To Kill A Mocking Bird

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Harper Lee wrote an extraordinary novel, describing life and the way we are as people in society. Her book set an example for all people to learn off of. Lee’s novel that was fist published in 1960, was a huge success. The book was such a revolution it was later made into a movie. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and the movie was accredited with an Academy Award for Gregory Peck as Best Male actor. The novel and the book were equally credited in awards and prizes. I think the book was the better of the two since it had greater detail and more influential characters.
The novel ran a long and detailed version of the town, and the town’s people. The book gives an in depth looks at the town’s people’s views, and their ways.
All the characters play an intricate part of a giant puzzle. This mosaic of people leads the town to be the way they are. In the movie, many of the characters are left out and if they do appear they have very small roles that are not as impacting as in the novel.
The movie leaves out some other very important scenes. One of such is the scene where Scout and Dill leave the courthouse and begin talking to Dolphus Raymond. Scout learns that Mr. Raymond is not what the community makes him out to be He appears to be an alcoholic. He only fakes a drinking problem to elude the community into believing that is the reason for his ways. He now socializes with the black community. He does this to escape the whispers and rumors of the town’s people. In the town he was known for his wedding disaster. His fiancée had committed suicide on their wedding day. He has not come to terms with this yet and cannot handle the stares of the
People of Maycomb. Scout learns that people can over dramatize things.


Another scene change from the movie to the novel occurs in the novels scene were Bob Ewell spits on Atticus. In the novel Atticus is leaving the post office when Bob approaches him and spits ...