To Kill A Mockingbird: Book vs. Movie

   Today in class, we finished up watching To Kill A Mockingbird. In this blogpost, I will be comparing and contrasting the differences between the two.
   One similarity that I'm glad they included was specific lines from the book. It always makes me happy when the movie adaption of a novel I love includes many of the original lines or dialogue, and TKAM did not disappoint. There are some iconic pieces of dialogue that had to be included for this movie to even call itself an adaption.
   One minor difference that I did not like, however, was the omission of the line "Boo's children needed him." I reacted very emotionally to this, and I feel that even this slight change would've contributted a lot.
   Another thing that I missed from the novel was the crushing of Scout's ham costume, as well as the knife mark found puncturing it. Scout coming home in the costume that was "crushed to a pulp" helped portray how much harm Bob Ewell had tried to cause; and the fact that Heck Tate found the cut in it showed how close Ewell was to actually killing her. I believe this detail made the situation a lot more serious and frighting, and I was sad to see that it did not make the cut.
   One change that I did like was that the setting was different when Ewell spat in Atticus' face. Originally, Scout said that she heard about Ewell disrespecting Atticus in this way, but wasn't there.