Mulligan's Illusion

Mulligan’s Illusion Why should someone read a long, overflowing book, like To Kill a Mockingbird, when they can just watch the movie? To Kill a Mockingbird is about a little girl’s childhood as she grows up in a racist town called Maycomb. While reading the book, one will learn about how people treated each other in the early 1900’s. This book has many stories attached to it, but the main idea is really to understand what it was like to live in racist times, as a young girl. The book and movie are both called “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Harper Lee wrote the book and the movie was directed by Robert Mulligan. Even though the movie was based off the book, details like characters and scenes were omitted. The differences portrayed in the novel and
She was an important base to the children’s lives and futures. Aunt Alexandra had many “sides” to her. She showed us that at times, she can be racist and prejudice, and at others she can be strong and sensitive. In the book, we saw how much Scout struggled with her aunt. It was important to see this because it was a big part of the whole story. In the book we see that Scout can pull through at times and become a lady. This is mainly because of Aunt Alexandra. Towards the end when Scout joins her aunt at the missionary circle, she sees a whole other side to Aunt Alexandra. Atticus breaks the news to them that Tom died, and Aunt Alexandra is upset and shocked. To Scout’s surprise, she goes back to the missionary circle with a smile on her face. This teaches Scout that she must be strong in times like those. In fact, scout said in the book, “After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I” (Lee 318). This proves to the reader that Scout really did learn a lot from Aunt Alexandra and that she is important in the plot of the story. Aunt Alexandra was such an important figure in the book, and taking her out of the movie made it much less
When Calpurnia took Jem and Scout to her “black” church they learned many things. The second the kids walked in they noticed the difference in the scenery compared to the glorious church they go to. Once the service begun, they realized that the church did no have hymn books. They soon realized that where they were was not much of a church in their minds, because it did not have the same type of wonderful things that their regular church had. They never really thought about how they are much more fortunate then some of the black people in their town. The second thing they learned in the church is that some black people are racist against white people, even though, as kids, they always thought it was only the other way around. Once Calpurnia walked into the church with the kids, a black woman named Lula came up to them. She started to yell at Cal, telling her that white children do not belong in a black church. The kids, accepting that they were not wanted, just let Lula’s words slip right off their shoulders. Calpurnia did not agree with that though. She told Lula that they were her company and that they were just innocent kids that never did anything wrong. All Jem said to Calpurnia was, “’Lets go home, Cal, they don’t want us here—‘” (Lee 158). This is important because this is when Jem and Scout realize that some black people do not like any white