AP Language and Composition 3 December 2012 Factual Changes Within The Crucible While reading Arthur Miller’s‚ The Crucible‚ the audience may believe the play is a literal representation of the events that occurred in the Salem Witch Trials. Despite this‚ many aspects of the play are in fact fictional. Arthur Miller concocted each of the fictive details in the play purposely. Behind each of the modifications Miller made‚ lies a specific reason for that particular change. Within The Crucible‚
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Fantasy Project “Enchanted” In El Dorado California‚ once called Mud Springs‚ lived two twin sisters Elisa and Elizabeth. These 11 year olds lived with their grandmother Myra whom took care of them since they were 4 years of age after their parents passed away in a tragic car accident. They lived humbly in a small log cabin. Elisa and Elizabeth’s favorite pass time was to play in the forest; they loved acting and playing as magicians attempting to do magic tricks. One early evening right
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The Notebook: As if Reading from a Notebook People often refer to the movie The Notebook as a sappy‚ predictable chick flick that plays with your emotions‚ making you spill a few tears here and there. Even though I’ve seen this movie a million times‚ everytime I enjoy watching the story of two young lovers who can’t find a way to be together due to their social backgrounds. It’s a heartbreaking and achingly real love story that will keep you hooked from the beginning leaving you gasping for more
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Of Mice and Men: Book vs Movie -Movie starts off with a woman running away frightened‚ and then the scene changes to George and Lennie running away from men on horses‚ most likely police. They both jump in the water and avoid the men on horses. This did not happen in the book‚ but foreshadows what George tells Slim later on. -They both jump on a train‚ and then exhaustingly crawl to where they sit down. This doesn’t happen in the book. -The next scene‚ they’re in town near an employment agency
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Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”‚ each character has their own differences and similarities. But the major changes shown in the film‚ are between the characters of Gatsby and Nick. The film’s take on these two characters stays within the style of the book‚ but some information about them are seen to be excluded in the film. Through the directing style of Baz Luhrmann‚ both Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby are not portrayed in full as F. Scott Fitzgerald had written them as‚ even though they do share some
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Reading Beowulf before watching the movie allowed for an open‚ personal interpretation of what the author wanted us to create in our minds. We created our own thoughts about the setting‚ characters‚ and imagery that the author had envisioned and put into the book. There were multiple differences between what was read and what was watched. Multiple changes and additions were made to the storyline in the movie. The creators of the movie made the changes with the idea that the story line would be similar
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The Color Purple: Movie vs Book In the novel‚ The Color Purple‚ the author Alice Walker gives several ideas in letter forms‚ such as‚ friendship‚ domination‚ courage & independence. She impacts readers by looking at the story through the eyes of Celie and Nettie. The book describes the life of a young black girl in the 1920’s to the 1960’s. The story of how a 14 year old girl fights through all the steps of an abusive life and finally she is in command for her own life. Celie is the young girl
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soda would sound much more appealing than reading a book by the fire at night while drinking a frappucino from Starbucks. Now‚ producers and directors would take successful and famous stories and adapt it into a movie. Sometimes‚ they would succeed‚ with examples being the Harry Potter series‚ which received mainly positive reviews from both critics and the audience. However‚ most of the time these people would unknowingly butcher the book based movie by taking out many important characters and events
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Potter: Book vs. Movie With all the new movies based on books or comics that are out‚ people wonder why Hollywood keeps doing it. Some say they’re greedy people‚ just doing it for the money‚ and others say that it helps bring the book to life. But I say‚ why ruin a good book‚ like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone‚ with bad lighting and adequate actors? I say that we don’t have to because the comparison between the two forms of entertainment is a landslide victory for the book. You may
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Essay for The Great Gatsby The plot and the setting of book and movie are very similar. There was a lot of thins borrowed from the book‚ but there was a lot changed as well. The movie followed the plot of book very closely and portrayed the setting of the book very well. A lot of the dialogue was borrowed and spoken directly as it was in the book. The movie did an excellent job portraying the 1920’s and the parties that happened at Gatsby’s house. “There was music from my neighbor’s house
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