Upon searching for the similarities between the 1954 novel and the 1963 film the similarities strike more significant than the differences and they are very important to the plot of the movie. The major elements of the plot remain in the movie. For example, all the elements that are important to the understanding of the story are not left out. This is important because the book and the movie both have the same storyline throughout and so both versions give the person the same knowledge of the major …show more content…
For example, the deaths in the book are demonstrated slightly different from the movie’s way of showing them. When Simon dies in the book, he falls down the hill and the boys charge at him and kill him. As opposed to the movie, Simon doesn’t fall before, the boys still charge at him though. This is unimportant to the storyline because it doesn’t change the story in an way and it still keeps the fact that Simon dies and how he is killed is still there. It is just missing a small detail. Finally, the movie is missing some minor plot points. For example, when the fire goes out, Ralph sees a ship or a plane going by. He realized then that they could’ve gotten rescued. In the book it was a ship that went by but in the movie it was a plane. It has no importance since it also doesn’t change the plot but it still implies that there were ways of being rescued. To conclude, yes the book and the movie have their differences but they don’t affect the major just of the