To Kill A Mockingbird: Comparing The Book And The Movie

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I think that the movie is better than the book because the movie has more light and there is music. And the book does not have light or music you have to make a picture in your mind. They are alike because they both say the same things.

Marley was dead to begin with and the clock went to the other direction and the hour clock rang for 1:00 and then he went back to sleep then there was a person standing there it was a women that Marley warned of.

Like when it said this that old Marley was as dead as a doornail. And when Marley talked to scrooge he said that three spirits will come. And present the one came at 1:00 then she took him to the past and when he was in love to And then the hour clock went off for the hour 2:00 and the

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