Gender was a predominant theme in the text. Film’s limitation resulted the theme’s removal. However, the director Robert Mulligan made several adjustments in regards cast changes. For example, he discarded the existence of Atticus’s siblings, Alexandra and Jack Finch. Therefore, Robert’s decision made the film differs from the text. The gender theme was not revealed entirely. Scout had not encountered the ruthless criticism of her aunt, regarding her attire, and her unoccupied self with Maycomb’s feminine tradition. “Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire.” (Chapter 9, page 90). On the other hand, the book had an open realm of social ideologies that Scout narrated. With an open realm of ideas and themes, the book has an advantage
