To Kill A Mocking Bird
...The most crucial ones were between the characters, events, and conflicts. These differences and similarities were the deciding factors in which the book or the movie was better or worse. The movie gives a visual idea of the characters and aids people who prefer movies more to books to understand the story more, while the book is more detailed and it explains and describes the story more thoroughly. The next paragraphs will explain specifically why these differences and similarities exist.
The character of Scout was the main character in the book as well as the movie, her role as the main character was to express the views of the author through the views of an innocent child. The “book” Scout was very curious and asked many questions, whereas in the movie, there were fewer questions. Some of the questions, which she asked, were questions like “I don’t see why I have to go to school while Burris doesn’t”(pg. 30). Her simplistic views in the book were expressed very frequently, whereas in the movie, not so much of the questions that were asked in the book were asked. The Scout in the book was more caring of Atticus; for example, she didn’t want to cause Atticus any trouble so she went out of the way not to fight in the book, “Atticus had promised to wear me our if he ever heard of me fighting again” (pg. 74), but this point was not emphasized enough in the movie. The movie gives a good visual of the character Scout, but the “book” Scout is more sophisticated overall.
Jem was a character that acted as a companion as well as a role model for Scout. Jem appeared more childish in the movie then in the book; for example, in the movie when the tree hole at the Radely’s place was filled with cement, he was more scared like a child than emotional that they had just lost contact with Boo Radley. Also, the movie did not film the part where Jem made a special trip back to...
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