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The film follows the Finch family in a two year span, and it contains many of the major events including the trial of Tom Robinson and the main ideas such as the children's fascination with Boo Radley. At the same time, the movie also leaves out many events and characters that seemed minor but were, in fact, vital to many of the motifs of the novel.
"As several commentators have noted, the film seems centered on the racial issue much more than on other, equally successful dimensions of the novel." (Shackelford, 1996)
Scout learns to grow thick skin from bearing with the people who picked on Jem and her because of Atticus's work
"As Scout becomes old enough to enter school, she despises the thought of wearing a dress. When she appears from her room to eat breakfast before attending school for the first time, Jem ridicules her while Atticus, Miss Maudie, and Calpurnia admire her." (Shackelford, 1996)
Up until this scene, the fact that Scout does not like wearing dresses and being ladylike is not emphasized as it is in the book. This further emphasizes that the movie is weak in expressing Scouts resistance in becoming a polite, southern lady.
These two woman played a large role in attempting to shape Scout in a mannered, young lady.
Evidence
Scout's coming of age experiences are not completely lost in the film
She learns in both the book and the movie that "'you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--'...'until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.'" (Ch. 3 page 33)
This is especially true with Boo Radley. Scout realizes that he is kind in his heart but just a bit different
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Scout matures and grows throughout the book because of the people around her especially Cal and Aunt Alexandra who push her to become more of a lady along with those who picked on the Finch children because of Atticus like Ms. Dubose, Cecil Jacobs, and Francis, Scout's cousin.
"The novel is very much about the experience of growing up as a female in a South with very narrow definitions of gender roles and acceptable behavior." (Shackelford, 1996)
Between Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird and the film directed by Robert Mulligan, Scout's coming of age experiences are much more prevalent in the book while they are almost lost in the film because of some details'/characters' presence or lack of it.
Sources
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1960.
To Kill a Mockingbird. Dir. Robert Mulligan. 1962.
Shackelford, Dean. "The Female Voice in to Kill a Mockingbird: Narrative Strategies in Film and Novel." Mississippi Quarterly 50.1 (Winter 1996): 101-113. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 194. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Contemporary Literary Criticism Online. Web. 30 Nov. 2015.
URL
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