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    The Color Purple by Alice Walker depicts the life of an African American woman in rural Georgia and her journey through self-actualization. The narrator‚ Cecile‚ writes letters to God‚ then her sister‚ Nettie‚ about the tribulations she faces at home. Although she is not proficient in the English language and speaks in black dialect‚ she knows writing to God is her only form of expression. In the end‚ with the help of Shug Avery‚ Cecile overcomes adversity while discovering herself and gaining a

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    both the book and novel‚ the novel is to inform‚ and movie is to entertain. This is because in the first few chapters all the author talks about is how bad‚ sad and how the government is being ruined‚ how sad‚ informing the audience what the government can become. In the movie it doesn’t really express how bad the government is and skips over important key details‚ therefore the movie is to entertain. In the movie The Hunger Games‚ the director‚ Gary Ross makes it clear that the movie was made

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    Doon leave their family behind and go to a new city? The City of Ember has many similarities and differences between the novel and the film; however the movie was a more entertaining experience. The movie and book are the same because Lina and Doon escape in both of them. It is important to keep these things the same because sometimes the book is a little bit different‚ but they can not be about a whole

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    In the story of The Color Purple‚ Celie is writing to God about what is going on in her life. In these letters Celie writes about her father Pa‚ her sister Nettie‚ and a few other characters‚ but one of the characters that really stood out was Mr._. Mr._ is a single father looking for a wife to help raise his four children. Mr._s’ first wife had passed away and he had been looking for someone to marry. At first Mr_ had his eyes set on Nettie‚ who Mr._ had seen at church. Mr._would stop by Pa house

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    and depth of the book might produce a movie has many deleted or developed events. This change can lead to different results: add more excitement to the story or unclear point to the viewers. The limited time of movies‚ which is mostly 1.5- 3 hours‚ force the director to do editing and delete many parts of the movie. Although The Help movie deleted many characters and events from the novel‚ it did not effect on the success. The researcher thinks that the movie was not as good the book because there were

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    blockbuster movies based on bestselling novels‚ but often these movies differ greatly from the novel . The movie The Power of One based on a book of the same name follows this trend. The Power of One tells the story of Peekay‚ a boy living in South Africa who dreams of becoming the welterweight champion of the world‚ and who tries to correct the injustice that goes on around him. Although the movie does keep the main themes of the novel like racism and how one person can change the world. The film adds

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    S.E. Hinton was only 15 years old when she wrote this extremely detailed book. I liked her book a lot because of how much detail she put into it. I didn’t like the movie a lot because I was kind of expecting it to be a lot like the book but was disappointed when it left out many different parts of the book. While the book and movie have many similarities and differences‚ the book was more effective in telling the story. To start‚ the first scene in the rumble is when the Socs come to the rumbling

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    Patriarchy The Color Purple by Steven Spielberg is a film and the main plot is a black man that beats and abused his wife‚ Celie. Celie was happy at first to get out of her house because of her abusive father that took her kids away from her but at the same time distraught of leaving her sister. The movie had originated from a book written by Alice Walker. Alice walker was accused of favoring white feminists while at the same time being very bitter to the black males. After the movie premiered‚ Alice

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    The Great Gatsby is a very good book and movie. The characters in the book and movie are some what different but the same. The setting in the book and movie are different as well. Even the parties are pretty much similar in both the book and the film. The book and the movie are pretty much the same in my opinion. The characters in the book and movie are the same. Nick the narrator in the Great Gatsby. Gatsby the mysterious wealthy man that nobody knows anything about. Tom and Daisy who are married

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    Many books have been made into movies. Although we may have enjoyed the book‚ we may not enjoy the movie. One book that was made into a movie recently and had many things different in them is Beautiful Creatures. There are three main things that are different throughout the story in the movie compared to the book. One thing that was different was the characters or cast. Then another thing that stood out the most was the friendship and chemistry between Lena and Ethan. The last thing that

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