A Walk To Remember Compare Amp Contrast
Kenzie Grohs
4th block
6/4/14
English 11B
What’s So Different? Film makers now a days, and even earlier in movie making history, have been turning popular books into successful movies. Now grant it you aren’t able to put every possible sentence and aspect of the book into a movie, but sometimes film makers change a story so much it can sometimes change the whole story itself. In 2002 director Adam Shankman made a movie of the book A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks. Both involve a story of a boy and a girl, almost completely different in their views, which slowly fall in love in Beaufort, North Carolina. Throughout the movie the struggles of the characters are awfully similar to the struggles of the characters in the book, with a few changes here and there. Although the book and movie are similar, there are still differences between the two such as how the two got to know each other, how the characters are portrayed, as well as how certain events occurred and how the characters reacted to them. The first major difference between the novel and the movie of A Walk to Remember is how different the characters are portrayed in each. For example, throughout the novel the leading girl, Jamie Sullivan, was the shy daughter of the towns Pastor. She was one of the kindest girls anyone had met, she would help anyone whether she was asked or not. She had a big part in the town’s orphanage, and she had worshiped God more than anyone had seen. Jamie was an intelligent conservative girl who wore her blonde hair put in a tight bun all the time. She wasn’t known to have many friends, or even do ‘normal’ teenager things, and she usually spent her time at school, at the orphanage, or with her father. In comparison, in the movie, Jamie was quite similar to these qualities; she was smart, very religious, shy, kind, and conservative showed by how she had dressed. However, even though Jamie was kind and seemed to be gentle, in the movie it didn’t portray how religious she actually
4th block
6/4/14
English 11B
What’s So Different? Film makers now a days, and even earlier in movie making history, have been turning popular books into successful movies. Now grant it you aren’t able to put every possible sentence and aspect of the book into a movie, but sometimes film makers change a story so much it can sometimes change the whole story itself. In 2002 director Adam Shankman made a movie of the book A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks. Both involve a story of a boy and a girl, almost completely different in their views, which slowly fall in love in Beaufort, North Carolina. Throughout the movie the struggles of the characters are awfully similar to the struggles of the characters in the book, with a few changes here and there. Although the book and movie are similar, there are still differences between the two such as how the two got to know each other, how the characters are portrayed, as well as how certain events occurred and how the characters reacted to them. The first major difference between the novel and the movie of A Walk to Remember is how different the characters are portrayed in each. For example, throughout the novel the leading girl, Jamie Sullivan, was the shy daughter of the towns Pastor. She was one of the kindest girls anyone had met, she would help anyone whether she was asked or not. She had a big part in the town’s orphanage, and she had worshiped God more than anyone had seen. Jamie was an intelligent conservative girl who wore her blonde hair put in a tight bun all the time. She wasn’t known to have many friends, or even do ‘normal’ teenager things, and she usually spent her time at school, at the orphanage, or with her father. In comparison, in the movie, Jamie was quite similar to these qualities; she was smart, very religious, shy, kind, and conservative showed by how she had dressed. However, even though Jamie was kind and seemed to be gentle, in the movie it didn’t portray how religious she actually