Shaun Swersky 11/6/12 Language Arts "Beowulf" Book Vs Movie A long time ago a legendary story called "Beowulf" was told. It spoke of a man being stronger then any other man and killing horrible monsters for the Danes. Then in 2007 a 3D movie was released it also told of Beowulf and him fighting monsters for the Danes but the story and the movie was told a bit differently. First off in the book when Beowulf encounters Grendel’s mother he kills her by cutting her head off with a
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“When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house‚ I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.” In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ Ponyboy is not the ordinary fourteen- year- old boy for he is a greaser‚ a poor person known to be a public disgrace from the East side of town. All of his life he has been living as a nothing compared to the Socs‚ the rich kids from the West-side. He doesn’t know if he should be proud of who he is until his entire world
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many different ways there are some discrete similarities and differences between the movie and the book causing different outcomes to occur. Some interpret beowulf as this hero or as somewhat a greedy man who hungers for power‚ the reader could see the monsters that attack the hall as a form of a curse‚ even the overall plotline could be altered to benefit the form of literature being used. In the novel and the movie the story is quite similar. There is a large threat being shown which is grendel
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concept most living people have never seen before. So that is probably the reason why the book and the movie are so different. In the book‚ there are little breaks from the story where the chorus steps in and talks about what is going on‚ what the gods would say and other things like that. But in the movie‚ they have a narrator that can talk to the audience and the people in the play. In the beginning of the movie‚ the narrator starts talking to the audience about the lonely girl sitting on the stairs
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When books are adapted to movies Directors will usually change a number of things and change unnecessary details. However‚ for the movie The Book Thief the director did not seem to consider all that he was getting rid of that helped the story flow. There were many differences and similarities between the book and the movie. However‚ the film adaptation does not measure up to the original due to some incorrect order of events‚ certain details‚ and the characters. Even though the Movie and the book
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the book compared to the movie. Rikki-tikki-tavi written by Rudyard Kipling has some differences from Rikki-tikki-tavi the movie. Rikki-tikki-tavi the movie is the same concept as the book. Some differences between the two are the characters‚ the setting‚ and the conflict of the story. One thing that can have a difference is the characters from both the book and the movie. In the beginning of the book Teddy’s mother took Rikki-tikki inside the house after the monsoon. Where-as in the movie Teddy’s
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of parents want their kids to read the book then watch the movie. But why? If you read the book‚ you have an image in your head of what the character looks like‚ what their voices sound like‚ and what the scene looks like‚ and usually it is pretty good. But when you watch the movie‚ all those images get shattered. When you read a book‚ there may be parts of the book that you really like that you would like at see on the TV screen. But then‚ when the movie finally comes out‚ the part you like isn’t
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German submarines arrived in the middle of the night” The movie never had this line in it. The movie starts on the boat and in the book it starts on the island where this line is. That’s why I like the book better than the movie in The Cay by Theodore Taylor. When on the raft for the movie it skips a part of the story which makes Phillip and Timothy closer the part of the book when Phillip falls into the water and gets chased by sharks. The movie has much less detail. As well as this also‚ it doesn’t
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Lois Lowry is a book that was made into a movie about a different and strange community. Jonas‚ the main character‚ is struggling because he finds out he is very different than most people after being selected for a very special job. The book and movie follow the same story line‚ but they are both different in a lot of ways. The differences between the movie and the book is Jonas and Fiona’s relations‚ the whole assignment situation‚ and Jonas’s escape. Those three parts in the movie are very important
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outsiders movie and novel have many differences and similarities. I have only written about two of each but it is always fun to go back and look for more There is a hug variation between the two‚ the tiny details were precisely the same. The Outsiders is about a group of kids that are all different some are greasers‚ which have the leather jackets and the slicked back hair‚ and there are the Socs‚ they are the rich kids of town and are more dressed up then the greasers are. One way that the book is different
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