To Kill a Mockingbird: Respect Every Life

Sandrine 2022-06-10 10:13:46

After reading the novel in the afternoon, I hurriedly found the movie and made up for it in the evening. It is indeed a good film worth reading again and again. Black and white pictures can not resist its charm. The film restores most of the descriptions in the novel. It can make me clear and specific to many vague plots in the book, such as the tree hole in Ah Se, the pocket watch, knife, small statue, etc. in the tree hole, and it can also describe some doubtful but passing places in the book. Coming out makes me understand more. In short, I think the film and the novel are very good. Some details of the film can be filled with visual sound, and some plots can also be recalled from the book, which complements each other. When I was studying, I always thought that only Ah Se, the strange neighbor, was a robin.

Unexpectedly, after watching the movie, I realized another level. It turns out that Tom, Ah Se, and Atticus are all robins. All three people symbolize the robin, but the author uses the method of long and short shots in the writing technique and the director in the shooting technique. When I see the little ones, I think they are far away, and there are not many portrayals, yes, but he not only quietly sent gifts to the little heroines but also saved the lives of their brothers and sisters; like a voice-over, in other people's stories, he has nothing to do with himself. The one who was in direct contact with him was Tom, the one who was wronged by people's prejudice and forced to death is the clue of a theme in the text; the Atticus, who gets along with himself day and night, adheres to fairness and justice in words and deeds, is a good father and professional ethics. A noble lawyer uses his conscience and knowledge as a guardian of the soul, trying his best to protect the important things in this world that have been trampled and abandoned by people; the little heroine is wise and brave under the protection of her father and brother.

Indeed a good film.

Teacher Luo Xiang said that bravery is the most advanced word. I think it can describe Atticus and Ash and Little Girl and Tom.

Of course, the background of this story, racial discrimination, and the Great Depression, can not be divorced from these major era marks.

Perhaps the more you know about these backgrounds, the better you can appreciate the cuteness and preciousness of these robins.

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To Kill a Mockingbird quotes

  • 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.

  • [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.