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To Kill A Mockingbird Movie Scene Analysis

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Although there are some minor scene changes, there are still some important scenes left out. In the movie, Jem was looking in the hole and Mr. Radley had filled the hole up in front of Jem. But, in the book Mr. Radley had filled the hole up out of sight. One important scene that was drastically changed was where Tom Robinson had gotten shot. In the book, Tom Robinson was shot 17 times because he was trying to escape from prison. In the movie, Tom was only shot once. This was a drastic change because racism is prominent throughout the book. They had shot Tom 17 times because he was a colored man and they shot to kill. There are also many characters that appear in the book, but either are mentioned or aren 't even in the movie. One person is Aunt Alexandra and another is Cecil. …show more content…

Once the play is finished and Jem and Scout are on their way home, they hear footsteps. Quickly coming to a conclusion, they believe it is Cecil trying to scare them again. But instead, it is Bob Ewell. If Cecil had not scared them beforehand, then when Jem and Scout hear the footsteps they could have run away before anything bad would 've happened. Miss Maudie 's house had burned in the book. This had caused Scout to go outside to see what was going on and making Boo Radley give Scout a blanket because it is cold out. In the movie, Miss Maudie 's had does not burn, so this interaction between Scout and Boo does not happen. This interaction helps move the plot along to prove that Boo isn 't a mean, creepy person, but instead a kind, caring

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For instance, a major difference between the book and the movie is that in the movie, True Son doesn’t have a white brother. Gordon Butler is in the book, but he’s not in the movie. This is a really big difference because Gordon was a big part of True Son’s decision to save the whites. Luckily, the movie creators replaced him with someone else. The new character is Shenandoah, a housemaid that True Son falls in love with.

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Since Thomas is a lot more passive in the novel his stories are more easily understood. The biggest similarity in the book had to be the plot line where Victor's father dies in Arizona and he needed the help of Thomas to pick up his ashes. The difference is how they traveled to Arizona, in the film it was by bus in the novel it was by plane. Another difference in the amount of money Victor was given in the film he says his mother gave him fourth dollars in the novel he was given one hundred by the tribe. All in all the largest difference would be the origination

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In Chapter 12 of Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many events and situations in which irony is used to support the theme of the chapter. An example of this is in the very beginning of the chapter, when Scout is concerned about how distant and moody Jem is acting, and asks Atticus, “’Reckon he’s got a tapeworm?’” (Lee 153), to which Atticus replies no, and that Jem is growing. This is dramatic irony because the readers understand that Jem is acting oddly because he’s growing, but Scout doesn’t know this until she asks Atticus about it. This quote supports the theme of Chapter 12 by showing when Jem started to grow distance from Scout, getting aggravated with her and telling her to stop bothering him, and shows how the children

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Overall, most of these changes were made to target teen audience. Because of this, they wanted to get the plot moving quicker to keep the attention span of younger, teenage viewers. A main difference I saw while comparing the book and movie was the change in the plot format. In the book, there was a really nice plot with an exposition that ran nicely into the climax. However, in the movie they completely got rid

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Suspense is what makes a book become an outstanding book. This is why Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, heaped suspense into the book. Interestingly, suspense is defined as a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. Lee uses numerous literary techniques to develop suspense in the story. Two that she uses to employ suspense is cliffhangers and imagery.

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In the passage Jem and Scout walk home during the dark hours,giving Bob Ewell an opportunity to stage an attack. As Bob Ewell attacks them Boo Radley rushes in to rescue Jem and Scout. After this Scout now understands what Atticus meant it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. The killing of a mockingbird is much like killing the innocent. It is beyond a crime and worse than the most heinous atrocities.

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Another difference is that in the movie they go into town, but in the book it 's never mentioned. Something else that was different was that in the book the mood was happy most of the time, while in the movie the mood was sad. A difference between the book and the movie is that in the book momma was going to burn Byron, but in the movie she does not burn him. A big difference is that in the

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Such as the fact that Nick never meets Tom and Myrtle’s downstairs neighbors, the McKee’s, directly, how Daisy gave Gatsby his name because he introduced himself as Jay Gatz, and how Myrtle never purchased the dog directly though it is still present in the movie. There is also the fact that Gatsby and Nick are not introduced the same way as they are in the book. In the book Nick is sitting at a table with Jordan and Gatsby and mentions that he hasn’t seen the host. Nick still mentions that in the book, but Gatsby mentions Nick over without Jordan in sight changing that small piece of the storyline. The other minor difference that you pick up in the movie that you do not see throughout the book is that Daisy looks like she knows Gatsby is poor when she meets him, which changes the way their relationship is perceived.

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