To Kill a Mockingbird Comparative Analysis

        In the book To Kill a Mockingbird Aunt Alexandra played a big part in it. In the movie however, she was never introduced or talked about at all. The reason why I think this is the most important difference because Aunt Alexandra was the female influence Scout "needed". A lot of the decisions that the kids made that Aunt Alexandra led to doing never ended up happening. For example, Scout never learned about the history of Maycomb and her family's history. In the book Aunt Alexandra talked about how much different it was then compared to now. This guided Scout throughout the book to be a better and more mature person. In the movie Scout never clearly developed this trait but it would've been better if they had that influence on her.

        Another detail that was left out in the movie that was in the book was most of the interactions with Boo Radley. Like when Scout, Jem and Dill went outside to play and ended up at the Radley house was not in the book at all which shows interaction but the book didn't. Also in the book Jem lost his pants when escaping the Radley house. However, Jem grabbed his pants for himself. In the book Jem just left his pants there and coincidentally it came back to him tied to the fence. The last interaction that occurred in the movie and not in the book was when Boo killed Bob. After he killed Bob in the book he went into his house and never came back. In the movie Boo was inside the Finch's house hiding after he helped out Jem and Scout. The only interaction that happened in both was when Boo pet Jem.

        The purpose for having different versions of a story is to have different points of view and to look at it another way. What I mean by this is that the different will change the view point and make you think more. If you think more about what you are doing you will develop a better understanding. Even if the versions are different there will most likely be a similarity that you can look at and think questions in your head. For instance, if you look at the movie TKAM and then the book they are different but have similarities but which one is better? That is the thing that I thought about the whole time I was watching the movie. I also think it depends on which one you look at first. If you read the book first you will think the movie was not as good as the book because of the left out details. Then vise versa if you watched the movie first.