To Kill A Mockingbird Movie Comparison

Loss of Insight

Anyone can drop all the hints they want about anything and everything; but without including at least one blunt statement per point or topic, he or she isn’t going to get very far. No matter how many hints dropped or glimpses snatched, there needs to be an obvious statement that does not beat around the bush to truly get one’s point out there and armed. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was made into a film, but many things were not added. In the “To Kill a Mockingbird” film, characters and scenes that were very important to the novel were missing. These missing elements played an important role in how the film was perceived as to how the novel was. With these changes, the film was drastically different than the novel as it

The omission of Dolphus Raymond in the To Kill a Mockingbird film excluded many important pieces of the novel. In the novel, while watching the case Dil feels sick and starts to cry. He and Scout then meet a man called Dolphus Raymond. As this does not happen in the film, Dolphus Raymond has never been introduced. As Dil never gets sick, the film takes away a key element in the Tom Robinson case: how powerful and frightening it really is. Raymond further explains this in the novel by explaining to the kids how people treat whites versus how they treat blacks. Instead, the only things to indicate how powerful the case is was when Reverend Sykes says, “Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’” (Mulligan, To Kill a Mockingbird). This portrays how much respect black people had for Atticus, Scout’s father, because he did something no one else would. He defended a black man, he treated a black man as his equal, and he placed a black man’s word over a white man’s. This is one of the few indications in the film as to how cruel the ways of Maycomb were to people based off their skin color. The ways of Maycomb can be perceived as slightly aggressive, when looking at the

Even though Maycomb provided residency for many country folk and was considered poor, it had the occasional wealthy. The Finches, for instance, would be considered wealthy to the rest of Maycomb. Aunt Alexandra had manners Maycomb had never seen. She was viewed as “one of the last of her kind: she had river-boat, boarding school manners; let any moral come along and she would uphold it” (Lee 172). This depicts the way Maycomb may not have been rude per say, but was not the most polite. The citizens viewed Aunt Alexandra as a real prim, proper lady as she had the characteristics the ladies were taught to have but could never master had they had no role model who exhibited these traits. Aunt Alexandra became the vision of a “perfect” lady, which goes to show how Maycomb lived when compared to Aunt Alexandra. Without this glimpse of perspective, the film lost an interesting take on how the ladies in Maycomb were expected to be. While Aunt Alexandra gave the reader a feeling of how Maycomb viewed ‘outsiders’, Aunt Alexandra also gave the reader insight as to how ‘outsiders’ viewed Maycomb. This is illustrated when Aunt Alexandra is discussing with Scout the ways of different citizens of Maycomb. Scout views her descriptions as "Everybody in Maycomb, it seemed, had a Streak: a drinking streak, a gambling streak, a mean streak, a funny streak" (Lee 172). This portrays people in Maycomb viewed