Novels have always been better than the film adaptations because of the novels being more descriptive. The novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee, explains the story of two children, Scout and her brother Jem, growing up in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s. Tom Robinson, also from Maycomb, is a black man who was wrongly accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell, from their town. The children’s father, Atticus, is Tom’s defense attorney and because of this fact the children know almost everything about the case. In the beginning of the novel, Scout and Jem seem very naive, but as the novel progresses they start to see the real adult world and not the sugar-coated version they had seen before the trial began. One …show more content…
Dubose, the neighbor of the Atticus and his children, called Atticus a “nigger lover” because he was defending Tom Robinson, while in the film the father of the woman that was raped and beaten was the one who said those cruel words to Atticus. A less significant difference between the book and novel was that in the film everyone enters the courtroom at the same time and separate into their own separate areas. However, in the novel, the white people were the first ones to enter the courtroom, the black folks second, and then the two races took their seats in their own separate areas. The book is a little different from the film because I do not think it is possible for the movie to capture the layers of meaning of the book. In the book, it went into detail about Tom Robinson and explained how kind, caring, and helpful he was to everyone. In the film, it did not give many examples of his kindness and did not completely describe his character. Many things were as I imagined when watching the film such as Atticus’ character and the way he was portrayed. In both the novel and film he seems to maintain a gentle and caring tone with the other characters throughout the whole