The book written by Harper Lee and the movie of To Kill a Mockingbird are different in many ways, but both of them give the same message to across to the viewer or reader. Many people watch the movies thinking that they do not have to read the books because they both say the same thing, but those people are wrong, they say and show different things happening to the events and characters. There are many differences in the book and the movie, most of them dealing with the characters and events. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee gives the details, and shows the events that happen to the Finch family in their hometown of Maycomb, the movie does the same thing, but it shows different aspects from the book, creating a reason to compare and contrast these two great works of art.
There were many characters that were just plain left out of the movie. Francis, who is Jem and Scout’s cousin is left out of the movie. Francis is the one that Scout beat up, for calling Atticus a “nigger-lover”(p.84), while visiting Aunt Alexandria. Aunt Alexandria is Jem and Scout’s aunt, or Atticus’s sister, she was also left out of the movie. Another person left out was Miss Rachael, who was Dills aunt who he stayed with over the summer, he stayed with Miss Stephanie in the movie. If one person was the same between the movie and the book, it would have had to of been Calpurnia. Calpurnia acted the same towards the children and toward the rest of the people. As in this quote she scolds Scout for making fun of Walter Cunningham in the same way: “Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty! Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ‘em-if you can’t act fit to eat at the table you can just set here and eat in the kitchen!”(p.25)
The Essay on Miss Maudie Scout Aunt Alexandra
As girls grow in life, they mature and change into women. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout, the main character, begins to mature into a woman. In the beginning of the book, she is a tomboy who cannot wait to pick a fistfight with anyone, but at the end, she lowers her fists because her father, Atticus, tells her not to fight. Scout's views of womanhood, influenced by how ...
There were some events that were also changed from the book to the movie. In the book, Jem and Scout got air rifles, in the movie they never did. In the movie they never show the snow, where Jem and Scout build a snowman. In the book, Miss Maudies house burns down, this event never happened in the movie.
As you can see, some events are changed and some of the characters are left out of the movie. Harper Lee gives the details, and shows the events that happen to the Finch family in their hometown of Maycomb. But you can also see that the movie aslo shows the events that happen to the Finch family in their hometown but in different aspects. There are reasons to both read the book, and see the movie because you get the whole story told in different vies so you can more of the story.
