Similarities And Differences Between To Kill A Mockingbird Book And Movie

After reading the book To Kill a Mockingbird and watching the movie. I’ve seen a lot of differences and similarities while comparing the book and the movie. The movie doesn’t put every scene that was in the book, it only puts the main points that were in the novel. They didn’t use Scout’s point of view throughout the whole film which didn’t give her perspective of all the events that were occurring. The whole movie was just showing all the events that happened. In the book it gave Scout’s perspective of everything that was occurring. Which gave us more insight of what she thought. Comparing the movie and the book, I’ve seen a lot of similarities. One of the events that happened in both the film and the novel was the courtroom scene. In the

In the film they left out lots of important scenes. The movie seemed rushed. They should’ve made the movie with each and every scene, even if it would’ve been five hours long. There are people who are big fans of the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, and then seeing how the film didn’t use every scene makes it disappointing to watch. An example of some differences were in the courtroom scene. Most of the scene was the same except for a couple parts. The difference that caught my eye was Tom Robinson’s arm. It was completely different comparing the novel from the movie. In the book it said that he had caught his arm in a grinder. His arm was described as a small shriveled hand that was fully twelve inches shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side. In the movie his left hand looked exactly the same as his right hand. Another difference was during the courtroom scene as well. This scene wasn’t even included in the film; it’s important to the theme. It was when Dill started crying and couldn’t stop. Scout had to take Dill because people started to hear him in the balcony. Scout had thought he was crying because he hadn’t fully recovered from running away. Dill wasn’t crying over that he was crying because of how Mr. Gilmer was treating Tom. Dill and Scout being kids, they still have their innocence. They're starting to see how cruel the world is; they’re not accepting, but upset of how the world truly is.

I’ve concluded that the book and movie have some similarities and plenty of differences. A scene that was very similar was the case. Almost every single line they said in each testimony was exactly the same how it was in the book. There were lots of differences as well. One difference was the way Tom’s arms looked. His arm looked perfectly fine in the movie, but in the novel it supposedly was shorter than the other. Looking at both versions of To Kill a Mockingbird. My favorite version is the the novel. It gives out more meaning to the theme than the movie did. The movie rushes straight into the trial. Unlike, the book it shows the little parts that add up to the theme. Looking at both of the versions, I’ve learned that in any movie that has a book, not everything will be exactly alike or completely