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“People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.” Quoted by Andrew Smith. Does this explain what really keeps the distance between people? Has this also clarified what drives an individual towards hatred? Two of my texts: To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, Max directed by Boaz Yakin both evidently portrays the idea of how people are afraid of things they don't understand, which creates the wall of boundary between people. Eventually, both texts share similar endings of the idea of how trust can overcome the complications. Peppermints written by Vanessa Rhodes and Perfect composed and sang by a band called Simple Plan, these are the other two texts that shares the idea therefore both texts shares an alternate ending.

To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee and Max directed by Boaz Yakin both discusses the idea of how people being afraid of things they don’t understand and how, despite the misunderstandings, when there is trust the barrier of fear is destroyed. At the beginning of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Boo Radley is not a human being to Scout as her brother, Jem, describes him as the
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This evidently exposes the children’s nativity, because of their nativity this leads them to false information, consequently leads to their juvenile imagination. By this imagination Scout and Jem were afraid of him. Subsequently Harper Lee wants us to understand at the beginning that it is natural for many kids’ fear seem mystifying or irrationality. Lee is also making a point that we through understanding it’ll have to come along with trust. This breaks the walls of fearing one and another. This is best shown at the end of the text where Scout wasn’t frightened by Boo Radley anymore, she had learnt to understand and respect. She politely greeted “Hey Boo,” and Boo moves away from the shadows to approach Scout, which describe two individuals establishing trust and respect to each

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