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    In the birds the book and movie are really different. To me i really preferred the movie over the book but the both seemed pretty pointless and pretty stupid because like in the movie the characters have different names. In the movie there was also a lot of really bad actors. Whereas in the book you didn’t have to worry about bad actors you just would read. In the movie in the beginning the girl started off in a bird shop pretending to work there and so when a man walked in pretending to buy some

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    ever read a book series and then watched the movie and noticed the plot was completely different? “Watsons Go To Birmingham” is about a colored family taking a trip to Birmingham Alabama and realizing how much different they are treated than their home in Flint Michigan. The plot in the movie is mainly focused on the Civil Rights Movement. Lots of events changed between the movie and book‚ in the book it was more of seeing how the family lives and the people they live with. But in the movie it was mainly

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    since I read this book. A movie‚ a death‚ a church and friendship‚ "The Outsiders" has it all. A story of brotherhood‚ friendship‚ and of a murder‚ a boy and his friend are caught in a murder‚ they have to escape form getting caught by the police‚ and so they run away‚ starting their journey of friendship and hardships. After reading the novel and watching the movie I noticed some differences‚ I’ll start with Ponyboy‚ in the novel pony boy is slapped by his brother‚ but in the movie‚ he is pushed‚

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    Beowulf is about this strong hero who is summoned to defeat the main evil being known as grendel who has been terrorizing these people and their king for many many years. This piece of literature is by far one of the oldest and over the years there has been a lot of information that has been tossed around‚ forgotten or changed because the storyteller didn’t like it. Now over the many years the story has been passed there are many different ways to interpret what is said. Since Beowulf can be interpreted

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    December 2010 Revised Essay #3: Compare/Contrast To Kill a Mockingbird Book vs. Movie To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ is a story about Jem and Scout Finch‚ who are being raised by their father in Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ during the Great Depression. The book shows us that Jem and Scout’s childhood was rich with life experiences. In contrast‚ the movie version‚ by Robert Mulligan‚ excludes many important life experiences. Several events in the book are excluded from the movie‚ but should be included

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    plethora of differences in the movie and the book version of Beowulf‚ however‚ the version of the movie is more understanding. The movie gives me a more detailed version of Beowulf. Whereas‚ the book gives a more difficult version description of the story. The movie is a better descriptive than the book. The version of the book only gives you an illustration of the characters for two or three lines. There are many differences in the movie and book‚ from Beowulf that makes Beowulf fascinating and captivating

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    This poem is called Beowulf. Beowulf is an old Anglo Saxon poem that got told throughout many years by scops and would be accompanied by a lyre. It was very famous and would be told often at different places where there were a lot of people. This poem is one of the first to be told in the old-english language. However after various years of being told it finally got written down. But recently‚ there have been various movies that have been produced that tell the poem of Beowulf‚ the warrior who fought

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    LOP Compare and Contrast Essay Introduction: Was Life of Pi a true story of a boy stuck out in sea for 7 months with a Bengal tiger‚ or all a lie that constantly toyed with our brains? This was a question that always kept readers of the book and viewers of the movie perplexed about which story was the accurate one and is what made it such a success. In the movie‚ Ang Lee directs the story with his own take on a vast variety of visual details. The book however has many contrasting ideas and themes

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    Most often when a book or a poem gets made into a movie‚ there are many similarities and differences amongst the two. This was no exception for the epic poem Beowulf‚ translated by Seamus Heaney‚ and the 2007 animated motion picture “Beowulf.” It became evident rather early on in the film that the directors had interpreted the poem far differently than what it was made out to be when it was originally written. In the opening scene‚ King Hrothgar is illustrated as fat and slobbishly; almost like a

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    Two valiant heroes each looked up to by their cultures with strength beyond measure and tremendous power. The two predominant characters in this essay are thesues; a great hero to Athens and Beowulf; the renowned hero who fights the troll like monster Grendel. His mother Aethra raised Theseus. Indoctrinated that his father was the eminent Poseidon the god of the sea. When Theseus turned the age of 16 his mother explained to Theseus he was the child of Aegeus the king of Athens. Aethra instructed

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