English comparative essay (injustice/justice)

Question 1

intro

injustice/justice

Answer 1

The civil rights movement of the 1960’s imprints a period of challenging the social structures that hold the system together hindering equality for all.

Harper Lee’s appraised Southern Gothic novel To Kill a Mockingbird set in the 1930’s, during the catastrophe of the Great Depression and Rachel Perkins’ 1960’s Australian drama Jasper Jones, set during the Vietnam War and civil right movement both expose…

While injustice is so prevalent in both societies, some hero-like characters are seen to counteract these common notions.

summary of 3 paragraphs

Question 2

Body 1

Answer 2

Both texts expose an overwhelming sense of learnt racially motivated inequality, thwarting the justice system.
“he’s ruining the family name”
“n****-lover”- derogatory words
“as simple as black and white”- simile and irony
“was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth.”
“can’t tell the [police] the truth, [because] this is Corrigan nobody will believe [him]”
“people in town think that he’s dangerous”

Question 3

Body 2

Answer 3

Throughout both texts, characters begin to challenge their towns customs by breaking ingrained racial prejudice that has haunted the town and justice system for years.
“simply because [they were] licked a hundred years before [they] started is no reason for [them] not to try to win.”- allusion + colloquialism
“the police saw what happened…Miss Finley [could] just walk away?”

Question 4

Body 3

Answer 4

Ultimately both Lee and Perkins’ texts portray a sense or lack in faith of adult figures to shape the moral universe of their children
“all men are not created equal…some people have more opportunity because they are born with it”
“you never really understand a person until you consider his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it,”
“Boo Radley was the least of [their] fears.”