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Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Both the students and the parents in the film experience major changes in their community. The way racism was perceived changed drastically. For years, there was a segregated prom. The parents of the current students grew up with segregation, so they want their children to experience high school the same way they did. However, the students attend an integrated school. All the students are always together regardless of race. The one lingering act of segregation was the prom. Despite segregation being outlawed and that the rest of America had integrated proms, Charleston high school still had two separate proms. These proms were not sponsored by the school, so, they were allowed to exist. However, once the school started working on an integrated …show more content…

Students could have a friend of another race and not be shamed or disowned for it. This was a serious improvement for the students of Charleston. The parents now had to accept that their children were being mixed with people of other races. Even if they keep their racist views, it would not change the fact that their children were in a community with the race that they hate. So, the parents in Charleston were made to see what the world was really like. A world where all people are equal, regardless of …show more content…

The film focuses on this theme to display how racism still exists in America. Even though it has been over one-hundred years since the end of the civil war, African-Americans are still discriminated against by some people. The filmmaker’s show this by interviewing students in Charleston. Students say that racism is commonplace in their society and that the older generation is the problem. That is another thing that shows me the filmmaker’s attitude towards the subject. Almost all of the blame for the segregated prom and racism in Charleston was put on the adults. They grew up in a society where racism was socially accepted. So, they now put those ideals onto their children and they run the town on those ideals. However, with racism now being considered a bad thing, they hide their racism. The fact that the filmmakers blame the racism on the parents and make it out to be a bad thing shows me their attitude. They do not agree with racism and want to remove it from the town. The message of this film is to treat all people equally because we are all human beings. This message, along with the themes of the film, tell me that the filmmakers do not agree with

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