, and she said to jus' step on the chair yonder an' git that box down from on top of the chifforobe. So I done like she told me, and I was reachin' when the next thing I know she... grabbed me aroun' the legs.
[a murmur erupts in the courthouse]
Tom Robinson: She scared me so bad I hopped down an' turned the chair over. That was the only thing, only furniture 'sturbed in the room, Mr. Finch, I swear, when I left it... Mr. Finch, I got down off the chair, and I turned around an' she sorta jumped on me. She hugged me aroun' the waist. She reached up an' kissed me on the face. She said she'd never kissed a grown man before an' she might as well kiss me. She says for me to kiss her back.
[Tom shakes his head, re-living the ordeal with his eyes half-closed]
Tom Robinson: And I said, Miss Mayella, let me outta here, an' I tried to run. Mr. Ewell cussed at her from the window and said he's gonna kill her.