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When someone has to compare and contrast a book to a musical, it wil become a dificult task. In this essay, I will be comparing and contrasting a story from Tom Saywer by mark twain inwhich tom tricks the neibor boys into doing work for him. As person who likes lititure, i enjoyed the story much more than the musical. As a background, like i said before, the book was writen by mark twain, and the play was writen by tom boyed. I am now going to compare and contrast the musical and the story's plot, setting, props, and characterization. It can be easy to desctibe the setting in a book, or story, but on the ther hand, creating an authentic setting in a mucial play can be very chalenging. One example that supports this is the fence. In the story, the fence inwhich tom is required to paint is 9 feet tall, and 30 yards high, but in the mucical, the fence is only 4 feet other than 9 feet, the producers of the play most likely made this change due to lack of materials, and space in the room.
Yet another expample of the difference in setting is the home inwhich tom apperas to live in, In the musical, the home is very small, and has a key roll in the entire sene.
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If you see something, you dont imagine what it would look like becaue it is right infront of you, in a play, they have to make props seem real becaue your imagineation dosn't do much. Evidence of this change in props is evicendent due to the apple, and the paint brushed. In both story adn the play, an apple in involved, but in the story, the core to an apple is offered in extange for being able to paint the fence, while in the play, an entire apple is offered. Simerally, in the story, there is one paint brush that each of the kids take turns using to paint the board fance, but due to time reztrictions, there are many brushed used in the play, so all of the actios who help tom paint the fence, are working so no time is

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