written by Lois Lowry‚ is a fascinating story about a different type of society and learning the secrets behind it. The movie of the same name directed by Phillip Noyce‚ is creative‚ but showed some very disappointing changes from the book. All in all‚ the book is far more preferable because the plot is far more exciting‚ the characters are developed well‚ and the creativeness is more descriptive than that of the movie. The Giver is a novel about a young boy named Jonas. He is given the profession
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Reading The Book vs. Watching The Movie Reading or watching movie has been a hot topic under debate for the past fear years. Some people find it very hard to choose whether or not to read the book or watch the movie of something. Ultimately‚ most people end up both reading and watching the movie because usually the movie comes out a while after the book is released. Most people find that there are huge similarities and differences between reading the movie and watching the movie in regards to detail
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Rosina Gonzalez ENG 353 02/08/05 Research Paper For this paper‚ I chose the Roald Dahl modern fantasy book‚ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ and the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Dahl’s books are mostly fantasy and full of imagination. They are always a little cruel‚ but never without humor - a thrilling mixture of the grotesque and comic. A frequent motif is that people are not what they appear to be. Dahl’s works for children are usually told from the
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island. Comparing the book and the movie‚ the similarities are more significant. The movie keeps all the major plot elements and the symbolism. However‚ the book does demonstrate the deaths differently and is missing some plot points. Upon searching for the similarities between the 1954 novel and the 1963 film the similarities strike more significant than the differences and they are very important to the plot of the movie. The major elements of the plot remain in the movie. For example‚ all the
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successful best seller books. When books become very popular they are often turned into a movie. Movie producers can predict by the success of book sales if a movie is worth creating. Readers spend their money on books to commit time into reading it‚ similarly to a movie audience. The movie audience spends their money on the ticket to watch the movie. Readers are likely to spend the money and time to watch a movie if they have read the book. I agree with the statement that movie-audience relationship
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Pajamas is a book by John Boyne that was published in 2006. This book takes place during the holocaust. A little boy named Bruno‚ his mom‚ dad and sister Gretel move from their home to a new house where the father is in charge of a concentration camp. Bruno goes exploring at the new house and makes his way to the concentration camp finding a young boy‚ the same age as himself‚ named Shmuel. In 2008 a movie adapted from the book directed and written by Mark Herman‚ was made. The movie was very similar
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Reading a book is like having a raw sketch on the canvas and readers have to put their own color into it because it will create their characters in sync with their own imagination and surrounding. This is why it is important for young people to read because it makes their creativity wild. Suzanne Collins‚ author of the Hunger games novel series‚ also recently have been made into films by Nina Jacobson. Although the movies are fun to watch‚ the novels are definitely worth people’s time. Books not only
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ever looked at a old book or even a movie and thought it would be bad to read because the setting? Or that the book or movie would have to much facts and a very weird way of telling the real story. I sometimes do think this but thats before I knew the difference. To me a modern setting does make the book more fun to read‚ but not more interesting than the original stories. However did you think the modern setting had the main important .. big details of what’s the story is about well it does not. They
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The silent film Sherlock Jr is shot and acted by Buster Keaton in 1924. It tells a story: after being framed as a thief and unsuccessfully saving own reputation in reality‚ the protagonist the boy” becomes the famous detective saves the heroine and penetrates crime in his dream. Again back to reality‚ the heroine finds the truth‚ and they are happily reunited together. Throughout the film‚ the humor of this film surprises audiences from the beginning to the end‚ the blending narrative of both reality
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to use in the story and the movie‚ with them both showing many similarities. The book of Rikki-tikki-tavi is a fictional story that had the classic good guy and bad guy story line. The overall problem the protagonist‚ Rikki-tikki‚ had to face was there were two evil snakes in the garden‚ who were harassing the bird Darzee. Heroic Rikki decided to take on the two snakes‚ but the
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