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To Kill a Mocking Bird was based on one of America's greatest novels ever written. It shows the struggle for equal right between people of color. The movie also shows the struggle of good verse evil throughout mankind. But one of the best points that it shows is standing up for what you believe in.
The movie begins a little town in the south during the great depression. A man brings nuts in a big sack over to the Finch's' house as payment for the work that Atticus Finch did for the man. The man didn't have any money so he had to pay for his legal work in goods.
Atticus Finch is a lawyer and a father of two. His wife passed away four years before so he has a maid name Calpernia help with the kids. Back then (the 30's) it wasn't common for white people and black people to associate with one another. So many people in the town weren't very keen to Atticus.
Atticus had two kids named Scout and Jim. Scout, age 6, was sort of a tom boy and she often got into fights. Jim, age 10, was sort of an adventurous young boy who always had to look after his sister.
Down the street there supposedly lived a maniac who only came out after dark. He was said to have attacked his father with scissors and they sheriff locked him in the basement till he almost died from the damp. Scout and Jim are constantly curious of him.
Atticus was tasked with defending a black man in a rape and assault case. The father of the girl who assaulted was a very suspicious man who was very openly racist. His name was Robert E. Lee Euwell, the name speaks for itself. He likes to drop the N-bomb a lot.
During the case it becomes plainly clear that the black man couldn't have possibly beat the girl, due to the fact that he had no working muscles in his left hand and whoever did beat the girl, beat her mostly on the right side of her face. Mr. Euwell on the other hand was left handed.
Towards the end of the trial it became instantly clear...
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