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To Kill A Mockingbird: Comparing The Book And The Movie
In the story there’s a lot less detail than in the movie version. Right off of the bat I notice that Billy meets a man on the train that is taking him to Bath and the man he meets is in the same branch as him. In the story it don’t say the reason that the landlady opens the door so fast but in the movie she was looking through the door hole and that’s why she opened the door so fast. In the movie he waits a while before he came in but in the story it said that he came in fast after she opened the door. Also in the movie while he is in his room on the fourth floor he is writing a letter and in the story it doesn’t say he does anything in his room. Another big thing I noticed is that in the story it says that the curtains are green but in the

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