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    The Death of a Salesman is a play created to evoke thoughts and emotions. The audience sees mental decline and personal demons manifesting themselves in various ways. Three characters stood out more than others. They made the audience feel many more emotions than all the others and cause the strongest reactions. Wily Loman is a salesman who is struggling with everything going on in his world. He loses both his job and his sanity. He is loud‚ abusive‚ and prideful amongst many other things. The opening

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    Because a movie has much less time to showcase the events explained in the story‚ many scenes from a book often get cut out of the movie. If this did not happen‚ most movies that are based off of books would be much longer than the average two hours. One of the major differences I noticed while watching the film To Kill a Mockingbird was the fact that Aunt Alexandra was never present in the movie; she was not in one single scene! Because of this‚ the issue of Scout having to act like a “lady” was

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    The book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a description of the real murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb in 1959. In spite of being based on a true story‚ describing true events that happened to real people‚ the book shows all the qualities of a novel‚ complete with dialogues and other characteristics of the genre‚ in what the author mentioned to as a non-fiction novel. What caught most critics’ attention‚ was the use of filmic establishment in the development of the story. The book was later

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    the laboratory scene. In the book we never really see or hear of a lab like the one in the movie. Although this is not how Mary Shelly wants us to think of the creation of Frankenstein it is very visually moving. With respect to whether the movie improved on this scene I would say yes. I know it is a bold statement but the visuals of the lab and Frankenstein being created is very entertaining. I think that if they tried to do it exactly like Mary Shelly did in the book it wouldn’t have been as visually

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    To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee and the 1962 movie‚ had many differences in the ways they were shown to us in the book and movie. One of the ways‚ is that most of the movie is told in the point of view of Jem unlike the book which is narrated by Scout. The other is about how Mrs. Dubose role in the book and movie are completely different‚ because in the movie she is just some crazy old lady that the kids would walk by. Also In the book‚ she used to show how atticus discipled his kids. These

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    from a child to a mature person. And about a person who is our last hope of survival. There is a movie and the book and I think the book is better than the movie. There are many crucial elements to the book Ender’s Game. Some are the fact that it travels between Ender and Valentine. Another one is when the book give out more detail on what ender did and how he met his friends at battle school. The book carries a lot more details in it‚ like it described what happened after the war. These are important

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    Very few good books translate successfully to a good movie adaptation and most people who both read Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card and watched the subsequent movie adaptation count Ender’s Game among the many rather than the few book to film adaptations. Almost every character changedt from the book to the movie in regards to either personality‚ physical appearance‚ or their given amount of screen time. The plot changed through added romances and the removal of concepts that failed to translate

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    Bruno’s. This story is both a tragic and extremely depressing book and a movie called The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas. The book and movie were both absolutely fantastic and were very much alike‚ but they still had some differences. The few differences between the movie and the book was‚ the ending of the book and movie‚ the perspective in which they were both told in‚ One of the major differences between the book and movie is the ending of each of them. The endings are different in one

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    the story and in the film adaptation. In the classic Greek tale‚ King Acrisius‚ fearful of his imminent death‚ threw Perseus‚ son of Zeus‚ and his mother‚ Danae‚ into the ocean; a fisherman named Dictys rescued both‚ with the help of Zeus. Later‚ Perseus must battle Medusa and the Ketos to save Danae‚ from yet another king‚ King Polydectes‚ and Princess Andromeda‚ respectively. Perseus‚ in the movie version‚ must defeat giant scorpions‚ Medusa‚ and the Kraken‚ all to save the citizens of Greece from

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    stories behind the characters: Florence‚ John’s Aunt‚ Gabriel‚ John’s stepfather‚ and Elizabeth‚ John’s mother. This story is told through both a movie and a book and though they both have the same story line‚ there are also many differences. The movie at times strays away from some important topics that were discussed in the book. One topic the movie does not include in the story was that of John seeing his father naked. In the last chapter of the story‚ when John was bring saved he recalls that

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