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    title of this book is The Hobbit written by J.R.R. Tolkien and the director of the movie “The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug” is Peter Jackson. The book and movie are about a hobbit named Bilbo who is called to go on an adventure. In this adventure Bilbo‚ 13 dwarves‚ and a wizard will go kill the dragon who tore apart the dwarves’ city and took all of their treasure long ago. Bilbo is growing as a hero in the movie and the book but there are many differences too‚ the differences in the movie are all changed

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    Frankenstein book was a little long to read and not very interesting to me. The pictures were good to have to somewhat visualize what was going on‚ but otherwise the book was a waste of time to me. I could never really get into it very much making it difficult for me to read it without getting bored of it. We also just finished the movie today with Carrie Fisher which was weird not seeing her shooting a blaster at storm troopers‚ but that is beside the point. It did not follow the book that we read

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    beaten‚ broken body soaked in their urine‚ soaked in their semen‚ soaked in her blood‚ left to die. Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl." “Now - imagine she ’s white!” (Schumacher‚ 1996) In the 1996 release of his film A Time to Kill‚ film director Joel Schumacher submits a formidable adaptation of John Grisham ’s 1989 legal thriller novel of the same name. The film’s plot‚ set in the Deep South (Mississippi) involves the rape of a young black girl and the arrest of white rapists

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    Name: Lidor Hayun 11\21\11 Period 2 The differences between the tragedy of Julius Caesar from the book and the movie. In the story of “the tragedy of Julius Caesar” There are a few differences between the movie and the book. Sometimes throughout the movie they will cut parts of the text because people wouldn’t want to see a movie if it’s too long‚ but sometimes the editors would cut out very important parts of the text‚ which can change the entire story‚ or how we look at a character personalities

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    “A Time to Kill” directed by Joel Schumacher is a legal drama set in rural Mississippi involving the racial tensions within the region during the segregation period released in 1996. This case in the film involves multiple important aspects: race‚ family ties‚ injustice. However‚ these are not what this This is simply a story of two victims: one stripped forcefully through the violent stripping of innocence‚ the other stripped of the fundamental human right of justice‚ driven to provide justice for

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    A Review and Commentary On:A Time to Kill By John GrishamA Time to Kill written by John Grisham is a book that presents the high racial tensions in Canton Mississippi in the early 1990 ’s. The book opens with two young men‚ James Lewis Willard and Billy Ray Cobb‚ joy riding in their brand new yellow pick up truck decked out with Confederate flags. They speed though black neighborhoods throwing full beer bottles at people and houses‚ until they come across ten-year-old Tonya Hailey walking home from

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    In A Time To Kill‚ by John Grisham‚ two drunken white men violently raped‚ beat‚ and nearly killed a 10-year-old black girl named Tonya Hailey. Her father‚ in a clouded rage‚ executed the two rapists with an M-16 on their way out of the courthouse. His vigilante form of justice was not well taken by many in prejudiced Ford County‚ Mississippi. On the other hand‚ he had lots of support from the black community and from any white person whom dared to step into his shoes. A young‚ thirty-something

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    I Am David book/movie comparison Have you ever seen I Am David or read the book? If you have‚ you could probably see a lot of differences between them. The plot is fairly similar‚ but the complications are different. The differences from the movie and the book can just pop out in front of your face‚ almost like its telling you that this is different. To start off‚ the setting of the story (book) I thought it would be some sort of dark pastels because how David’s mood is in the story I thought

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    After reading the novel and watching the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" the novel proved to be a lot better for learning about World War I. The novel is called the best war novel for a reason. Erich Maria Remarque’s novel is so powerful you can almost perfectly picture how living in the war was like and what the trench conditions were like. The novel was better than the movie because in the novel food was very hard to get. But in the movie‚ it seemed as if acquiring food was not hard at all

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    into a movie‚ there will always be missing elements. With “Doubt”‚ its movie adaptation is more of a companion piece. Each medium has their advantages and disadvantages‚ but I think they benefit each other. In the play‚ the reader gets more freedom to come to their own conclusion about Father Flynn‚ whereas in the movie‚ there is a strong influence on his guiltiness. As Shanley is the playwright and also the director‚ he constructs both to be beneficial in their own right. On one hand‚ the movie is a

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