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To Kill A Mockingbird Book Vs Movie Essay

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To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a classic story about the trial of a black man being accused of raping a white woman. This novel is so important because some of this is still relevant in our society today.Although racism today is not as harsh as it was in 1935, it is still one of the issues in our country. To Kill A Mockingbird shows younger generations how different things were back then. The book is better than the movie because the book digs deeper into detail and explains every little thing that the movie did not explain. Scout is a more complex character in the book, Mrs. Dubose has a bigger impact of the story in the book, and Bob Ewell is more angry and aggressive in the book.

Scout is very intelligent and inquisitive. She always wants answers even when it is impossible to find an answer. In my opinion, Scout was more complex in the book. There were more scenes in the book where she was seen to be angry and aggressive. The scene with Cecil Jacobs is a primary scene in the book, and it was only in the movie for a very …show more content…

In the movie, Bob Ewell was just scary, and I believe that he should only be portrayed as scary is during the attack scene. Throughout the rest of the story, I think that he should be played as a mean, grumpy, and aggressive man. The attack scene was the main scene that Bob Ewell was in and played a very big role in it. When Scout and Jem were walking home, someone came out of nowhere and attacked them. In the book, it was very detailed and helped the readers understand what was happening. “Something crushed the chicken wire around me. Metal ripped on metal and I fell to the ground and rolled as far as I could, floundering to escape my wire prison…” (262). That short passage just gave us so much detail, and it was only two sentences. In the movie, you could not tell what was going on as well as you could in the

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