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To Kill A Mockingbird Movie Vs Book

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After reading and watching the book and movie of to kill a mockingbird I have noticed many differences between them. Although the movie is about the book there are many parts that were either changed or not put in. These changes may not affect the main storyline, but it can affect the readers of the book. The first main difference that I noticed between the book and the movie is Miss.Maudie's house fire. In the book there was a section that the finches neighbor, Miss.Maudie, who's house starts on fire one night and everyone rushes over to check it out. This section has a big part in the kids obsession with Boo Radley. In the book when the kids sat in front of the Radley house cold, while watching the fire a mysterious man suddenly showed,who ended up being Boo Radley, came out and gave Scout a blanket because she was cold. After this happened the kids soon figured out that it was Boo Radley that gave Scout the blanket. This experience changed the kid view on Boo Radley from being this crazy psychopath to being a nice guy. Without this section the movie was less descriptive about Boo Radley. …show more content…

In the book the section where the kids find the items in the hole in the tree is changed in the movie. In the movie Jem shows Scout the items that he found in the tree, but in the book they all find the items in the tree. In the book they also find a pack of gum and a piece of gum with the other items, while the movie doesn't show gum in the box Jem shows Scout. One last thing that was different about this part was when Nathan Radley cemented the hole. In the book they found the items a while before Nathan Radley cemented the hole, while in the movie right after they found the items Nathan Radley cemented the hole. This affects the story by limiting the description on Nathan

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The most important similarity between the book and the movie is that the plot is very much the same. Quite often in book-to-movie adaptations, the movie has the same characters and some similar plot elements, but it seems that very few movies are a solid visual representation of what the book actually is. To Kill a Mockingbird, the movie, is a very good representation of the book in many ways: the actors accurately portray their characters, all the major plot points are shown, and the setting is the same. However, the way in which the movie and the book portray certain emotions or depict different scenes is, what I would consider, the greatest difference. In the book, the only way to describe scenes and characters and emotions is through words.

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During the 1960's, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was a best seller almost immediately after it was published. To Kill a Mockingbird was a book about prejudice and segregation. When the book was made into the movie the creators couldn't fit all the details in the movie leading to some similarities and differences. To Kill a Mockingbird was filled with a lot of details and information. Therefore, the movie left out some important factors.

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Another major difference between the graphic novel and the Movie was in the novel that the First Purchase Church was important because it was a black church and that was the first money they spent on something after being freed as slaves. Calpurnia takes Jem and Scout to the church and Reverend Sykes takes them to the front pew and Calpurnia gives Jem and Scout dimes and tells them to keep it. This is important because it shows the differences between the lives of whites and blacks in Maycomb. In the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” there was

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  The differences between the two scripts may be limited but there are some differences. One difference between the book and the movie is the use of the music.   The Glass Menagerie is a memory play

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To Kill A Mockingbird Compare and Contrast It is often a challenge for movie writers to create a movie exactly the same as a book. They try their best to give the audience the same or similar experience as reading the book. This often proves difficult, and things don’t end up being the same. This is shown in the film version of To Kill A Mockingbird. The film differs from the novel with its narration and addressing female identity, but it is similar in the way it talks about Scout’s experience with Boo Radley.

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In the book To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee Jean Louis (Scout), is the main character of the story. Juts like the movie, Scout is a young girl looking back on her life with new relizations of what it all meant. The book and the movie both do an extrodanry job on building up Scouts’ character on who she actually is, and what represents in the story. As the book developes, it is easy to see that Scout is not like other girs in 1930’s, she is a tomboy (probably because she does not have a mother), she is outgoing, and wise. Although, the scene where it shows how Scout is smarter than the children in school is not in the movie, it is mentioned in the movie; when she explains to Atticus that she no longer wants to attend school( Harper Lee.

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Atticus Finch is quoted “You never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb in his skin and and walk around in it.” This quote from the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee supports the idea of truly getting to know a person to understand what they go through. Although the film and novel can compare, many aspects prove to show they also contrast. Not only do events contrasts but the ways the universal truths are supported compare and contrast from the novel and film. The themes that one does not truly know another person until they are in their shoes and that power is no blessing itselfs except when it is used to protect innocence are both fully supported in both the film and novel

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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee was made into a movie in 1962. The story features the Finch family, the Radley family, and the Ewell family, all who watch their town struggle with the Great Depression and racism. One of the main scenes in both the novel and movie in set in the court during the trial of Tom Robinson who has been accused of raping a white girl, Mayella Ewell. In my opinion, the movie and the novel have more similarities than there are differences. The major similarities are in the order of the interviews and their dialogue with the attorneys.

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