Racism in Amistad, To Kill a Mocking Bird, and Telephone Conversation E

The texts To Kill a Mocking Bird by harper Lee, Amistad directed by Steven Spielberg and Teleph mavin Conversation by Wole Soyinka explore the rationalize of racism. These three texts focus on prejudice, discrimination, bias, behaviour and attitude revolving around the have a go at it of discrimination because of the coulour of ones skin and the cultural and social attitudes past on from one generation to another. Lees To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel set in the southern states of the USA in the 1930s, a time that is Post Abolitionist, however a time where the agriculture and social structure is still entrenched with racist attitudes and laws. Lee explores these issues in this setting when Ton Robinson, an Afri open fire American is accused of raping a small white girl in a small town of Maycomb, Alabama. racial attitudes be exposed when a lawyer by the name of genus Atticus Finch is asked to defend to the alleged rapist. Telephone conversation by Wole Soyinka is a poesy which uses dialogue between two people, one in a common band box and the other in a public telephone box and the other in a home in London, England to strengthen racial tensions, attitudes and class values. An intelligent, articulate and well educated black slice seeking rental accommodation responds to a wo humanitys advertizing and is challenged by her about the colour of his skin. The poet explores this racial tension with the use of badinage and perceptive dialogue. Steven Spielberg directs the film Amistad, and chronicles an incredible journey of a group of enslaved Africans who rebellion an attempt of their capture in order to return to their homeland. Their ship is seized and the slaves are brought to the United States to be charged with murder. Spielberg ensures that the responder is confronte... ...rom the love of his life. This is captured through the medicine by changing the music from a sorrowful sound to cheesy powerful music. These techniques used by Spielberg repres ent how the Negroes are just as human as any other person even though they are black in skin colour.Racism can exclusively be a mans fear of anything different, a fear of something he doesnt understand. This fear is embedded or can be embedded in the attitudes reaching from one generation to another. It can be reinforced by ones culture, community and personal experience. These texts have explored all of the above areas and the responder can also appreciate that behaviour is a response to attitudes and the suffering, humiliation and injurious treatment of other human beings can at times be lessened or illuminated by the courage of one man and his or her determination to do what they think is right.