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Compare And Contrast The Westing Game Book Vs Movie
Both The Westing Game book and movie are full of mysteries. Here at G.L.M.S 6th grade students are trying to solve the mystery. Whoever figures out the mystery gets a pile of money to spend at their will. The Westing Game is centered around a 13 year old girl name Turtle Wexler [T.R Wexler]. Turtle makes a bet with Doug and Otis and turles finds Sam Westing dead. This leads to the start of The Westing Game . The Westing Game takes of to figure out the “Murderer”. Turtle uses the clues to figure out the song to figure out that crow is the answer to the puzzle, but not the game in the movie. Normally movies and book have nothing in common, but not these parts in the movie. Turtle was in both the book and movie . They did this

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