The novel To Kill a Mockingbird was adapted into a film in the year of 1962. The Harper-Lee-written book came with great popularity and was then created into the movie. Though two different mediums, the film stays very true to the book itself. Along with any other novel-based-film, there are a handful of deviations. Characters like Aunt Alexandra and Uncle Jack are omitted, Mrs. Dubose and others have their plot lines lessened, but as a similarity, Tom Robinson dies a very indistinguishable death in both the book and the movie.
Starting off, Aunt Alexandra, Uncle Jack, and quite a few more characters from the novel are fully omitted from the movie. In the book, Aunt Alexandra inspires the ideal of Scout acting ladylike, and since her presence is absent in the movie, this idea is not created. Because of this, many scenes from the novel of arguments between the two and others are nonexistent in the movie. Uncle Jack gifts Jem and Scout with their air rifles, which inspires the famous quote of the book, “Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird”. Uncle Jack's gifts create the quotation to also name the novel itself. …show more content…
Dubose's character is very diluted. Jem never goes to read to her daily as he did in the book. In the novel, Jem's character develops greatly and he matures over time because of the time he spends with Mrs. Dubose. He doesn't go through this maturity change and development in the movie as greatly because of the absence of a reason to do so. Mrs. Dubose plays a very large role in Jem's growth as a young boy in the novel, as he and Scout portrayed her as “plain hell” before he spent time with the elderly woman. Though he misses these changes in the film, Jem still matures a tad in the
Starting off, Aunt Alexandra, Uncle Jack, and quite a few more characters from the novel are fully omitted from the movie. In the book, Aunt Alexandra inspires the ideal of Scout acting ladylike, and since her presence is absent in the movie, this idea is not created. Because of this, many scenes from the novel of arguments between the two and others are nonexistent in the movie. Uncle Jack gifts Jem and Scout with their air rifles, which inspires the famous quote of the book, “Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird”. Uncle Jack's gifts create the quotation to also name the novel itself. …show more content…
Dubose's character is very diluted. Jem never goes to read to her daily as he did in the book. In the novel, Jem's character develops greatly and he matures over time because of the time he spends with Mrs. Dubose. He doesn't go through this maturity change and development in the movie as greatly because of the absence of a reason to do so. Mrs. Dubose plays a very large role in Jem's growth as a young boy in the novel, as he and Scout portrayed her as “plain hell” before he spent time with the elderly woman. Though he misses these changes in the film, Jem still matures a tad in the