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To Kill A Mockingbird Book Vs Movie

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To Kill a Mockingbird was about two little children in Maycomb, Alabama who had to face the harsh realities of racism and sexism. Scout Finch, Atticus Finch’s daughter is a naive little girl who matures throughout the book with the help of her father and her older brother Jem. Throughout the book, Atticus takes a case to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping Mayella Ewell who is a white girl. During the trial, Jem and Scout realize that this is wrong and everyone deserves to be treated equal. The movie for this book was directed decently, but the director could have done better. He focused on some important scenes, but not all of them. In the movie, the actors did a splendid job, especially Mary Badham who played …show more content…

The movie left out many important scenes, especially Scout’s character development. They took out the part where Scout went to school and back talked with her teacher, Miss Caroline, but then later on learned a lesson from Atticus that it’s important for her to see other people’s perspective on the view of things. This lesson is shown throughout the book, but not throughout the movie. There are some scenes where you can kind of tell Scout’s development in the movie. For example, in the ending of the movie, Scout says, “I stood on the Radley porch, and that was enough for me.” In the movie, anybody can tell that Scout’s imagination gets the best of her, because Scout and Jem always tried to figure out how to get Boo Radley to come outside. They can see that Scout has changed in the movie, but it’s not the same because the director leaves out scenes where Atticus tells Scout many words of wisdom. The director also left out the part where the audience could see Jem’s character development. Jem was also very childish like Scout, because he insisted on playing the “Radley Game”, which the director also cut out of the movie. In the book there was a part where Dill ran away from home without telling his mom and he tells Jem not to tell anybody, but right away, Jem goes to Atticus and tells him. If Jem was younger, then maybe he wouldn’t have told Atticus right away, but in the book we can see Jem’s character development rising. The director cuts out this whole entire scene which makes the movie only about the trial and very

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The second plot line that was removed from the movie is the Mrs Dubose morphine addiction. Both Scout and Jem have their own paths of maturation during the events of this book, and one of the largest watershed moments on Jem’s path of maturation was Jem having to read for Mrs Henry Lafayette Dubose. After Jem destroys Mrs Dubose’s flowers with a baton he got for Scout, Atticus forces Jem to read to Mrs Dubose every day for five weeks, Jem listens to his father and every day, he goes to Mrs. Dubose’s house to read to her in bed. Little does Jem know that he is really helping Mrs Dubose recover from a morphine addiction. This is explained when after weeks of reading Mrs Dubose finally dies, this doesn’t come as a shock to the children as she was

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