Julia Golubenko Mrs. Greenfield Close Reading and Critical Writing November 13‚ 2007 The movie Namesake was a fairly good depiction of the book. As a movie‚ apart from the book‚ it was good. The characters played their role well‚ emotional scenes were shown‚ and the point of the movie was easy to see. The problems that I had with the movie‚ was the fact that they cut out Gogol’s whole college life and Ruth‚ his first girlfriend. This was taking out a huge part of his life‚ where Gogol actually chose
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island. Comparing the book and the movie‚ the similarities are more significant. The movie keeps all the major plot elements and the symbolism. However‚ the book does demonstrate the deaths differently and is missing some plot points. Upon searching for the similarities between the 1954 novel and the 1963 film the similarities strike more significant than the differences and they are very important to the plot of the movie. The major elements of the plot remain in the movie. For example‚ all the
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Rosina Gonzalez ENG 353 02/08/05 Research Paper For this paper‚ I chose the Roald Dahl modern fantasy book‚ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ and the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Dahl’s books are mostly fantasy and full of imagination. They are always a little cruel‚ but never without humor - a thrilling mixture of the grotesque and comic. A frequent motif is that people are not what they appear to be. Dahl’s works for children are usually told from the
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In 1996‚ director Nicholas Hynter released a film adaptation of Miller’s play. Despite popular belief‚ movie adaptations hold just as much significance as the original written text. Both the text and its visual counterpart are created to convey a message‚ just in their own respective ways. As authors use literary devices to create meaning and convey themes within their texts‚ directors use movie techniques. A technique like lighting can be used to characterize‚ while visual symbolism can allude and
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to use in the story and the movie‚ with them both showing many similarities. The book of Rikki-tikki-tavi is a fictional story that had the classic good guy and bad guy story line. The overall problem the protagonist‚ Rikki-tikki‚ had to face was there were two evil snakes in the garden‚ who were harassing the bird Darzee. Heroic Rikki decided to take on the two snakes‚ but the
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film and the book portray a conflict between Grant Wiggins‚ the protagonist‚ and Reverend Ambroise about religion‚ the community and Jefferson‚ however‚ the book provides a more in-depth layer to the conflict. In the novel‚ not only does Ambroise besiege Grant about his atheism‚ but also asserts his dominance and his power as a reverend; Ambroise flaunts his authority‚ because he believes that Grant threatens his power when Grant actually does not care about Ambroise’s power. For the movie‚ however‚
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Lowry‚ is a fascinating story about a different type of society and learning the secrets behind it. The movie of the same name directed by Phillip Noyce‚ is creative‚ but showed some very disappointing changes from the book. All in all‚ the book is far more preferable because the plot is far more exciting‚ the characters are developed well‚ and the creativeness is more descriptive than that of the movie. The Giver is a novel about a young boy named Jonas. He is given the profession of the Receiver
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Pajamas is a book by John Boyne that was published in 2006. This book takes place during the holocaust. A little boy named Bruno‚ his mom‚ dad and sister Gretel move from their home to a new house where the father is in charge of a concentration camp. Bruno goes exploring at the new house and makes his way to the concentration camp finding a young boy‚ the same age as himself‚ named Shmuel. In 2008 a movie adapted from the book directed and written by Mark Herman‚ was made. The movie was very similar
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published both as a book and as a movie. Being a reader or a viewer entirely changes our point of view on the story. As a reader‚ we get descriptive insight on the situations and emotions of the characters. We are then able to re-create these visually using our imagination and have endless freedom doing so. As a viewer‚ our creativity is somewhat restricted. We do not imagine the characters’ physical appearance‚ the locations or the overall situations in the same way as in a book. These elements are
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similarities and differences between them. In these two novels “A Letter Home” and “Waiting For Dan‚ ” they are well written and really both have one big idea about the whole entire story. Firstly‚ the main thing these two have in common are that there is someone writing a letter to the people at home. In “A Letter Home” a girl in college Kara is writing to her parents about protests in her school. On the other hand‚ Dan from “Waiting For Dan” is writing to his wife and kids from a prison in Mississippi because
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