To Kill A Mockingbird
“One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.” (page 279). This line, along with many others, expresses one of the many deep lessons this novel portrays. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, “takes readers to the roots of human behavior-to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos.” (back of the book). Not only does the book provide all this, but the movie shares all this as well. It is basically the same as the book, but it puts a visual sense to the novel. Though you would thing it would be realistic that both the book and the movie would be similar, it is very much different. The three most important differences between the movie and the book include: the scene in which Atticus lets Jem and Scout go to the Robinson house where Jew sees a drunken Bob Ewell, when Ms. Dubose gives Jem a price to pay by him reading to her, and the church scene with Calpurnia. “…Atticus was leaving the post office when Mr. Ewell approached him, cursed him, spat on him, and threatened to kill him…Mr. Ewell called him names wild horses couldn’t bring her to repeat…Mr. Ewell was a veteran of an obscure war.” (page 217). And Mr. Robert Ewell, this man, would be the one that accused Tom Robinson of raping his daughter, Mayella. Mr. Ewell was attracted to tobacco as a bee is to honey. One of the important scenes which was failed to be put in the novel was when Scout and Jem m Robinson’s house.