Prejudice and Discrimination - Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Philadelphia" and Bob Dylan's "Hurricane"
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Prejudice is a preconceived bias without evidence. Discrimination is acting upon this prejudice. The three texts studied were: "To Kill a Mockingbird", written by Harper Lee, "Philadelphia", directed by Jonathon Demme and "Hurricane", sung by Bob Dylan. Although all of these texts have different mediums of production - text, film and song - they all convey the concept of prejudice and discrimination through narrative, cinematic and poetic techniques, respectively.
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…they both involve a black man wrongfully accused. In all three of these texts, although 'evil' didn't technically prevail, neither did justice entirely win. In "To Kill a Mockingbird", Tom Robinson was killed, as with Andrew Beckett in "Philadelphia'. Correspondingly, Rubin Carter was never released. All these texts reveal to us, that discrimination is real. Its not something that just takes place on the television. It continues to this very day. Discrimination can be overcome.
…they both involve a black man wrongfully accused. In all three of these texts, although 'evil' didn't technically prevail, neither did justice entirely win. In "To Kill a Mockingbird", Tom Robinson was killed, as with Andrew Beckett in "Philadelphia'. Correspondingly, Rubin Carter was never released. All these texts reveal to us, that discrimination is real. Its not something that just takes place on the television. It continues to this very day. Discrimination can be overcome.
