Despereaux Comparison
The Tale of Despereaux Comparison The Tale of Despereaux is a book about a smaller than average mouse who’s different from the other mice. In 2008, this children’s book was turned into an animated children’s film. Despite bearing some minor similarities, the differences between the book and the movie are substantial. Despereaux, the main character, is extremely small, even for a mouse. In the book he is considered frail, timid, and fearful. Despereaux even passes out a couple times because he gets so scared, unlike the movie, in which he acts brave and heroic. Despereaux jumps over a mousetrap at the beginning of the movie. This changes his character development completely.
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In the book Roscuro, is a rat that was born and lives in the dungeon, but like Despereaux, he is different than the other rats. Roscuro liked the light, instead of the dark, like all of the other rats. Roscuro loved the light so much he would crawl from the dungeon, and go to see even the tiniest shimmer given off from above, until one day something terrible happened; Roscuro decided to go upstairs to see it, which no rat dared do. During this quest, he fell into the queen’s soup, and the initial shock was so much for her that it killed her. Princess Pea, from that day on, despised rats, and Roscuro hated Princess Pea because of the way she treated him. This day caused King Phillip to outlaw soup, and ordered all rats be killed. In the movie this happens too, but differently. The movie starts out with this scene, but instead of Roscuro coming up from the dungeon originally, he comes from an overseas ship. Additionally, the thing that attracts him is the smell of the soup being made by this magic vegetable man, who is not in the book, not the beauty of light. Roscuro then continues to fall in the soup, and kills the queen, outlawing soup and rats. When being chased out by the guards, Roscuro falls into the dungeon. He tries to find a way back to the ship, but it’s too late, all he sees is the ship leaving without him. Roscuro is then forced to live in the dungeon where he discovers the other
In the book Roscuro, is a rat that was born and lives in the dungeon, but like Despereaux, he is different than the other rats. Roscuro liked the light, instead of the dark, like all of the other rats. Roscuro loved the light so much he would crawl from the dungeon, and go to see even the tiniest shimmer given off from above, until one day something terrible happened; Roscuro decided to go upstairs to see it, which no rat dared do. During this quest, he fell into the queen’s soup, and the initial shock was so much for her that it killed her. Princess Pea, from that day on, despised rats, and Roscuro hated Princess Pea because of the way she treated him. This day caused King Phillip to outlaw soup, and ordered all rats be killed. In the movie this happens too, but differently. The movie starts out with this scene, but instead of Roscuro coming up from the dungeon originally, he comes from an overseas ship. Additionally, the thing that attracts him is the smell of the soup being made by this magic vegetable man, who is not in the book, not the beauty of light. Roscuro then continues to fall in the soup, and kills the queen, outlawing soup and rats. When being chased out by the guards, Roscuro falls into the dungeon. He tries to find a way back to the ship, but it’s too late, all he sees is the ship leaving without him. Roscuro is then forced to live in the dungeon where he discovers the other