Differences Between To Kill A Mockingbird Book And Movie

To Kill a Mockingbird is an alluring novel filled with many lessons. When creating the movie, did the director portray the same interpretation that the novel showed? This novel is about a girl named Scout and her brother, Jem who lives in Maycomb Alabama during the Great Depression. During their summer they befriend a boy named Dill, they start to spy on their reclusive neighbor Boo Radley. Many things change for Scout and Jem when Atticus, their father is assigned to a case to defend a black man accused of raping a white girl, Mayella Ewell. The novel was written by Nelle Harper Lee, who was born in 1926 in a small town in Alabama. Robert Mulligan directed the movie and released it two years after it was published. The differences between

Throughout the book, it shows how Aunt Alexandra was trying to raise Scout properly, trying to make her act more like a lady which shows the conformity of the time. ‘“Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born.”’ (Lee 108 ). all things considered, Aunt Alexandra was a big help to Atticus raising the children, in the film, Aunt Alexandra was not present. Without aunt Alexandra, the movie lost the important lesson of how back then, all girls act with the “lady-like” attitude. In addition , the movie was not able to depict a mother figure in Scout and Jem’s life like how Aunt Alexandra was in the novel. Due to the movie missing Alexandra, the audience lost many important lessons that deepen the story. To Kill a Mockingbird is a indubitable informative book that teaches both the characters and the reader lessons. The book and movie have many differences that changed the overall picture for each one. Some major differences between the two are the siblings visiting the black church, Cecil Jacobs scaring them in the forest, and Aunt Alexandra existing. In the end, the novel and film had differences, yet both were able to portray the theme of prejudice, the theme of radical