ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
Videos by Tag 4102 videos
GED Social Studies 1.1 Civics and Government
This video defines utopias and dystopias, and investigates how a utopia might become a dystopia. Can a seemingly perfect world actually be a dystop...
We may all be fools when it comes to love, but thankfully none of us will accidentally switch places with our twin brother and fall in love with ou...
To Kill A Mockingbird 241970 Views
Share It!
Description:
This video summarizes Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, as told by Scout, the daughter of Atticus, a civil rights attorney in the Deep South. There’s a trial, a school play, and even a couple of deaths—but absolutely no mockingbirds are killed.
Transcript
- 00:04
To Kill a Mockingbird ala shmoop..... my name's Scout and anybody
- 00:10
who doesn't like what I've got to say gets a fresh knuckle sandwich I don't [Scout punching a sandwich]
- 00:14
know why my dad decided naming something dumb like Jean Louise but it was
- 00:18
probably revenge against whoever named him Atticus he probably didn't pulverize
- 00:23
them like I would though Atticus is more of a peacemaker which is
Full Transcript
- 00:27
great for him but I wish he'd cut me a little slack after all it's not easy to
- 00:32
avoid fights when your dad's a civil rights lawyer in the deep south things
- 00:37
used to be pretty tame around here me and my brother Jim who can be more of a [Scout and Jim walking along the road]
- 00:40
cow patty than a jewel hung out a lot with our runter neighbor dill seriously
- 00:46
doesn't anybody have a normal name in this town? Anyway,
- 00:49
the three of us got up to lots of awesome hijinks we even got some sweet
- 00:54
air rifle so we could shoot birds no mocking birds though apparently they're
- 00:58
the most innocent angels of the bird world we also did some poking around the
- 01:02
Radley place you've heard about the Radley's right they're a pretty weird
- 01:07
family but hands down the weirdest stuff is the gossip about Boo Radley and the
- 01:11
cat eating dad stabbing monster next door he is one [Monster appears]
- 01:16
crazy dude so Jen and Dill and I tried to bug him and get him to hang out with us
- 01:21
you know when I say it aloud it doesn't sound like such a great idea but I liked
- 01:25
going by boos house because there was this magic tree that always had goodies [Scout approaches tree]
- 01:29
in it sticks of gum, loose change and also some soap dolls that look just like
- 01:34
Jim and me yeah I hear how creepy it sounds now it was almost like some unseen
- 01:40
person was watching our every move from the Radley house crazy right yeah good
- 01:46
times until my dad took a case defending Tom
- 01:49
Robinson a negro who was accused of raping a white lady I'm not sure what
- 01:54
that word really means because nobody wants to tell me I really should get a [Scout reading a book]
- 01:58
dictionary but whatever it was everyone got pretty hot and bothered about it
- 02:02
throwing around the n-word and getting all up in my grill the whole
- 02:07
court thing was a huge drag for me and Jem Atticus had to do lots of overtime
- 02:11
and stuff he even went to the jailhouse to catch up on some reading and got a [Atticus appears in jailhouse]
- 02:16
visit from a bunch of dudes that were a few torches and pitchforks away from an
- 02:20
angry mob luckily dad has me to protect him he has got to have backup muscle
- 02:24
right now I just need to convince aunt Alexandra of that she keeps trying to
- 02:29
get me to stop swearing change out of my overalls
- 02:32
whoever heard of a bodyguard in a dress and I can't wear pearls what if they get [Scout wearing a dress and Bruce Lee appears]
- 02:37
all tangled up in my right hook then there was the trial that's when I
- 02:41
realized my dad is a total superhero he was all this white lady was beaten up by
- 02:47
a left-handed guy what do you think about that white lady's left-handed dad
- 02:51
which is pretty smart because Tom couldn't even use his left hand at all
- 02:55
really in fact the whole thing sounded like a pretty bogus story but that [Jury appears in court]
- 02:59
didn't stop the jury from finding Tom guilty and then he got shot trying to
- 03:04
escape from prison...Dill thinks that Boo Radley has the right idea staying locked
- 03:08
away from the world hey who knows maybe he does on the bright side I won the
- 03:14
starring role of Jon Ham in the school play an unexpected bonus of being
- 03:19
giant ham the costume came in handy when a white ladies racist dad tried to stab [Man tries to stab scout]
- 03:24
me Jem ended up with a broken arm too bad he wasn't dressed up like a bowl of
- 03:29
mashed potatoes or something just as I was thinking guess this is how
- 03:32
I'm gonna die as a giant ham Boo Radley saved the day and the bad guy fell on
- 03:37
his own knife like an episode of America's dumbest criminals
- 03:41
now at least, that's the official story you want to know what I think I think boo
- 03:46
killed that guy but Dad and the sheriff wanted to keep him safe from the
- 03:49
paparazzi and knows that old ladies with cakes I mean the guy's spent his whole [Old ladies appear with cakes]
- 03:54
life hiding he's not really ready for social networking so maybe we should
- 03:58
leave Boo alone hes like a mockingbird he didn't really hurt anybody or at
- 04:02
least nobody who didn't deserve it... so in conclusion we shouldn't shoot Boo
- 04:07
Radley with air raffles, more a quandry solved, don't you think?
Related Videos
We may all be fools when it comes to love, but thankfully none of us will accidentally switch places with our twin brother and fall in love with ou...
They say that honesty is the best policy, but Jack lies about his identity and still gets the girl. Does that mean we should all lie to get what we...
Ever wish you could remember everything that you ever studied? How about everything that everyone has ever studied? Yeah, pretty sure our brains ju...
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is an American classic. Hope you're not expecting any exciting shower scenes though. It's not that kind of book.
Do not go gentle into that good night. In fact, if it's past your curfew, don't go at all into that good night. You just stay in your good bed and...