TKAM, again.

The trial in the movie was very different from the book, but I think it was easier to understand the one from the movie. In the movie, you can see how nervous Mayella is when she is testifying. You can also see how Mr. Ewell is sort of disgusted by Mayella when Tom Robinson is testifying. I think that Mayella is so nervous whilst testifying because she knows that she's lying and that an innocent man will most likely be killed because of her embarassment. When the verdict was given at the end of the trial scene, Tom was crushed. I think that because Atticus was his lawyer, he actually believed that he might have won. Although he should hav ewon, I wasn't shocked that he didn't. That's because he is a black man and Mayella is a white female, eventhough she is in the Ewell family(the lowest white family in Maycomb) she is still a white woman.

To Kill A Mockingbird, The Movie.

The movie and the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, are quite different. The book says that Scout was the one to find all the stuff in the knot in the tree, but the movie shows Jem finding all of it. I think that when Atticus shoots the mad dog, he doesn't want to. I think that he doesn't want to show his kids that he is good at shooting because they don't have guns, and he doesn't want them to have guns. When Scout starts talking to Mr. Cunningham in front of the jail, she doesn't know what she's doing, and she feels bad because she thinks that she hurt his feeling. Scout thinks that she hurt his feelings becuase he looked upset. I think that he was upset because he didn't have the courage to kill Tom Robinson anymore. When Scout jumps in front of Atticus, it's kind of like she is saving a mockingbird from being killed. I think that because at the end of the book, when Tom actually gets killed, Mr. Underwood refers to his murder/death as "the senseless slaughter of a songbird" which is basically saying that Tom is a mockingbird.