Literary Analysis Of To Kill A Mockingbird

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Film/Literary Analysis

It can be said that To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most beloved novels of all time. There is something so powerful about witnessing the discovery of good and evil through the eyes of a young girl. While the novel paints a beautiful first-person perspective of Scout’s experiences, I believe that the film adaptation did an equally beautiful job of allowing us to see through Scout’s eyes. One of the key elements that allow us to gain a better understanding of what Scout is seeing and experiencing is through cinematography.

For this reason, I have chosen to discuss the cinematography in a scene within the film that allows the viewer to share in one of the most intense and vulnerable moments of Jean Louise Finch’s young life. It is the scene where Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout. The scene begins on Halloween night. It parallels almost perfectly with the novel. The school pageant in which Scout played a Ham has come to an end and everyone has left the school auditorium except Jem and Scout. After

The coexistence of good and evil is deeply rooted within the novel, so it is interesting to be able to see how the filmmakers translated that idea onto the screen. An article exploring the symbolic significance of To Kill a Mockingbird states, “The most important theme of To Kill a Mockingbird is the book’s exploration of the moral nature of human beings, that is, whether people are essentially good or essentially evil. The novel approaches this question by dramatizing Scout and Jem’s transition from a perspective of childhood innocence, in which they assumed that people were good, because they had never seen evil, to a more adult perspective, in which they had confronted evil and must incorporate it into their understanding of the world” (Xi and