Prompt: 1.) What do you think is the most impotant difference between the written and filmed version? Provide evidence with specific details.
2.) How would you prove or disprove that one version of To Kill A Mockingbird is more affective in delivering its meassage than the other? Be sure to provide specific pieces of evidence to support your opinion.
I think the most important difference in the written version and filmed version of To Kill A Mockingbird is that Dill and Scout don't meet Dolphus Raymond. I think this is important because Dolphus Raymond really exposes the true Maycomb. He exposes the true heart of Maycomb. In the book he tells Dill and Scout that he tells him his secret. His secret is pretending to be drunk while being nice to black people. He does this because he says that its easier for people to understand something when they have a reason. This was crucial because this relates to the everybody that has ever lived. Many people do not understand somebody's motive without a reason for their motive and that was crucial in a the book.
I would say that the book was more effective in delivering its message because there were more occasions where the characters displayed more acts of empathy such as where Uncle Jack shows empathy after hitting Scout. He talks to her and he realizes that what he did was wrong and he finally put himself in Scouts shoes. He did this when he told her that he should've of listened to her side of the story too. This is one way that empathy is better conveyed in the book.
Another way that empathy is better shown in the book is when Scout says, "I think there is just one type of folks. Folks." This shows that Scout is starting to better understand the world and put herself in other people shoes. This does not happen in the movie. This shows that there are more acts of empathy in the book than there in the movie. 
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