Harper Lee is known for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel was such a major successes.Years after the novel got published there was a movie made based off the novel. When comparing the book and the movie the book gives a better description of the characters plot and setting than the movie.
The book gives a better description of the characters. In the movie Scout was portrayed with brown hair. While Scout was described as blonde in the novel. Jem seemed a little younger than he was in the novel. Dill Harris seemed much shorter in the film and his hair was not “...snow white” Dill’s personality was not the same either. Lee inferred in the book that he exaggerated a lot but Dill in the movie did not seem to do the same. The movie did not portray all the characters the way Lee described them.
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For example, Jem never had a tree house. Jem also never wanted his father to play football. Also, when Jem goes to retrieve Scout from the Radley’s yard he got his pants stuck on the fence and found them sewn and folded on the fence for him to collect, but the movie shows Jem getting out of the Radley yard with his pants. Next, Dill thinks his father is going to come back for him in the movie which never happened in the novel. Jem and Scout found more things in the hole of the tree in the movie than in the book. Including, figurines, watch, coins. Where in the novel they found a few pieces of gum and a few coins. The hole in the tree was filled with the kids standing next to the tree in the film, where as in the book they came back the next day to find it filled. Scout, Dill and Jem ran into the courthouse and lifted Dill up to the window so they could know what is going on in the case in the movie. The book never depicted that event. Not only did the film rush into the the plot, but it added events and it got rid of events that the novel