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    Books are often the inspiration for popular movies. However, people who love to dwell in a book find themselves frustrated while watching the movie verse. When people read the book, they create their own little movie in their minds. People use their imagination to make sense of many parts of the book. When they watch the movie they are often discouraged since it doesn’t match their expectations. Books can easily project ideas to the reader that movies cannot. It is challenging for a movie to follow

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    it the book and the movie. Both of which is helpful to learn from. But what is a good source to use the movie or the book is what i'm wondering. In to kill a mockingbird novel we have the opportunity to read through it and get an image in our minds using the contents within the novel .And as the author harper lee helps that come to life in our mind, the movie is more visually and we can see it for ourselves and it’s beneficial to those who have a harder time reading or focusing on the book and like

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    “Where The Red Fern Grows.” That’s what I am going to talk about. I will be telling you things about the movie and the book. I will also tell you some similarities and differences about the book and the movie. Let’s begin, shall we? Right now, I’m going to talk about the book. Let me identify characters the characters.There is Billy, Papa, Grandpa, Billy’s three sisters, and finally there is Old Dan and Little Ann. The story begins with a boy, named Billy and he wants some hound dogs that he can

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    Many people may agree that the movie was better, but personally, i think the book was better. The book let your imagination go wild, but the movie just held your imagination back by showing you the scene on a screen. Unlike the movie, the book gave a more vivid description of “The Tell Tale Heart” by telling you every single detail. That is why I think the book was more enjoyable to read instead, of watching the movie. The book had to give a very detailed description of what was happening

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    repressed scenes in the movie transition people’s aspects of the plot? This story took place in the mid 1930’s in Macomb, Alabama. Jem, Scout, and their father, Atticus, all deal with upcoming tasks throughout the book. Atticus gets put on a case of a black man, A big roll in this was how people were prejudice and treated blacks differently. This book is interesting to read because it is told as a flash back from Scout, who experienced the events in her time. Harper Lee wrote the book, To Kill a Mockingbird

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    When a books are made into movies, they can be similar and they can be different. There are generally differences between two different versions of something. There are many similarities and differences in the book and movie version of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. An important similarity between the book and movie of To Kill a Mockingbird is the strong, mutual interest between Arthur Radley and Jem, Scout, and Dill. Arthur also known as Boo as the children call him, left the children numerous

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    "The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell, first published in Collier's book on January 19, 1924. The story features a big-game hunter from New York who falls off a yacht and swims to an isolated island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by a Cossack aristocrat. The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s. The story has been

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    The movie shows differences like for example, in the movie Eva and her boyfriend are walking and then being chased by some gang members. As for the book they were getting off the bus and seen some guys with guns that begin to run. Another thing is that Ms. Gruwell is married and then gets divorced in the movie but in the book they never mentioned any part of her life. In the beginning of the movie Eva begins making it contradict the book as it begins with Ms. Gurwell explaining

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    Since before I can remember, I have always loved books. Over the years, I have read a plethora of books. Those books have varied from tales of knights, princesses, and castles to books about real world situations. Although I have read so many books of so many genres, very few of them have consisted of Shakespeare. This all changed in the 8th grade when one of the books that we were required to read was A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Previous to this, I had never read a play by Shakespeare and I had

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    I have seen the movie The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and I would like to give an opinion on it. The movie is about all kinds of stuff, you have orks,goblins,hobbits and wizards. It is a fantasy it’s not a non-fiction movie, it may not be real and all of that but it is still a fantasy. It was directed by Peter Jackson, it was pretty good projecting nothing looked like it was wrong it looked perfect. The movie it also very well acted and very well directed and very well written. The hobbit took place

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