Dr. Seuss: Growing Through Reading

What draws people into reading a book or watching a movie? Although they have many differences, there are similarities that cannot be overlooked. The science fiction book titled Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card was adapted into a movie that received mixed reviews concerning the justification of the book. Ender Wiggins, a genius, and a nobody on Earth, was the project of higher-ups in the world government. He was to be the next Commander of the Fleet that would destroy the Formic species in the Third Invasion. First, the character development in the movie had big differences to the book although the big picture was hardly altered. Next, the plot of the movie was altered from the book in a way that would grab an audience's attention in theater,

Reading a book and watching a movie is different because when you read a book you can use the world of imagination. You get to make up the characters voices, imagine what they look like, and read at the pace you want to read in.

Through over forty-two books Dr. Seuss has been able to encourage children to seek delight in reading and has opened the minds of successive

Books give you the opportunity to let your mind make up the pictures about the story, based on how you want. It allows your mind to think outside the box and use your imagination. In a movie or show, the television shows the picture for you, without having to think or question why it is that way. Books also give the reader more details and information about the story, while movies just show it the way they think it should be. Lots of people claim that when you read a book and watch a movie over the same topic, the movie is always better. In that case, you should open a book and dive into your own

During his time in the war, Dr. Seuss learned so many things, uncovered so many talents, that he didn’t really know how and when to use them. He tried several different career options before he finally settled: he wrote articles for Life magazine, monthly children’s story for Redbook, submitted advertising concepts for Ford Motors, created film strips, drew political cartoons for The New Republic, lectured on children’s literature and produce animated cartoons.

Behind every great movie, comes a storyline that is derived from a book however, most of the books to the movies have a great number of deviations. The screenwriters and other staff members to include the director come up with these deviations to enhance the plot in the attempt to make it a more interesting film to which in turn can make a better profit. The majority of differences that is found in films main objective is to enhance the mind. For example, when a scene has the ability to get a particular feeling out of a viewer, it is imperative to be able to understand the reasons for those feelings. The dialog and the visual effects of a scene sets a tone that differs from that of the book that it was taken from. Also, screen writers and

It is seven forty-five. There are still a few precious minutes until bedtime. My younger sister and I have already dressed for bed, but our plot is to drag out every second we have left before eight o’clock. Only one thing remains for us to do to accomplish our mission: read. We beg our parents to read to us, and they, as predicted, agree. The two of us sprint to our shared bedroom in order to stare at the bookshelf. Two toddlers find it difficult to the correct book. We must choose a book that both of us will enjoy, we must choose a book on a shelf that one of us can actually reach, but most importantly, we must choose a lengthy book. So we, of course, choose the longest two books we can reach. I snatch a treasury of children’s stories, and my sister selects a treasury of Dora the Explorer stories. Never had we read either one of these in one sitting, but we regularly tried to push the boundaries just a bit farther.

"Seuss..!!. Seuss...!!" I heard the familiar voice calling my name. I squirmed my eyes and again my name yelled "Seuss..!! Dinner is ready!!"

When a person reads a book they are entranced in the plot line. They have to comprehend and understand in order to finish the book and have it make sense. Movies can just be idly watched without gaining attention or intellect. Due to this, movies do not leave an impression.

In the world of modern technology there are many ways to keep one entertained and informed. Two of the best ways are through the reading of books, and the watching of movies: both are eternal works of art designed for those who would wish to momentarily leave the existent of reality and dive into a world unknown or to question the known world through stories of factual relevance. Both take the entertained on a journey that has been created in the minds of a genius, but, it is the way they take the entertained into their imagery worlds that are different. Books, for example require the reader to use there imagination to mentally visualize the image the author is trying to perceive. Movies, on the other hand, will have the audience mesmerized as the picture comes to life right before their eyes. Both books and movies are great evening actives

Readers interact with the book and use their minds to imagine the story while movie-audiences are more passively enjoying the movie. We see how and why things change from reading books and how the movie may have a different concept. When reading books, a person is creating their own movie in a sense. You know how the character speaks, what they look like. Where the director is showing how he perceived the story and

Raymond Mar, a psychologist at Your University in Canada and Keith Oatley a professor An The University of Toronto, they both say that “individuals who often read fiction appear to be better able to understand other people, empathies with them and view the world from their perspectives.” I agree that reading certain types of books can help people further understand and see things from a different point of view. Reading helps to open people's eyes and to teach life lessons or to show there are other things to believe in and know other than what they have always been told to know. Getting different types of books, types that are not always the same as the books that you normally read can help you to view things differently. For example from personal experience a new book can help your imagination grow, readings helps me a lot when I need to come up with new ideas for an art class. The new places a book takes you the new images you see while you are reading the new stores you hear and the happy ending your book might have can change the way you are feeling it can brighten up your day.

Reading was the new outlet for my imagination and the stories I read fascinated me. They weren’t too unlike the scripts of computer games or the own stories I came up with on my own, but books actually had the action and emotional aspects written out. And again, while my peers were reading things about growing up, things that had morals and would teach valuable lessons (I remember one book about a shoplifter who had to do community service at an animal shelter), I read real fiction: Jurassic Park, Dragonriders of Pern, Lord of the Rings… Stuff of fantasy and science-fiction that let my mind stray from reality. Stuff that kept my imagination alive while I was being forced to learn multiplication and the names of countries. Of course, my teachers encouraged me to keep reading, as long as I wasn’t doing the reading in the middle of their lectures. But it wasn’t because of their influence, however, that kept me interested in books. It was because I loved it. It put pictures into my head and made me think. So I kept reading. But even then I knew reading wasn’t enough… Yes, the stories were fascinating, but they weren’t what I wanted. Back then I wasn’t sure what I wanted, but as middle school came to a close, I found it.

Reading develops a person’s creativity. Unlike movies where everything is determined by the producer, writer and director, books allow students to create in their minds how a particular character looks like or imagine how a scene plays out.

Readers read fiction to understand people they haven’t met and places they’ve never visited. If a reader were to compare a book and its movie , they would always agree that in the book, you know what the protagonist is thinking and you know more about the character and have time