Have you heard of this wacky family and their crazy adventure? The Watsons are heading to Birmingham with their family including Daniel their father, Wilona their mother, Byron the older brother, Kenny the middle child, and Joetta the only sister. There are many similarities and differences in the Watsons go to Birmingham book and movie. There are lots of things that are the same and a lot of things that are different that make the book and the movie different and the same. To Start, there are many things that are in a similar fashion. Two of them are the character development by Byron and the church bombing. The church bombing is the bombing of the 16th street baptist church. The church that was bombed was the church that Joetta could have died in. This is important to the story because it shows that even when …show more content…
In the beginning of the movie/book Byron was very mean but as the story went on he became nicer. The reason why this is important is because if Byron hadn’t developed through the whole book/movie he might have not been as much of a leader later on in the story. Also another example of this is when in the beginning of the book/movie Byron was very mean to Kenny but then later on at the end he started being nicer to him. Secondly, there is a conflicting viewpoint in the book and the movie. In the book the main focus is the family but in the movie the main focus is on race and the hard times. This is important because in the movie if it wouldn’t focus on race and tell us what was happening outside of the Watsons story it most likely would be more like the book. For example in the movie when the cousins march and go to jail for 2 weeks they don’t talk about it in the book because this a lot to do with race and the main focus isn’t on race. In the book, it talks about the family more and shows a lot more of their lives. In the movie, it doesn’t talk about the family that
All in all there were many things different about the book compared to the movie.
There are many of the same people like Turtle, Angela, Grace, Hoo, Otis Amber, and Berthe Erica Crow. Also the money is both in the 2’s of millions like 20 and 200. Mr. Hoo still owns a Chinese restaurant that does very poorly. Also Berthe Erica Crow is still partnered with Otis Amber, and they still own the Good Salvation Soup Kitchen. As always Turtle still wins the Westing Game. That’s just a small list of what the similarities are between the book and movie.
Some similarities are, one, the characters are the same. Winnie foster,in the movie and the book still kept her same name, her feelings about wanting to leave. In the book on page 13 it says , “Winnie Foster sat on the bristly grass just outside the fence” showing that her name is the same. Another similarity is, Mae Tuck hits the man in the yellow over the head with the rifle. In the movie it shows Mae Tuck hitting the man in the yellow suit
That is why the point of view is different in the book and in the movie. The second difference is the characters. The characters are different because in the book there are sixteen characters and in the movie there are only ten. The missing characters are Theo Theodorakis, Flora Baumbach, Madame Sun Lin Hoo, and Dr. Denton Deere.
There are a various of ways that the movie The Watsons Go to Birmingham differs from the book. One way the movie differs from the book is in the plot events. Momma gets just as excited as the kids get when Dad brings home a record player in the Brown Bomber. She also gets very excited when he turns on a song that is associated with her memory. Another way that the movie differs from the book is in the resolution. Joey knows about the bombing and tries to comfort Kenny, who thought that Joey was killed during the bombing. He is very relieved and happy to see his sister alive. These are just two of the ways the movie differs from the book in The Watsons Go To Birmingham.
When we saw the movie and the book and saw the movie, there were a couple of thing that they did not mention or did in the movie. In the movie they cut out some thing from the book. They did not really put everything they said in the book into the movie. They also did not really get some people personal feature. Here are something that were different from the movie, than what it said from the book.
Byron changes in the book. Byron is not a nice guy in the beginning throughout the book he starts to change like for example, Bryon felt bad for killing the bird so he made a grave and a small funeral for the bird. When they go to Alabama, Byron has changed he started treating people nicer. He wanted to watch cartoons with Kenny and lastly, Byron felt worried about Joetta because a bomb hit the church so he thought that Joetta
One way the story is different from the movie is that the story is very descriptive of characters and
There are other significant similarities between the movie and the book, so if I overlooked or forgot any extremely crucial points, forgive me.
When watching the film, the first difference the viewer can see between the book and the movie is how the characters are portrayed. A notable example would be Carlson. In the film,
Even though Kenny and Byron are similar, they are also different. While Kenny is smart, and can read, Byron doesn't really pay attention, nor does he care about his schooling/education. Kenny is scranny, and tries, but fails
The actor choices from the film compare to what the book envisioned, but also contrast. The character of Daisy is not similar in the film to what the book
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.
There is a big difference between the book and the series or movie. We did a little research and came out with these differences.
Normally, when a movie is made about a story in a book the two stories are not exactly the same. The movie is adjusted by adding small details or leaving out some parts in order to make the story more