To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee is a very elaborate book which centers mainly around the development of the main character, Scout, and her family who live in the south during the great depression. Much of the development of these characters is drawn from the trial of a black man, named Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping a white woman. With their father acting as the defense attorney in this highly controversial case, Scout and her brother Jem are faced with many hardships. When the story was put to film however, it lost many key characters, events, and concepts. It is almost as though the book and the film tell two different stories, as one is about Scout, Jem, and Atticus, their father, while the other focuses more on the trial of Tom Robinson. To illustrate this point, these characters, events, and concepts will be contrasted...