Differences Between To Kill A Mockingbird Book And Movie

The trial scene in the novel and the movie adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are both powerful depictions of racism and injustice in the American South during the 1930s. Both the novel and the movie present the trial of Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. Though the trial scenes in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee and the movie To Kill A Mockingbird are similar, they have some differences. One similarity the novel and the movie have is Tom Robinson’s testimony. In the novel and the movie, Tom Robinson says the same thing almost word for word. He also acts the same with his facial expressions, when he stutters, and his emotions. The director kept this the same, because If he wanted it to be like the novel, then the trial scene would

One way the scene in the movie is different from the scene in the novel is the perspective it's told in. The movie scene is told in third person unlike the novel scene which is told in first person through the perspective of Scout Finch, a young girl who is trying to understand the complex adult world around her. How does this scene in the movie affect the story? It affects the story by helping the reader better see what's going on. In the book when Scout is telling us what is happening, we don’t fully understand what’s happening because Scout doesn’t fully understand what's going on either. In the movie, you can actually fully understand what's happening. Another difference between the book and the movie is you can actually see what's going on in the movie, because it's a movie. In the book, even though the author does a really good job to help you visualize the trial scene, you can't actually see it. In the movie however, you can see the trial scene because it’s on the screen in front of you. This helps because sometimes it can be hard to visualize a