To Kill A Mockingbird Movie And Book Comparison

To Film A Mockingbird

“Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.” Does this quote by Stephen King have it right when comparing the timeless novel, To Kill A Mockingbird with the Robert Mulligan film version? This touching book is about the protagonist, Scout, retelling the story of her childhood. Her youth was lived in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. At this time, there was still much segregation in the South and it affected how she grew up. To Kill A Mockingbird is by Harper Lee, and the director of the movie was Robert Mulligan. Knowing that there were some scenes, which provided important themes and plots, the director made it different than in the book. There were some similarities, but also many differences that impacted the novel, such as a radical change in scenes and less in depth descriptions of the characters.

Inside the book, we learned that most black people could not read. Also, it was showing that most of the black people were accepting of Jem and Scout. A man, Zeebo, who arose from the crowd said, “we’re mighty glad to have you all here. Don’t pay no ‘tention to Lula, she contentious because Reverend Sykes threatened to church her” (Lee 159). Out of all the people attending the black church at that time, Lula was the only person who was against Jem and Scout attending the black church with Calpurnia. Contrary to the book, this section was left out of the movie. It is different because there is not a church scene in the movie. Because of the film not showing us about the home life of Calpurnia, a certain bridge is lost that connects the black people with Jem and Scout. Without this scene, viewers of the movie would not realize how strong the connection is between the African-Americans, and Jem and