To Kill A Mockingbird Book Vs Movie Analysis

Because a movie has much less time to showcase the events explained in the story, many scenes from a book often get cut out of the movie. If this did not happen, most movies that are based off of books would be much longer than the average two hours. One of the major differences I noticed while watching the film To Kill a Mockingbird was the fact that Aunt Alexandra was never present in the movie; she was not in one single scene! Because of this, the issue of Scout having to act like a “lady” was really never brought to the surface, and confrontations with cousin Francis never happened. Scout never had to sit through those miserable times when all of the town women would sit and eat lunch and say many preposterous things; she could even wear her overalls as much as she pleased. Another major difference between the book and the film was the narration. Scout was the protagonist in the book which meant that she was narrating the whole thing. In the movie, the majority of the time the events described by Scout in the book were acted out; in some parts in the movie, there was narration from whom was future Scout, but this was mainly used as a
Most of the time in movies we see the characters develop through their actions and dialogue because we cannot see their thoughts as opposed to a book; this is exactly what the director did in the film To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout and Jem were developed drastically throughout the movie and the book. For example, Scout realized that not everyone is who they are thought to be by the popular opinion; and Jem realized that some people aren’t like Atticus, and some people do not always do the right thing. Each character learned many new things throughout the plot of the book, which in the book is shown through the highly developed exposition, and shown through actions in the