Similarities Between To Kill A Mockingbird Book And Movie

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America's Classic Novel…To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is one of the greatest American classics of all times. This story chronicles the life of two children and their father Atticus, as they go through the trials of living in a small Alabama town. To Kill a Mockingbird was released in 1960—it was a critical success and quickly became a beloved novel. In 1961, Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for her work, and the pressure was on to make a film that lived up to the novel. The film and novel have many similarities, and some differences, but both are a saddening story of racial injustice in the 1930s. The similarities between the film and the novel are numerous. They both have the same theme, the same story, and the same characters. However, the novel goes in more depth with all the characters and gives a sense of how everyone is feeling. A few of the characters in the novel were not in the movie. Some of the characters were kept out to make the characters of the film smaller and more manageable with time. By cutting out …show more content…

For example, Calpurnia, was portrayed in the movie as just the housekeeper, and barely had a part in the movie. Her character in the novel held great importance to the family, she filled a void of theirs while they were dealing with the loss of a wife and mother. Calpurnia stated “It's right hard to say, suppose you and Scout talked colored-folks' talk at home it'd be out of place, wouldn't it? Now, what if I talked white-folks' talk at church, and with my neighbors? They'd think I was puttin' on airs to beat Moses” (Lee 144). This was a great message that was lost in the movie. Calpurnia’s message in the novel was strong and impactful for the reader. The reader was reminded that periodically, conformity to what everyone else is doing can make

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