Why is it that when a book gets it’s own movie that there are several differences between the book and the movie? Some people argue that the book is always better than the movie. There is a reason for this. Firstly‚ in most book to movie adaptations small details are changed or are just not included. Secondly‚ the movie often takes short cuts and doesn’t touch on certain aspects that were described in the book. Lastly‚ when reading a book you are free to make your own subtext and fill in the blanks
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In Jack London’s novel The Call of the Wild‚ the main character‚ Buck‚ has developed from a house dog to a sled dog. Buck‚ being forced to adapt in order to survive‚ has made him become the leader of the pack. When Buck was being attacked by the man in the red sweater‚ "He saw‚ once for all‚ that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He learned the lesson‚ and in all his afterlife he never forgot it" (11). This shows that eventually Buck realized that he had to learn to respect
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Into the wild Summary: Into the Wild tells the story of a Emory University graduate‚ Christopher McCandless‚ who leaves his middle class life in "pursuit of freedom from relationships and obligation" (Anderson-Urriola). On this journey‚ he gives up his home‚ family‚ all possessions but the few he carries on his back. He donates‚ what would’ve been his Harvard Law School tuition ($24‚000) to charity and embarks on the search to find himself. McCandless embodies a true transcendentalist throughout
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is made you have to watch the movie. The main character is a 39 year old name Robert that is going threw a lot of life threatening moments. The story is about a virus that is killing a lot of people around the world and it starts in 1976 in California Los Angeles. The main character is facing death and life and he is facing the fact of never seeing a single person again. Well‚ both the movie and book have some similarities‚ and there are a lot of differences. The movie in the book have some details
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The Hunger Games‚ the introductory novel in a trilogy book series written by author Suzanne Collins in 2008‚ is a young adult novel that surrounds a teenage girl named Katniss Everdeen in a futuristic tale of a teenager who defies all odds when they are stacked against her. She is shaken to the core with sacrifice‚ adversity and danger when she finds herself forced to compete in a televised series of games where there is only one survivor. Not only does she want to live‚ but she has an incredible
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The Great Gatsby Comparison Paper The similarities and the differences between the book The Great Gatsby and the movie G are many in both accounts. The book The Great Gatsby was written and set in the 1920’s with all caucasion characters‚ and the proper talk and everyday life of the 20’s. The movie G is much different in this aspect because the writter’s and the director of the film decided to modernize the story and make it more catered to the new african america lifestyle
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conflict‚ there are no stories worth telling - or reading.” Is an utopian society the way to go? In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ the protagonist Jonas soon realized after becoming The Receiver that the Elders in his community have been hiding the truth of what could have been. There is more feeling and technology in the movie compared to the book The Giver. The movie and the book The Giver have similarities‚ such as‚ the characters are all the same. Jonas is strong‚ courageous‚ and wants things
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a figure on horseback without a head.” Although the movie Sleepy Hollow is based upon the book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow‚ there are also distinctions which allow each to tell their own tale. Washington Irving’s short story inspired Tim Burton’s film but did not limit it. The foundations of the two are much the same but their story lines unfold diversely. Some of the similarities include the setting‚ characters‚ and plot points. Two of the many contradicting ideas are the character of Ichabod Crane
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was able to pass on the story in the novel Lone Survivor which was also later adapted into a movie. Although the book and movie both have the same story about a SEAL surviving against all odds‚ there are still some differences between the book and the movie. In the movie‚ Lone Survivor‚ there are a lot of similar things that also happened during the tragic real life mission. For example‚ the author of the book and main character‚ Marcus Luttrell‚ was saved by Afghan villagers that helped him and protected
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contradiction could be found with his life in Alaska. The reason why he went there was because he was motivated by his books. One of them is “Call of the Wild”‚ by Jack London. The story of this book is about a dog from California‚ going back to Alaska undergoing lots of sufferings. It seems that the dog got absolute freedom‚ but the author himself never went to Alaska‚ not even into the wilds. Chris also thought that Alaska was a pure nature. He thought that this purity and isolation would enable him to
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