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    The Story And The Movie In the book Devil’s Arithmetic and in the movie Devil’s Arithmetic there were plenty differences and a few similarities. Some of the similarities are that the most of the characters have the same names. Some of the stories hannah tells are the same for instance. In the book/movie it is all about the importance of remembering the Jews who had died during the war and how they had to eat what was put before them and nothing else. When hannah is transported to 1942 she has to

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    Great Gatsby the book contrast against the book in many different ways. Nothing in the movie that was changed from the book‚ changed the overall impact or the meaning of the story. At the beginning of the movie there is not very many differences to the book but near the middle to the end it starts to change a little more. The First contrast would have to be at the beginning of both the movie and book‚ were Tom was described in the book as a very muscular man‚ thats fit and doing all these sports

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    The Hunger Games has two versions. It has a book version and a film version. Although both the movie and the book were great‚ they did have some differences.They did in fact have some similarities too. The book and the movie were alike in many ways. Like for an example the characters mostly stay the same. Also in both versions of The Hunger Games everything that happened in the book also happened in the movie too. Than in both the movie and book Foxface ate the berries that Peeta picked‚ and

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    Peterson tackles the job of bringing the epic of Homer’s The Iliad to the big screen in his film Troy. Iliad being a lengthy text‚ it is impossible to include every detail in a movie. Therefore‚ there are obvious deviations from the book such as the length of the Trojan War‚ and the absence of celestial participation in the war. There is also an absence of mortal female characters such as Chryseis‚ Hecuba‚ and Cassandra in the movie. In contrast‚ though‚ the female characters who are included

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    bestselling novel and movie‚ The Help‚ many stories is told about what it is like to be a working colored maid for a white family. Skeeter Phelan‚ a white daughter of a rich white family‚ seems to be the only one who thinks the point of view of the maids should be shared. Skeeter decides to interview these maids and turn their tragic‚ funny‚ worth sharing stories to the public.The hard times these maids go through is very realistic and dramatically shown in both the movie and the book. Although‚ they both

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    The book I chose is called Holes by Louis Sachar. This is a story about Stanley Yelnats and his family. It seems that they are cursed thanks to his no good‚ rotten‚ pig stealing‚ great grandfather. In the story‚ Stanley Yelnats gets arrested for "Stealing shoes" from the homeless. He is sent away to a camp in Green Lake‚ Texas to teach him a lesson. He is required to dig holes to "build character." After watching the movie and reading the book I like the movie better than the book. The first

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    William Faulkner’s short narrative ‘A Rose for Emily’ was printed. William Faulkner’s narrative may be one of the greatest anthologized works of literature. In 1981‚ Lyndon Chubbuck directed a movie based on the short story. This film has‚ however‚ received criticism from critics suggesting that the feature movie failed to bring about the same emotions as reading the short story. The film failed to bring out the Southern Gothic culture and traditions‚ the change in the chronological order of the events

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    There is a movie and a book version of “Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. The movie is for sure better than the book‚ let’s face it. How many people would like to read than watch a movie? First off in the movie Walter Mitty goes on an adventure‚ but in the book Walter doesn’t. What’s the fun in not seeing an adventure? Let’s be honest the movie adventure is funny and action packed and is more fun than daydreaming. For example in the movie he almost gets eaten by a shark in real life. In the book the only

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    dialogue‚ the setting‚ and the order of events. The dialogue and order of events in‚ The Outsiders‚ is almost completely the same between the novel and the movie because in the book Sodapop Curtis says “Soda just put his hand on my shoulder. ‘Easy‚ Ponyboy. They ain’t gonna hurt you no more.’ ” and “You’re an okay kid ponyboy”. Which is exactly what happens in the movie. “ ‘What’d he want?’ Two-Bit asked. ‘What’d Mr. Super-Soc have to say?’ ‘He ain’t a Soc‚’ I said‚ ‘he’s just a guy. He just wanted

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    technology has taken away its beauty. People had stop reading books and rather watch a movie of it instead. I recently read and watched a short novel called “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck. After I finished watching and reading the book I noticed many things. By reading the book you can experience imagination. Your brain goes to a whole different world trying to picture was is happening in the story. On the other hand‚ the movie doesn’t make you use your imagination because you can see it

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