Movie And The Book example essay topic

Neither the novel nor film version of To Kill A Mockingbird is superior to the other, just different. In the book you delve more into the separate characters while in the film you see the relationships in action. The book gives you a broader view of everything, but at the same time the movie points out everything that seems important. Lastly, the novel shows Scout as a girl caught in the middle, when the movie seems to paint Scout as a girl without a inkling of what is going on. The book shows the separate characters. In the novel you see The whole character by what they say.

Cal can be described as a teacher to the children. She shows them the way that others live when she takes them to her church in chapter twelve. She also remarks that. ".. Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp " ny... ". (p. 24) this says that everyone is important no matter who they are. The statement "I know all that, Scout.

It was the way he said it made me sick, plain sick". (p. 199) shows how much Dill really understands of what is going on. Jem is basically the same person in both the movie and the book. He seems to be the distant, yet loving, brother. Although the book shows the individual people, the movie shows the relationships in action more than the book. The movie shows Cal and the children in action. It shows how they act around each other, the looks and the tones of voices that are being used, that can change the whole meaning of different phrases.

Like when the children find the rabid dog, and the looks that are passed between the children and Cal are not in the book, only the words and actions. The relationship between the Finch children and Dill is shown in many different ways. The way that they talk to one another. Like how they stress the words in a sentence, or act around each other. Along with the movie showing the relationships more, the book gives you a broader view of everything. In the book, the black community is shown more, through the church, and the descriptions given by cal and Atticus.

Cal explains "Can't but about four folks in First Purchase read... I'm one of 'em" (p. 124) this shows the difference between the values of the white and black community. Since the black people would only be hired for field work, and hard labor, schools would be a waste of time. While the white people would be expected to learn as much as they could, and go on to a better station in life, depending on there ancestors. Atticus also explains the country folk in May comb to the children.

".. The Cunningham's are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them the hardest". He says this to explain the difference between the way that the Finches are poor, and the way that the farmers are poor. At the same time that the book shows the broader picture, the movie is centered around the trial, not the town itself. In the movie, the trial is ever present and going on, while the book starts before the trial. The book is about the children, will they be racist and like the town, or will they be fair and like Atticus.

On the other hand the movie is more a fight for the town, will the town be racist and convict Tom, or will they see that he was not to blame, but Bob Ewell. The children, including Dill are more focused on the trial than Boo. In the movie, they go to the court house to see the jury be picked, but they don't try to give Boo a note. Also, the gifts given to the children by Boo are not as important in the movie as in the book. While the movie shows the relationships in the book, Scout is more of a girl caught in the middle of Atticus and Alexandria. She acts like Alexandria although she does not know it.

The comment "He ain't company, Cal, he's just a Cunningham-" shows how Scout sees the different people in her town. During the book, she experiences a transformation, form Alexandria to Atticus. When Scout and Atticus are talking on the porch, and Scout says "Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?" to me, this shows that Scout finally understands that all people are the same, and deserve the best for themselves. In contrast to Scout as a main character in the book, in the movie Scout doesn't understand what's going on. It is through her eyes that the director uses to set the stage, but it is only her eyes through that we see not through her heart nor her mind. All of the scenes that shows Scout as anything more than a narrator were cut from the movie.

Both the book and the movie of To Kill A Mockingbird were completely different, although neither one was worse. On the cover of the book it states "The timeless classic of growing up and the human dignity that unites us all" this is the book, about two children trying to make to adulthood and become good people. Yet this is not the movie, the movie is the story of the wrongful trial and condemning of a black man in the south. Both were beautifully done, but neither were the same.