Introduction:
Harper Lee’s classic novel is built on two main themes, racial injustice and the disruption of innocence which are skillfully interwoven together to create a complex web of intricacies that continually develop throughout the book. Coming from Alabama, Lee is a fine author who has the pulse of the state’s social injustice in her hands and the film brings out this incredible hatred especially well. The courtroom scene is particularly harrowing where we observe the segregation of the races as well as the rampant histrionics of the so called accused white woman compared to the stoic calmness of Jim ...