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    passed down and most likely altered due to lack of recorded events. Now there are town main recorded stories of Grendel used today and Grendel is portrayed a bit different in both stories. Grendel in the novel Grendel and Grendel in the short story Beowulf are two very different characters‚ the way they are portrayed and the amount of insight we get is vastly distant. Grendel in the novel was a very complex character‚ his characteristics were more pensive‚ he philosophize a lot about himself and what

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    Books and movies can be very similar but different at the same time. The contrast between the story of “A Rose for Emily “from the movie and the book is quite the difference. In the story “A Rose for Emily”‚ by: William Faulkner‚ there’s many differences between the movie and book that make both very unique. One way the book was different from the movie is how in the book it states‚ “One of us lifted something from it‚ and leaning forward‚ that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils

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    author that wrote this book has written over twenty other books. The author has a lot of experience on writing books. The author is Jeanne DuPrau and the book is The City Of Ember. The city is an underground city that is trying to keep the human race alive. The main characters in the book The City of Ember have many similarities and differences between the movie and book. The book and movie are similar because there are some parts that are in both the movie‚ and the book and it makes it more fun

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    “ The Hunger Games” How often do you see teenagers reading a book for pleasure these days? Sadly‚ this is a dying art. It is essential to encourage today’s adolescents to read. When a book is made into a movie‚ people often argue that the written version is no longer necessary. Although the movie version is fun to watch‚ reading the actual novel is much more stimulating. Such is the case with Suzanne Collin’s novel‚ The Hunger Games. This novel is about the nation of

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    Grendel in the novel compared to Grendel in the epic poem Beowulf is presented as the complete opposite or more evolved due to the point of view in both the novel and epic poem‚ descriptions of events he has encountered in the novel and his reactions to them‚ and how Grendel in the epic poem is described as ruthless towards mankind. The epic poem Beowulf is told from a third person point of view while Grendel the novel is told from Grendel’s very own perspective. Both stories due to the different

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    In the book Freak the Mighty‚ it was written by Rodman Philbrick. In the movie The Mighty‚ it was directed by Peter Chelsom. They both have the same characters with the same problem‚ same story plot‚ same everything. In the book it said how they met in the summer when Freak just moved in and he was having troubles with getting his robot bird‚ so Max helped him. In the movie they officially met during school time when Freak ended up being his tutor. Some of the most important similarities is that

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    The movie‚ “Fahrenheit 451‚” was different from the book of Fahrenheit 451‚ was one difference in the move was that Montag went out with Clarisse on his sick day so he could devise a plan‚ but in the book he stayed home and devised his plan‚ and also there was no Mechanical Hound or Professor Faber and Granger in the movie. Based on the book‚ Professor Faber and Granger were major characters because they emphasized the themes‚ “three things are missing‚” and the “phoenix.” The missing components

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    containing a Christian allegory. The movie falters in those moments where it robs the story of its purity and truth. As a child reading the story‚ or having it read to you‚ you are taken from an ordinary world into an extraordinary one. As Lewis wrote in his essay “On Three Ways of Writing for Children” the reader of a story like TLWW “does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.” I felt like the movie struggled to make the characters

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    In this paper‚ I am going to be comparing and contrasting the movie version and the novel entitled “The Accidental Tourist.” First‚ when one begins to read the book‚ they will notice that the opening scene takes place in a car on a rainy day. During this pivotal scene Sarah Leary asks Macon if he remembered what he said to a comment Sarah had said. She said “’I said to you the other day‚ I said‚ ‘Macon‚ now that Ethan’s dead I sometimes wonder if there’s any point to life.’ Do you remember what

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    The book and the movie of The Devil’s Arithmetic had many similarities and differences. The movie had Rivka as Chaya’s cousin while the book did not. In both of them Hannah does not want to go to the Seder. The book and the movie showed how much you should value what you have and how you live your life. The Devil’s Arithmetic was written by Jane Yolen. The story starts off as a girl named Hannah was complaining to her mother about not wanting to go to the Seder. She is named after her Aunt Eva’s

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