The book The River Between Us by Richard Peck was interesting, it talks and describes the different events that happened to Tilley the main character. The movie Gone With the Wind was easier to understand because it showed the different characters. Just as the book, the movie Gone With the Wind also describes the different events that happened in the life of Scarlett, the main character. Even though the book and the movie are different because they describe the life of two different women, they are similar because their lives were effected by the Civil War. In the book The River Between Us by Richard Peck, Tilly tells her story of the experiences throughout the war and how in her younger years she lived in a small town called Grand Tower, with her mother, her sister Cassie, and her twin-brother Noah. Tilley?s sister has visions of the past that had happened. The most resent vision that Cassie saw was the one of the dead and the dying, they were some young boys, being torn apart, blue and gray. This vision was different because it was the first vision for the future that Cassie saw. This shows that Cassie could see the war coming before it actually happened. Her bother Noah joined the war, even though he knew his mother would be worried and try to bring him back as soon as she could. Since Tilley?s mother was so worried about Noah she gave Tilley a lot more responsibility and sent Tilley to find her brother. This book is very unique because Tilley had a gifted sister and a brave brother and Tilley who was their to help them. In the movie Gone With the Wind, Scarlett, the main character was a woman with many struggles in her life. She lived on a farm with her father, her mother, and her slaves but when she left to go help the wounded, the Yankees came to her house and used it as a base camp. The Yankees took all of Scarlett?s family?s food, crops, and animals. Also while Scarlett was gone her mother got sick. Once Scarlett came back to her farm (Terra) her mother was dead. When the war ended her family was too poor to pay the taxes so she married Frank, a rich businessman, so she could pay the taxes. After her husband died she remarried a richer man named Rhett and they had a child named Bonnie.
The story also focuses in on Ruth Younger the wife of Walter Lee, it shows the place she holds in the house and the position she holds to her husband. Walter looks at Ruth as though he is her superior; he only goes to her for help when he wants to sweet talk his mama into giving him the money. Mama on the other hand holds power over her son and doesn’t allow him to treat her or any women like the way he tries to with Ruth. Women in this story show progress in women equality, but when reading you can tell there isn’t much hope and support in their fight. For example Beneatha is going to college to become a doctor and she is often doubted in succeeding all due to the fact that she is black African American woman, her going to college in general was odd in most people’s eyes at the time “a waste of money” they would say, at least that’s what her brother would say. Another example where Beneatha is degraded is when she’s with her boyfriend George Murchison whom merely just looks at her as arm
...oon fairly accurately, despite some major differences. The movie focuses more on certain things and less than others than the book does. There are also parts that are in the book or the movie, but not in the other. The movie talks more about Lovell’s family life, and less on his childhood and earlier career than the book does. These things are not very significant to the plot. The main plot is kept pretty much intact, and the ending is obviously not changed. Most people knew how the movie would end, because it was a very publicized historical event. That is likely why they add so much about Lovell’s and the other crewmembers’ families. This makes the movie more interesting, because it makes it more personalized, and not just a technical description of the mission. It was very interesting to watch the movie after having read the book and compare the two.
“In the midst of death we are in life.” – A quote which John Marsden uses shows a glimpse of hardship, teamwork and conflict that he has included into his novel “Tomorrow when the war began”. The novel stems from the first person perspective of Ellie Linton. The storyline follows a band of several teenagers pursuing a guerrilla war on the villain soldiers who invaded their hometown Wirrawee. The novel also expresses both the physical and mental changes that progress through each character during the invasion. As the characters grow throughout the novel, you are slowly able to notice their independence appear due to the fact that they are transitioning from teenagers to adults in a time of hostility. To visually recreate Robyn’s exterior/ stereotype of the quite, serious, church girl, and her interior of athletic, determined, understanding and faithful, I have created a physical representation of Robyn titled “The Reconstructed Bible” . This incorporates hand-made symbolic visuals to demonstrate how Robyn is more than just a stereotype and the personality traits that she has accumulated during the war outbreak.
As she grew up she stood away from boys but when she noticed and kissed one her nanny married her off. In hope to give a wealthy life in which work was a distant memory. Her treatment in the first community was that of a object by her older husband (Mr.Killington). The community followed his example and thought her as nothing more than a common gold digger. They would gossip and spread rumors about her killing and running away with a young black man.
