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The Film

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)

  • Produced in 1962
  • Directed by Robert Mulligan
  • Written by Horton Foote
  • Gregory Peck starred as Atticus Finch
  • Mary Badham as Scout/ Jean Louise
  • Film as a whole won many awards

Scout's Fights with the people of Maycomb

Cal and Aunt Alexandra

  • Cecil Jacobs: Ch. 9 page 85 "'You take that back, boy!' this order, given by me to Cecil Jacobs, was the beginning of a thin time for Jem and me...He had announced in the schoolyard that day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers."
  • Each one of these people inadvertently help Scout rise above their thoughts of her family and take the higher ground
  • In the film, Cecil Jacobs is the only character to pick on Scout because of her father
  • Although Cecil's teasing was still in the movie it isn't as effective in helping Scouts grow thicker skin as all three

Scout learns to grow thick skin from bearing with the people who picked on Jem and her because of Atticus's work

  • Some of these major quarrels were with Ms. Dubose, Francis, and Cecil Jacobs
  • Ms.Dubose: Ch. 11 page 117 "But Ms. Dubose held us: 'Not only a Finch waiting on table but one in the courthouse lawing for nigger!'"
  • Francis: Ch. 9 page 94-95 "'Just what I said. Grandma says its bad enough he lets you all un wild, but now he's turned out to be a nigger-lover we'll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb again. He's ruining the family, that's what he's doin'.'"

"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.

  • "Calpurnia was something else again...She was always ordering me out of the kitchen , asking me why I couldn't behave as well as Jem" (Ch. 1 page 6)
  • "'Jem's growing up now and you are too,' she said to me. 'We decided that it would be best for you to have some feminine influence.'" (Ch. 13 page 145)
  • In the film, Cal is a much less influential and strict character than in the book
  • Scout's aunt was completely taken out of the movie making Scout's pressure to become a lady a much less important problem

Evidence

Scout Still Does Mature

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

Thesis

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The Novel

To Kill A Mockingbird Analysis Presentation

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.

  • Focuses on Scout's, the narrator's, coming of age as well as life in Maycomb in the span of three years while her father, Atticus Finch, works to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman

"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.

  • Written by Harper Lee
  • Published on July 11, 1960
  • Won the Pulitzer Prize
  • Considered an American classic

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

http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=DKOCVC074517289&v=2.1&u=tel_k_cmsmb&it=r&p=&sw=w&asid=d54ce3586e4a806d4fa3eccdf353da48

Caroline Ver Mulm

6th Period

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