To Kill a Mockingbird: Movie vs. Novel Preferably, a novel and its film version can complement each other. However, novels can accomplish things that films cannot, and films can accomplish things that novels cannot. Also, film has limitations that a novel doesn’t have. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee and was made into a film in 1962, which also received many awards. Although the film projects the main events of the story, it is different from the novel because some characters are not
To Kill A Mockingbird, like most novels, had been made into a film, and though the movie is may be similar to the book, which is very rare, the movie does lack some key details that were found exclusively in the book. One very notable difference is Aunt Alexandra, a very influential and strong character in the book, has been left out in the movie and the children’s game of enacting the Radley family is also left out. The movie did do its part in including some crucial details like the respect the
of To Kill a Mockingbird were when Jem snuck up on the back porch of Radley’s house and when Scout spotted Mr. Cunningham in the group when Atticus was guarding Tom. The most memorable scenes in the book were the trial and when Jem and Scout talked to Mr. Dolphus Raymond. Mr. Raymond’s words went against society’s beliefs as a whole. I think the film brought more suspense in the scene when Jem was on Radley’s back porch. There was more sense of embarrassment from Mr. Cunningham in the movie when Scout
To Kill A Mockingbird is known as a classic in literature, but this Pulitzer Prize winning novel was turned into an Academy Award winning film. As with most book to film adaptations, there just isn’t enough time to capture every scene in the book, like all books and movies, there will be people who prefer one over the other, I personally like the book better, the novel gives much more insight and detail to the story than a movie could. There are many similarities between the book and the movie
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by, Harper Lee and the movie based on the novel, is one of the most beloved classics. Harper Lee uses memorable characters to explore civil rights and racism in the segregated Southern United States of the 1930s. The novel is told through Scout Finch’s eyes. She learns to respect all races when her father, Atticus Finch, takes on a case of an innocent black man, Tom Robinson, who is being accused of rape. However in the movie, there are many different scenes