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Speckled Band Book Vs Movie
The story, and movie “The Speckled Band” have many similarities. Julia’s room in both the story, and movie was the same. In the movie it looked exactly like what was described in the book. Also when Julia’s hair started to whiten. In the movie you could see when she was just about to die her hair did start to turn a grayish-white, and in the book it said that her hair was starting to turn white too. Also when Dr.Roylott came into Sherlock’s office Sherlock was calm. In the movie Sherlock was very calm compared to Dr.Roylott he was talking in a way lower and calmer tone than Dr.Roylott, and in the book he didn’t shout or anything he was very calm.

In the movie and story there are a couple of differences. The movie and story started differently.

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