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,…