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Essay On To Kill A Mockingbird Book Vs Movie

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In 1960, Harper Lee published To Kill A Mockingbird, and in 1962, To Kill A Mockingbird was made into a movie. Harper Lee was offered the opportunity to write the screenplay, but she declined the offer, and Horton Foote ended up writing the screenplay. Many aspects of the book were kept in the movie, but many things including characters and entire scenes were eliminated or changed. A few scenes such as when Jem, Dill, and Scout go down to the courthouse and see Bob Ewell before the trial were even added to the movie and were not originally in the book. The book and movie do have many similarities, but also some differences. From the description of Atticus in the book, I knew he was 50 years old, a lawyer, smart, scholarly, and very respectful to everyone, but I was surprised at how he looked and acted in the movie in comparison to my vision of him that I got from the book. From the …show more content…

In the book, there are many chapters that help the reader get to know the characters better. This is done not by telling the reader about the character, but through events that the characters go through. Another thing was that I felt like the book had more emotion, but I think this was because I had gotten to know the characters in the book better than I did in the movie. The book is also narrated from Scout’s perspective, while the movie is not. This changes the feel of the story, making the movie feel a little bit less personal than the book.
While many of the less important characters in the book are either not very involved in the movie, or completely eliminated from the movie, the main characters such as Atticus, Scout, and Jem are all fairly similar in the movie compared to the book. I felt like overall the movie was very faithful to the book, and that Horton Foote did a very good job of writing the screenplay without changing too much of the

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