Differences Between To Kill A Mockingbird Book And Movie

Many differences and similarities are seen when comparing To Kill a Mockingbird, the novel written by Harper Lee, to the movie based on the novel, produced by Alan J. Pakula and screen written by Horton Foote. The novel is set in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. It tells the story of the children of an attorney named Atticus Finch from the perspective of one of the children, the six-year-old girl, Scout Finch, who face the trials of their father defending Tom Robinson, a black man. The novel proves to be a story of maturation for the two children as they grow and begin to see the world from different perspectives. A comparison of Harper Lee’s novel to the movie made from it reveals a necessary omission of details and information within the movie, due to time constraints, which results in a decreased development of the theme of the importance of education, both moral and intellectual, that proves to lessen the strength of the overall message, weakening the quality of lessons of the movie in comparison to the novel, …show more content…
Atticus still receives Tom Robinson’s case from Judge Taylor and tries to the best of his ability to defend him. In both the novel and the movie, Mr. Cunningham pays Atticus back with items not money and joins the lynch mob which Scout talks away. Like the novel, in the movie, the children pester the Radley family which includes: touching their house, watching them constantly, and sneaking out to their house at night to see if they can get a look at Boo Radley. In both versions of the story, Jem thinks Atticus is just an old man until Atticus shoots Tim Johnson, the rabid dog. Tom Robinson’s case is the same minus a few omissions of minor details in both mediums and the book and the movie end in the same way with Scout taking Boo Radley home on the night he saves her from Bob Ewell’s