Landlady Compare And Contrast Essay

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The book and the movie is the Landlady, and they’re the same story but the book has missing details in the movie. Like in the book, there was a yellow chrysanthemums but in the movie, there isn’t.

The book has lots more details about the setting than the book because in the story it said, that there was a yellow chrysanthemum vase. There is also a similar event that happens as well. Billy Weaver is searching for the Bell and Dragon and he gets sidetracked by the Bed and Breakfast sign. This doesn’t affect the story at all because in both stories, Billy does the same thing. The author’s choice to put it there so that the story connects to the movie. This affects the story by making Billy have a reason to continue the story.

There’s not that many similarities and differences but in the book and the movie, they were the same names that gone missing like Gregory Temples and Christopher Mulholland. The author chose this because, it wouldn’t make sense if two different people went missing with them. The story would sound weird if the reader read the story on paper and then saw the movie. One difference in the middle of the story is that he is 17 but, in the movie he is 18. One reason why the author …show more content…

At the end of the story on paper, the story ends with the landlady smiling at Mr. Weaver while in the movie, we see him pass out and the landlady visiting the other victims she stuffed. The director makes this choice because in the story, the author couldn’t explain the ending well enough so he stops the story. It affects the story because, the reader has to assume the ending while in the movie, we know what’s happening. A similar detail that was in the movie and the book was when the Landlady’s tea tasted bitter to Billy but, he didn’t say it tasted like bitter almonds. The author chose this because, the audience didn’t know that cyanide tasted like bitter almonds so the author put just bitter

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