In the beginning, we miss many of the school experiences
that Scout encounters in the book. We never really meet Miss Caroline or see her
struggle to educate the 1st grade. Therefore, the issue with the cootie and Burris'
Ewell never gets addressed in the beginning. We do get to see
Walter Cunningham go to Scout's for lunch. The Christmas scene at Finch's landing gets
skipped. Miss Stephanie Crawford plays the role of both herself and Miss Rachel
Haverford, thus the Dill character calls her Aunt
Stephanie.
Much of the description of the Finch background
and narration from Scout about their lives and times gets over-looked. The scene with
her describing the waste that school became, many moments with Dill, and the talks about
gentle-breeding get skipped.
I think if something felt like
it was not a part of the Boo Radley storyline or the trial storyline, it got skipped.
Most of these instances were the Finch family shadings. These are likely some of the
most important parts that Lee intended to point out in her book because it is from these
perspectives that we watch a child mature and grow in to a moral and humane adult
writer.
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