At around 15 minutes C.T. and Tanya stop to watch a bird in a tree singing.
Tanya calls to the bird "Hello, hello", and the bird answers.
C.T. then calls "Be happy, be happy" with a similar response.
The singing bird's long tail feathers and the mimicking of human voices indicate that the bird is a mockingbird.
C.T. then tells his dog "Birds got a right to live, too, so don't you go around trying to scare 'em. It's all right to chase one once in a while, but if you catch one, there's gonna be trouble".
The singing bird's long tail feathers and the mimicking of human voices indicate that the bird is a mockingbird.
C.T. then tells his dog "Birds got a right to live, too, so don't you go around trying to scare 'em. It's all right to chase one once in a while, but if you catch one, there's gonna be trouble".
"See How They Run" was Mary Elizabeth Vroman's first published short story, written while she was a schoolteacher in rural Alabama. First published in Ladies' Home Journal in 1951, it also appeared in Ebony magazine in 1952. When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the rights to adapt the story to film, Vroman helped write the screenplay, and as a result, became the first black member of the Screen Writers Guild.