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Differences Between Johnny Tremain Book And Movie

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Today I am going to talk about how the Johnny Tremain book and movie are different in many ways. There were many important parts of the book that weren’t in the movie, that it made the movie look like it was never based off of the book. It upsets me how different the movie is from the book. Some of the differences between the movie and the book are Johnny Tremain’s hand, Pumpkin, and Rab’s death.
One of the differences that were most important was Johnny’s hand. Johnny’s crippled hand changed his life and made him look for another job. Johnny’s hand still gets crippled and then fixed in both the book and the movie, but in different ways. The book tells that Johnny’s crippled hand was caused by Dove, one of the apprentices with Johnny in the book . The book says that Dove gives Johnny a cracked crucible for Johnny to look at. Johnny reaches for the cracked crucible before it falls as it pours the liquid metal on his hand and makes it crippled. The movie shows Mrs. Lapham bumping into Johnny before he falls and his hand falls into the liquid metal. The movie didn’t include Dove, who gave Johnny the cracked crucible which made Johnny’s hand …show more content…

Rab was Johnny’s best friend and a role model for him. In the book, when Rab takes part in battle, Rab gets shot and dies in a hospital. Rab’s death was extremely significant in Johnny’s life, and it changed him. You would think such an important event wouldn’t be left out of the movie, right? Well, the movie ends with Johnny and Rab staying at a fort after fighting in battle together, without Rab dying. This difference angered me the most because Rab was Johnny Tremain’s best friend who changed Johnny and gave him confidence great and support. One of the most major events that heavily impacted Johnny in the book wasn’t even in the movie. Without Rab with Johnny, Johnny would have to move on without one of the people who changed his

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