Book/Movie Comparison

Differences 

§      The book quickly summarizes Aibileen's relationship with Miss Leefolt and Mae Mobley. However, the movie starts out with the first time Miss Skeeter ever came to Aibileen's house to work on the book.

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§  After the introduction at Aibileen's house, we see Miss Hilly drawing pencil marks on the toilet paper. This is so she knows if Minny is using the inside toilet or the outside one like she's supposed to. This doesn't happen in the book though. Only in the Movie

In the book, skeeter is big and tall, but in the movie, she has an average height.  

Movie

  Constantine’s daughter in the movie is black, but in the book, it says she may have a white daughter or even no daughter at all. 

Movie

         The maid Minny who works for Celia Foote miscarries her 4th child. In the novel, Minny doesn’t know Celia was ever pregnant, so the miscarriage is a complete shock. However,  in the movie, Celia tells Minny she’s pregnant when she hires her, undeniably stealing away from that surprise at the end.

Movie

Minny and Miss Celia find a naked man in the backyard, and they have to beat him with a shovel because he won't leave.  This event only happens in the book. 

Minny catches Miss Celia drinking what she thinks is alcohol and believes that Miss Celia's an addict because of all the bottles, but it's actually catch tonic to help her with the babies.This event only happens in the book. 

Book VS Movie

We can find several differences between the book and the movie. When reading the book we can realize that Kathryn Stockett plasm out so deep characteristics of each character and describes in detail the life that the maids have and we can almost live the experiences related in the book only imagining with every detail of the book, on the other hand, many of these feelings have been excluded from the movie making them not important in some scenes of the lives of some characters. One of the most marked differences in the characters is the aspect of Skeeter. In the book she is described as a girl of an aspect not so nice for the girls of his social group, high and curly hair; while in the film we can see a girl who is not taller than anyone, this does not make her different from those of her social group at all and she is very beautiful and friendly.