Puerto Rican Maria, played by Natalie Wood, and white Tony, played by Richard Beymer, were the two lovers.The camera circles and tracks slowly from left to right along various collections of carefully-arranged objects in magnified close-up, while nostalgic music plays (Elmer Bernstein""s lyrical score):the broken pocket watch on a chaina large safety pin and a chainIndian head and Lincoln head penniesa mechanical pencila translucent marblea jacka black and white striped marble that rolls and collides with a black marblea beaten-up crayona disembodied pen pointanother clear marblea buttonthe broken pocket watch on a chain (again)a harmonicaanother multi-colored marblea silver whistleAfter drawing a simple, stick-figured ""mocking-bird"", he girl shades in the winged creature and then tears the paper through he bird, melodramatically foreshadowing the racial tensions and divisions that will tear apart the innocence of the town and forever alter the child""s fragile memories.Jaquith as she boarded the ship in New York:Now, pull your own weight.I""ve taught you the technique, now use it.Forget you""re a hidebound New Englander.Unbend, take part, contribute.Be interested in everything - and everybody.Charlotte becomes more self-assured, confident and attractive and she discovers life anew.The camera zooms in on the chic young woman""s amused face as she converses with her fellow tourist - she recalls her mother""s words of warning years ago:Charlotte: I was thinking of my mother.Later that evening, the camera intrudes through a gauzy curtain covering the Finch window into an intimate bedtime scene in Scout""s bedroom, where she finishes reading a passage outloud o her father fromRobinson Crusoe.