“To Kill a Mockingbird” was written by Harper Lee in 1960. The plot of the is loosely based on Lee’s childhood, having the sense of innocence about seeing the world through the eyes of the 6-year-old tomboy, Scout. The entire story is Scout looking back at her childhood now as an adult, seeing the flaws in society and having no moral trouble in calling out the injustices of the past.
The Movie is very faithful to the book, but the way the story is told is what makes the major difference.
In the book and movie, we watch as Atticus Finch, Scout’s more liberal father has to come to the defense for Tom Robinson, a handicapped African American man who has been wrongfully accused of raping a 19-year-old white girl. Although all the evidence points otherwise the town is convinced that Tom did it, making Attics come forward as his only voice of defense, and because of these Attics is shunned by
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Where the Boo Radley and the Tom Robinson plots are the biggest and most memorable, but there are tons of little stories in there as well. The Movie however focuses on the two major plots, so it’s not so much of a culmination of stories from over three years as it is just these two over one summer, which makes it a little more focused and gives a quicker sense of pacing.
But sadly the movie misses out on so much by telling the story this way, taking away time from more minor characters or just growing the major ones. Jem in the movie doesn't get into nearly as many fights with Scout as in the book, and we never really get to see him change or grow into the sort of angsty teenager the he was in the novel, but what it lacks in growing characters over time it gains in the freedom to move away from Scout. In the movie we break away from Scout for a while and be shown other aspects that she would not know about, giving more information to the