Alexa Glady
Mrs. Marton
Adv. Eng. 9 - F
25 May 2023
Compare/Contrast Essay
Many books and their film adaptations are very different, but the film adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is quite similar to the book, with small differences. To Kill A Mockingbird is about Jean Lousie Finch, also known as Scout, and her family. The Finch family includes Scout, Jem, Atticus, and their cook, Calpurnia. The story is set in Maycomb, Alabama: a tired little town during the Great Depression. Scout, the protagonist and narrator, is looking back to when she was about six to nine years old, while her father was taking on a controversial court case. To Kill A Mockingbird, the novel by Harper Lee, is similar to the film version because Scout is a tomboy and Atticus acts proudly about defending Tom Robinson; yet the film differs by not showing Aunt Alexandra.
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In the novel, Scout is always wearing overalls instead of a dress like other little girls do. In the movie, Scout is also shown wearing overalls, not a dress. In both the movie and the novel, Scout can be seen getting in fights with other children, such as when she beat up Walter Cunningham for getting her in trouble: “… I was rubbing his nose in the dirt… ‘He made me start off on the wrong foot’” (22). She also gets in trouble for nearly getting into a fight with Cecil Jacobs after he insulted her father for taking on Tom Robinson’s case “He had announced… that Scout Finch’s daddy defended n*****s” (74). These are not very ladylike actions, which shows how Scout is a tomboy in both the novel and the