TKAM Comparison Blog 1/21/16

Prompt - 

1.  What do you think is the most important difference between the written and filmed version? Provide evidence with specific details.

2. How would you prove or disprove that one version of To Kill A Mockingbird is more affective in delivering its message than the other? Be sure to provide specific pieces of evidence to support your opinion.

     I think that one of the most important differences between the written and filmed version of To Kill A Mockingbird is a scene that was missing. This was a very small scene; when Calpurnia took the kids to her church and then ran into Lula. Lula didn't want the kids there because they were white. The reason I thought that this was an important scene was because it shows how even though many of the black people in the community had respect for the Finches, (since their dad is defending an African American man) not all people had respect or were nice to the children.
     A scene where they showed respect for the Finches was when they all stood up when Atticus left the courtroom. Although, in the movie; this (church scene) part was left out, so it doesn't seem as they have much respect for the Finches (when looked at comparing how they were treated in the church).

     I would prove that one version of To Kill A Mockingbird is more effective (the written version) in delivering its message than the other because the book simply had much more detail and dialogue than the movie. This is because the book can be really long, but for the movie to be as descriptive, it would take a very long time to finish it. There is a lot of key details, narrations, and even characters that are in the written version that aren't in the film. 

     One example of some missing/switched characters is Stephanie Crawford being Dill's aunt instead of Aunt Rachel, and it was Cecil; not Francis that made Scout break her promise with Atticus about fighting. Then, Aunt Alexandra is not mentioned at all, which makes it really different from the book. Some few things that were missing or different as well were: in the book, it was just explicitly stated that Atticus took Tom's case; while in the movie, they made a scene out of it, probably to be more explanatory to the people who didn't read the book. There was also a part when in the novel, Calpurnia is older and has a son named Zeebo, and it the movie she is a lot younger. There was much more scenes that were different; however, movies can achieve things that a book can not, and vice versa.