To+Kill+a+Mockingbird

In this novel, //To Kill a Mockingbird//, there is a mixture of dynamic and static characters. A dynamic character is someone who changes internally throughout the novel and a static character is someone who just stays the same throughout the novel. In //To Kill a Mockingbird//, there are a few dynamic characters and many static characters. The dynamic characters would be Jem, Jeremy Atticus Finch, and Scout, Jean Louise Finch. Characters in a novel usually change because without this change, the lessons that the author may be trying to teach may not get through to the audience. The movie, which is based on this novel, did cut out a few important events that helped change the dynamic characters, although you were still able to see the changes in the characters without these events. The important events that changed Jem would be when Mrs. Dubose, their neighbor who was addicted to morphine, died after he had been reading to her for over a month. When Atticus had shot the mad dog with only one shot had changed the way Jem thought his father. At that moment, Jem realized that his father was not just a lawyer but a brave, heroic man. The trial of Tom Robinson, the black man who was falsely accused of rape mostly because of his racial background by a local lady and her abusive and cynical father, also had an effect on Jem’s change. Atticus, Jem and Scout's father, is Tom Robinson's lawyer. The way the judge and the jury of this case treated this man, as well as most of the people in Maycomb County, astonished Jem on such a level that he could not stop thinking of how unjust everything was in their town. All of these events had effected Scouts’ change as well, but there were a few more than Jem that were the key to her change. For one, Christmas at Finch’s Landing, the family farm, with Scout’s Aunt Alexandra and Uncle Jack. With them, there was Aunt Alexandra’s husband and Jem and Scout’s cousin, Francis. While playing outside, Francis makes a rude comment about Atticus and how he is defending the black man, Tom Robinson, in his case. This makes Scout very angry and she then hits Francis with all of her strength. This gets her a spanking from her Uncle Jack without him even listening to her side of the story and what really happened opposed to what Francis had told them. Another event would be when Aunt Alexandra comes to stay with the Finch family to make sure that Scout becomes a lady and to do so she needs a lady like figure in her life.  Dynamic characters are characters that change on the inside throughout each event that they are a part of in a novel or in a movie. In the movie, //To Kill a Mockingbird//, the filmmakers skipped some events that were in the book that changed Jem and Scout such as the death of Mrs. Dubose and for Scout, spending the Christmas holiday at Finch’s Landing. Many events that changed these characters were in the movie, but these ones were very different from the book and were not in the same order as they were in the book.