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    Great Expectations and Ender’s Game Ender’s game is a book‚ by Orson Scott Card‚ about a young boy named Ender who commits his whole childhood to saving the world from a third alien invasion. Great expectations is a story‚ by Charles Dickens‚ of a young boy who aspires to become a gentleman and out of all odds he is able to make it into higher society. Both Enders game and Great Expectations tell the story of young boys who strive to become something greater than what they are. Although the story

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    people do such cruel things? The novel The Outsiders explained this when it was released in 1967. Then‚ the movie The Outsiders was released in 1983. They both show the hardships of a group of boys in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma. The movie was based off of the novel and they did a good job of recreating the novel‚ but there are still many differences that separates these two. The book and the movie are very similar‚ but there is some very large differences. The major plot points are the same in both versions

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    anyone can remember‚ accomplishing great things. Heroes give a town a feeling of security that if anything happens the heroes are there to save them. Heroes like Hercules‚ give the town a sense of hope‚ that nothing bad will happen to them and they can live in happiness and peace. However‚ when comparing hero myth’s to their movies it can major differently‚ and be just alike. In the movie Hercules compared to the myth Hercules there are many differences. In the book‚ Apollo and Hercules have a quarrel

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    Beam‚ Patricia English pd. 7/8 November 1‚ 2012 What do you do when you read a book then watch the movie on it? Do you watch it to get the picture of the story or do you watch it to compare the two? When reading a story then watching a movie you need to watch out for the similarities and differences between the two. The book Beowulf and the movie Beowulf have a few similarities and a good bit of differences. Some similarities are they both have the same characters‚ Beowulf cuts off Grendel’s

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    Twilight: Book vs. Movie When comparing the book Twilight‚ written by Stephanie Meyers‚ with the movie Twilight‚ screenplay written by Melissa Rosenberg and produced by Catherine Hardwicke‚ there are multiple visual differences between the two. Some important scenes were changed or even omitted from the original text‚ leaving noticeable gaps in the movie’s plot. There are big and important differences‚ which are obvious‚ while there are also less important differences between them such as names

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    The movie Hercules and the myth "Heracles" both describe the story of a demi-god‚ Hercules. His quest to prove himself worthy of god-hood is described in various tasks which he completes to show his strength and bravery. Disney and Rosenberg & Baker’s depictions of Hercules are similar‚ with the gods mentioned in the movie representative of those described in the myth. Hercules also succeeds in transforming into a god at the end of both works. However‚ the list for similarities between the movie

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    Great expectations Analysing my story board We are reading Great Expectations and our task was to storyboard the opening scene where Pip encounters he convict‚ Magwitch‚ for the first time. I am going to analyse 3 of the 8 frames. First of all‚ I am going to look at Frame number one‚ this is where Pip is at the cemetery mourning over his lot family. I decided to show Pip at the cemetery looking at his parents and his brother’s graves. I did this because it shows a clear and rich understanding

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    Have you ever done something just to hurt or to mess with someone else who has wronged you at one time? In reading Great Expectations we learn that revenge is what drives people on in this book. For people like Miss Havisham her revenge on men by raising Estella to spite them. We also see in able how he wants to have Compeyson caught and locked away for making him get more jail time. Miss Havisham fell in love with a man from you lower class‚ then she was but on the day of their wedding her soon

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    ever read a book and then watched the movie? If you have‚ you know that there are many differences and similarities. There are differences and similarities in the plot‚ the themes‚ and the characters. This paper is going to give a summary of the book and the movie. Then it will compare the characters‚ plot‚ and theme. It will also contrast the characters‚ and the plot. Here is the compare and contrasting on the book and movie called The Devil’s Arithmetic. To start things off‚ in the book and in the

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    Great Expectations: Symbolism In life‚ symbolism is present all around us. Whether it is in the clothes we wear‚ the things we do‚ or what we buy‚ everything has a meaning. Symbolism is also present in literature and it is shown in Charles Dickens Great Expectations. The symbols of isolation‚ manipulation‚ the tragic hero‚ and wanting to be someone else are seen throughout the book through the characters of Estella‚ Magwitch‚ Miss Havisham‚ and Pip. The character of Estella represents the symbols

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