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In the short story of Benjamin Button, a baby is born into the Button family that has a disease where he ages younger. Benjamin Button is born as an old man and ages backwards at the same rate of everyone else. His family does not really accept him, because of his abnormality. Eventually, when Benjamin is about 50 years old, he meets a girl named Hildegarde Moncrief, who he marries, and they have a son. Benjamin continues to get younger and loses interest in his wife, so he goes to the Spanish-American war. When Benjamin returns, he is about the same age as his son, Roscoe, who gets married and has children. Benjamin ages younger and attends the appropriate school for his age. Soon enough, Benjamin is playing with his grandson and attending kindergarten. Finally, he is a baby and forgets the life he had, and everything just fades away. In the movie of Benjamin Button, a man rushes to help his wife who is dying from hemorrhaging during Benjamin’s …show more content…
Benjamin is born with a disease where he gets younger, instead of aging older. Benjamin is not at first accepted by the family he has, but in the movie he eventually gets accepted by his father. In both versions, he falls in love, gets married, and has a child. He is also a participant in a war in both the story and movie. Finally, in both Benjamin dies as a young infant. There are many differences in each version. In the movie, Benjamin acts like a kid and has the appearance of an old man, but in the story he acts and appears as an old man. The movie has him go on many adventures and eventually getting with his father and getting acceptance from him before his father passes. The story has him with his family, who does not ever truly accept who he is, and see the disease as his fault. In the movie, he has a daughter, and in the story, he has a son. Benjamin’s daughter does not know who he is in, in the movie and in the story Benjamin is known by his son and

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