Frontline & To Kill a Mockingbird (1 Viewer)

[Ochibi]

I'm planning to use To Kill a Mockingbird for a Frontline related text, but the only links I can think of between the two are that it takes bravery and self-sacrifice to tell the truth and that the powerful manipulate the truth and pick on the 'smaller fish'.

Does anyone have any other ideas that I can use to link the two?

 

[glitterfairy]

Don't be fooled into thinking that the "Telling The Truth" module only looks at how the truth is for the most part, a lie. (case in point: Birthday Letters)

Think on a grander scheme, and how truth can be told in a variety of ways for various reasons. If you can't find similarities, look for differences. Why are they different? What do they achieve in these different ways?

 

[kami]

I'm planning to use To Kill a Mockingbird for a Frontline related text, but the only links I can think of between the two are that it takes bravery and self-sacrifice to tell the truth and that the powerful manipulate the truth and pick on the 'smaller fish'.

Does anyone have any other ideas that I can use to link the two?

In To Kill a Mockingbird, the truth is obscured due to familial pressure placed on the young lady testifying. It is also obscured by a jury who are unwilling to see the truth because they are too entrenched in social prejudice to look at facts - they have been manipulated by the appearance of something.

You can draw various links to Frontline e.g in Smaller Fish to Fry I believe they decide to bury the truth (the big story) due to pressure from above --> to father pressuring girl to perjury or the various biases(both positive and negative) Frontline plays upon to create their version of the truth --> biases obscuring truth in mockingbird.

Another interesting question to ask is whether Scout herself is really seeing the truth as well and if she is, what sets her apart from the other characters? (in both texts)