Compare And Contrast Halloween Night

In my opinion, the short film communicates and delivers a far more interesting and experience than the short story. I enjoyed reading the short story, I have to admit, the story was pretty scary, the mood and tone the author used made me feel like I was reading this on a dark and rainy Halloween night. I think the author did a very good job setting the mood of the story in the first couple lines. The first line states “Overnight it has been raining”, rain usually applies a dull, sad and scary mood. The author chooses the mother and the 5-year-old son as the protagonist of the story, this usually shows that they are powerless, and defenseless. In the last paragraph, “she began to shout, to scream, panicking because she wouldn’t be able to carry her son far”, this shows
For example, the starting car in the very beginning, it looks like they had a car at first, but was it was unable to start, foreshadowing that it is going to be a long deadly walking trip. In the film, they went down the stairs and ended up in an alleyway with a fire in the middle, the camera angle stopped and pointed at the beer bottles right beside the fire for a second and then back to the woman looking at it. In addition, in part of the film it shows a bruise on the woman's face, and that could explain that maybe after looking at the beer bottles, she was reminded of her drunk husband who assaults her. Also, in the story it states that “she was wearing heavy, loosely-laced shoes and was able to give the dog a wild blow in the side”, so she kicked the dog in the story, but instead in the film she sat there on the ground hopelessly craving not to hurt them. This shows that the director of the film was trying to make it more interesting and entertaining for the views adding all these parts making the viewers wanting to think