To Kill A Mockingbird Book Vs Movie

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Books and movies. Two words that are different in many ways. In books, authors use more of an in-depth story, more characterization, and more scenes because books can be as long as an author wants them to be. In movies, however, authors use less characterization and less scenes because they don’t have 10 hours to make a movie and no one is going to watch a 10-hour movie. That is why they must shorten the characterization and scenes to at most 3 hours. In a similar way, in To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many differences between the book and the movie. Specifically, there are differences in characterization, plot, and used of light and darkness, between the novel and movie versions of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Ewell trying to intimidate Atticus into not doing a good job in defending Tom Robinson. In the movie, it showed Jem, Dill and Scout showing up in the courtroom at the beginning. Then, Mr. Ewell went up to Atticus and told him that he felt very sorry for a lawyer like him to be appointed to be Tom’s lawyer. Atticus defends Tom by saying that he had been appointed to be Tom’s lawyer, and that was what he was going to do, defend Tom. This scene is important because it shows how Mr. Ewell first feels about Atticus being Tom’s lawyer, and how Mr. Ewell changed when he saw Atticus having good intentions to defend Tom. In addition to the movie, in the book Ms. Dubose makes Jem read to him every night for a month. In the text, it states, “Jem seemed fascinated by a rose in the carpet. “Atticus” he said, “she wants me to read to her.” This quote shows that Jem was going to have to read to Ms. Dubose for a whole moth. Ms. Dubose however, didn’t punish Jem for ruining her flowers, she is making Jem read to her because she wanted to get rid of her addiction to morphine and Jem reading to her was going to distract her from taking the medication. This is a climactic moment in the book because Ms. Dubose teaches the kids what true bravery really was, and this lesson was going to be needed for the Tom Robinson trial. Thus, even though the Mr. Ewell and Ms. Dubose scene weren’t included in either the …show more content…
In the movie, when Jem left his pants at Arthur Radley’s house, the author uses darkness in Arthur Radley’s backyard to show that the house was spooky and no one liked going there. However, when Jem and Scout reached their backyard, there was more light and there was a lighter shade of gray than when the kids were in Arthur Radley’s house. In the text, however, they can’t show light and darkness because a person can’t see what is happening in a book, but the author uses descriptive words to describe the light and darkness. In the text, it states, “Then I saw a shadow. It was a shadow of a man with a hat on.” This quote shows the author is using active words like shadow to show the darkness that the Radley house brings. Thus, authors describe light and darkness in different ways, in a movie using darker or lighter motion pictures, and in a book using descriptive imagery words that resembles light and darkness, to show what is
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