Divergent: Comparing The Book And The Movie

There is always a big conflict between which is better, the book or the movie. In my own opinion the book is usually better because of the amount of detail the author can put into it. Movies usually are not able to put all of the details in it because of the time issue. The thing that makes books so good is the intricate detail to the small things. Books almost always have a backstory to things, but in movies they have to get straight to the point to make it only about two hours. The movie is missing characters, backstories, and different kind of relationships, small scenes, different turnouts of scenes, and many other small differences. Books and their movies also have many similarities also. They do not always differ in a bad way. The similarities

For an example, in the book of Divergent, the main character Tris had gotten a tattoo on her shoulder of three crows. The book had explained the reasoning behind her getting that tattoo. She had gotten it to symbolize each one of the family members she had left behind. Throughout the whole book, the author made a point to explain many explanations behind things to actually put meaning behind the story. The author wanted to have a backstory so in the end, everything could come together. Although the author did this, the director for the movie made a decision to take a different path. In movies, the director only has a certain amount of time so the movie would not be too long. Without having these back stories, like the one about the tattoo, limits the audiences knowledge of what is going through the character’s minds throughout the movie. While reading the book you can understand what they are thinking and why they do what they want but during the movie, all Tris said when getting the tattoo was, “I want this one.” Another good example is the characters and the impact they put on the plot of the story. There was a dauntless initiate that died the first time on the train. That character did not appear in the movie and that is something they should have included because it shows how much danger the initiates were in. It also gets the audience more into the movie and grabs their attention. Between the book and the movie, the relationships can be different. In the movie, the characters Christina and Will have a romantic relationship between the two of them but in the movie, they are just close friends. The book just has more time to build up to those kind of relationships while movies have to get to the point and focus on the bigger plot of the story so they do not grab the audience as much as the book might. The differences have big impacts to the story but the