Comparative Essay

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Ideas in this essay?

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1. Prioritising race and social class

2. Tainted investigation

3. Assumed judgement deprived from race

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Structure in body paragraph?

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-Topic sentence

-Example, explanation, highlight the message

-linking sentence

-Text 2: example, explanation, highlight message

-Strong comparing sentence

-link it to the question

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Key quotes

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"Now don't be so confident Jem, I ain't ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white..."

"the injuries of that in a car accident"

"Do you want more Mr. Doomadgee?" "Get up Mr. Doomadgee!"

"... You're left handed?"

"You're a mighty good fellow, it seems- did this all for not one penny?" "Yes, suh."

"Community with High level of violence and alcohol abuse."

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Introduction?

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The idea of injustice is discovered in the novel, (introduce TKAM, title, author, plot) and these themes interlock with (introduce TTM, title, author, plot) these texts explore the ideas in different approaches but similarly the overall outcome and themes send an alike message, of how race is the main cause behind racism.

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Corresponding to the representation of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' with race as being a cause of injustice the text shows the social classes which have been quite pronounced throughout the novel. An example of this is during the Mayella assault trial, when Jem believed that Tom Robinson would be announced as 'Not Guilty' by the jury but Reverend Skykes halted him and said, "Now don't be so confident Jem, I ain't ever seen a jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man..." This displays regardless of what clear evidence being presented it doesn't deny the fact that Tom Robinson is black, which deems more important than the proof.

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We also see this default action throughout 'The Tall Man' the key accounts of witnesses and the history of Chris Hurley's violence were discarded and either marked unreliable or weren't brought up in court. Such wounds that Cameron Doomadgee recieved, they were compared to, "the injuries of that in a car accident". As for Hurley he claims that he falled, which does not match up to the injuries. Both texts reveal that the evidence put forth are irrelevant when race is included into the situation at hand, suggesting that race is prioritised over the other factors of injustice.

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Body Para 2// TTM

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Providing a further similarity in the film, 'The Tall Man' the crime scene of Cameron Doomadgee's death and evidence were tainted. We see in this documentary of how Chris Hurley changes his accounts of what happened during the arrest of Doomadgee on the 19th of November 2004. Hurley continually alters his record of events once new evidence emerged concerning the death. For instance, Roy Bramwell, an indigenous man who gave his video statement telling the investigators that he remembers Hurley yelling, "Do you want more Mr. Doomadgee?" his demonstration had fit in with the events and Cameron's lawyer, Andrew Boe describes, "... terribly poignant and likely, one would think, to be true". But Hurley modifies his recollection in pulling him from the floor and yelling, "Get up Mr. Doomadgee!". The court used tainted and perplexed accounts of Hurley's and not even considering Bramwell's more accurate story.

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This is parallelled in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' more subtly, as Bob Ewell was on stand concealing the truth, as he was exposed for being left-handed and Mayella was hit on her right side and Tom Robinson was unable to use his left hand. As Atticus asked, "... You're left handed?" and Ewell openly confirmed it. Common in each text, it depicts how tainted the case is and how in both texts the guilty have gotten away with it, as they aren't coloured.

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Racial Judgement throughout both texts are prevalent which is a factor of injustice in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' the stereotypes of the coloured people ignoring the personal history. Tom Robinson was an 'honorable' man, he had feelings of compassion towards Mayella as he helped her without money, "You're a mighty good fellow, it seems- did this all for not one penny?" "Yes, suh." Compared to Bob Ewell who is a terrible person and is known as 'trash'. This exhibits how they disregard the past and choose to focus on their racial background.

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'The Tall Man' also interprets this idea. Hurley had a past anger issue with an indigenous woman, Barbara Pilot which he had spun his vehicle wheel on her foot, this history was ignored by the court. As there were witnesses accounts because they were a Palm Islander and they were from a "Community with High level of violence and alcohol abuse". The racial and community background was acknowledged by the court but not Hurley's anger issues. Shared by each text were how racial background and stereotypes were only acknowledged but in contrast 'To Kill a Mockingbird' showed more racism as they did not consider anything on a personal level, it instantly lead to injustice as for 'The Tall Man' it provides more consideration and hope for justice.

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Conclusion?

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Ultimately underlining both texts they depict that the factor of racism in the equation will dramatically change results, and point out that race irradicates all accurate evidence. In contrast to this each text in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' the only factor seemed to be used is race as for 'The Tall Man' race is the central theme but there were many other factors involved. The powerful representation illustrated here is that race shows its large significance and contribution to injustice.

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Topic sentence for para 1?

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Corresponding to the representation of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' with race as being a cause of injustice the text shows the social classes which have been quite pronounced throughout the novel.

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Topic sentence for para 2?

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Providing a further similarity in the film, 'The Tall Man'

(explain Chris Hurley changing accounts) alters his events when new evidence emerges.

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Message for para 2?

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Common in each text, it depicts how tainted the case is and how both texts the guilty party have gotten away with, as they are whites not because of their explanation which proved poor.

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Topic sentence for para 3?

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Racial Judgement throughout both texts are prevalent this prevents justice being served. In 'To Kill a Mockingbird' the stereotypes of the coloured people blocks out of how the person actually is.

Talk about Barbara Pilot.