To Kill A Mockingbird Book Vs Movie Essay

To Kill a Mockingbird Movie or Book With over 40 million copies sold, to kill a mockingbird is a life-changing novel that affected many readers. However in the movie, some aspects of the book were changed in the movie. Why would you change a plot that is already successful? To Kill a Mockingbird takes place around the 1930’s in Alabama. It is about the children of a lawyer who go on adventures. In the beginning of the book it is about the innocent childhood of the children but by the end, the children have experienced the cruel loss of innocence as they are propelled towards adulthood. Harper E. Lee wrote the book while Robert Mulligan Directed the movie. Aunt Alexandria, the scene where the kids went to church with Calpurnia, and when Jem annihilated Mrs. Dubose’s flowers were all contrasted between the novel and film. The novel was different from the movie because important themes and scenes were nonexistent in the movie.

Dubose’s flowers in the novel. In the novel there was an encounter with the Finch children and Mrs. Dubose that resulted in Jem destroying her flowers. Also in the novel, in the novel, Mrs. Dubose said Atticus was “No better than the n*****s and trash he works for” Jem obviously did not react lightly to this and he went into a rage and destroyed all of Mrs. Dubose’s flowers. When Atticus found out he made Jem read Ivanhoe to Mrs. Dubose every night. None of this ever happened in the movie, Jem did not destroy the flowers and he never had to read to her. All Mrs. Dubose did in the movie was talk to the children, she never called Atticus names. Because of this, Jem never learned a lesson of compassion. In the novel, the time that Jem was reading to Mrs. Dubose was very important because he learned an important lesson about empathy and charity. Also Jem judged Mrs. Dubose before he knew her. If Jem knew she had a morphine addiction, he would not have disliked her as much. “She was the bravest person I ever knew,” (Lee