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Divergent Book Vs Movie Analysis
Compare and Contrast Book to movie adaptations are very common to find now of days. Some examples are: Hunger Games, Divergent, Paper Town, ect. All book to movie adaptations have many differences, but also many similarities. One of the popular book to movie adaptation is Divergent by Veronica Roth. As Divergent started to climb to the best sellers list, the possibility for a movie was almost undeniable. Soon enough a movie was announced, and sold out box offices all over the world. There were many similarities, and many differences in this book to movie adaptation. There are many similarities in the book to movie adaptation for this specific movie. One similarity is the choosing ceremony. In the book the ceremony consisted of a lot of specific …show more content…
Take the ending for example, in the movie she had a fight scene with the main bad character in the movie. In the book she didn’t, she ended up having to fight her boyfriend, but not the bad character. In the movie she forced the woman to shut off the bad simulation people were in. In the book she did it herself; this changed the ending in many ways. Another difference from the book to movie adaptation is how the main character Tris got to see her mom in the book. In the book they had a set day they get to see their parents, this day was called visiting day. Tris’s mom came to see her on that day to warn her about some things. In the movie her mom snuck into the headquarters of where Tris was. She still warned her of things, but the way the message was sent was different than the book. One last difference in the movie was close to the end Tris was caught by the bad guys. In the book she was put in a jail cell, and was to be experimented on. The experiment was to see if she reacted to her worst fear the way she did in her fear simulation, or if she completely panicked. In the movie she was captured, but she was brought outside to be shot. This was a big difference from the book and the

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