To Kill A Mockingbird: Book Or Film

To Kill a Mockingbird: Book or Movie In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, a reclusive man saves two children from a drunk man. In the novel, Atticus Finch is assigned to defend a black man named Tom Robinson. A black man is wrongly sentenced for doing something that he didn’t do. Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout a few months after the case is over. Scout and Jem learn more about their mysterious neighbor. The 1962 movie called To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is not better than the book because it doesn’t help the readers learn the point of the story as well as the book does. The movie wasn’t as detailed as certain parts of the book were; in the book they explained more about Tom and Helen Robinson’s life then they did in the movie. The book tells more about Tom Robinson’s life. The author wrote, “I just want the whole lot of you to know one thing right now. That boy’s worked for me eight years an’ I ain’t had a speck o’trouble outa him. Not a speck” (Lee 195). In the novel Atticus said, “And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to ‘feel sorry’ for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people’s” (Lee 204). Harper Lee wrote, “… because she had to walk nearly a mile out of her way to avoid the
The book included many scenes with this theme in it. According to the text, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy… That’s why it’s a sin to kill mockingbird” (Lee 90). In the novel Heck Tate said, “To my way of thinkin’, Mr. Finch, taking the one man who’s done you and this town a great service an’ draggin’ him with his shy ways into the limelight-to me, that’s a sin” (Lee 276). The movie had the scene with Heck Tate and Atticus but it didn’t have the part with Miss Maudie. The movie did include a lot of important themes, but the book had more, which made it