Scarlett enjoys being with Rhett, but she cannot forget the kisses and secret conversations she has with Ashley Wilkes. Melanie becomes pregnant with Ashley’s child, and Scarlett delivers her baby while Atlanta burns. The Yankees come to Atlanta and burn the city. Scarlett asks Rhett to help her escape, and Scarlett escapes and plans to head home to Tara. When Scarlett arrives at Tara, she learns that the Yankees used it as a camp, and they cleared out all of the food and valuables. She knows she needs to provide for her family since her mother is dead and her father is insane. With the help of slaves, she works like a field hand and finds a way to provide food. She swears that her family will never be hungry again. It is brought to her attention that she needs to pay the raised taxes. Scarlett asks Rhett for money, but he cannot provide because he is in a Yankee prison. She resorts to marrying her sister’s beau, Frank Kennedy. Scarlett moves to Atlanta, once again, to live with her new husband. She decides to begin her own lumber business, and it becomes successful. Society frowns upon her because women are not supposed to run businesses or do a man’s
In both the novel and movie focus on the war. The war influences the characters to enroll.Also, the main setting is at the Devon School. However, in the novel Gene visits Leper at his house but in the movie Leper lives in the woods.In the novel Gene is coming back to the Devon School 15 years later.However, in the book he is coming to Devon as a new student.Therefore, similarities and differences exist in time and setting in the novel and the movie.In the novel and the movie there are similarities and differences in events, character, and time and setting.
First of all in the book it gives much more detail than the movie. The book written by wilson rawls is much more heartwarming than the movie that was made in 1974. The book had a lot more detail than the movie, the movie has missing events that were in the book. For example in the book Billy had three sisters in the movie
Medora Perkerson, Mitchell discusses her novel and her life. She says that it, “isn’t strictly a book about the war, nor is it a historical novel. It’s about the effect of the Civil War on a set of characters who lived in Atlanta at that time”(“American Rebel”). “Gone With the Wind” begins on a plantation “in the period when the old style Southern life was at its height”(“American Rebel”). Then the war arrives, and the main character, Scarlett O’Hara moves to Atlanta, which was a small obscure town until it became important in the war. Scarlett experiences “the thrills and excitement of the boom town that Atlanta became when the war changed it” the difficulties as the Confederacy began to fail, then the “alarm of Atlanta people as they saw General Sherman’s army advancing steadily on the town, and finally the terrifying days of the siege, the capture of Atlanta by Sherman and the burning of the town”(“American Rebel”). After the war is over, Scarlett comes back to Atlanta and helps rebuild the city. “She lives through the terrible days of Reconstruction...up to the time when the Carpetbaggers had been run out of Georgia and people could bean living their normal lives again”(“American
Mystic River is a crime novel went straight to the bestseller lists on 2001 written by Dennis Lehane. The reproducing film Mystic River by Clint Eastwood also won countless Awards. As Lehane points out in his interview with Linda Richards: “ 50 percent of the reviews has said this is not simply a crime novel.” Which obviously pleased him. The psyches and nature of human are the most fascinating parts in his novel. In the story Dave Boyle was abducted as a child and being molested. He lives under struggle and shadow for his entire life. When his childhood friends Jimmy’s daughter being murdered, he became the prime suspect. But who really is the murderer? Dennis Lehane makes this cliffhang the cadenza in his story. Dave Boyle is no doubt the central character in Mystic River. Dennis Lehane gives Dave Boyle a really complex life story and an unpredictable personality, but Clint Eastwood simplifies this character, which also simplifies the plot, making the movie less complete.
...rtrayed differently in the movie. Lennie is shown as being very mentally challenged, whereas in the book he is just a little slow and has a mind of a young child. Although some changes are made in the movie to make it flow better, it is still based on the same story as the book. The movie has the same plot line and characters, and some of the scenes are told in the exact same way as they are in the novel. As well, the movie and the book give out the same themes. This story is about how all the people in the Great Depression were trying to escape their unhappy, lonely lives, but weren’t capable of doing so. The movie stays very true to the book even though some things are removed or added. Everything that is added or changed still works very well and captures the film perfectly.
Many people also agreed with the theory that Scarlett got better when she was at home such as her husband at the time Rhett Butler. After she went back to Atlanta, the siege was over and the town was ruined. Almost everything was burned to the ground and many people are homeless. So Scarlett a while after the siege marries Rhett Butler to ensure that she and her family will never be in poverty or hungry ever again. A few weeks after they are married, Scarlett finds out that she is going to have a baby. But, she falls down the stairs, snd she tragically has a miscarriage. After her miscarriage, she is very weak and unhealthy, so she decided to go home to her plantation, Tara. When she came home from Tara she was her old self and her strength was restored. Later after this instance, Scarlett finally realized how truly important her small plantaion in northern Georgia meant to
The characters play a large role, without them books, movies, ect., dull. Baz Luhrmann captured what F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in the book, even though there were minor differences in the movie. Myrtle Wilson, also known as Tom’s mistress. An uneducated and snobby woman that tried to be someone else. However, the book gives a vivid description telling... that Myrtle…...The movie told a different story, Myrtle was of average build and she was beautiful.
Other than these three main differences the movie and the book are not all that contrasting. The movie was, of course, based off the book, but movies cut out or change some scenes in the story line because inserting all of the tiniest details could make the movie longer than it needs to be. It would also make the movie more expensive to those who want to watch the movie and to those who pay to create it (Ebert, R. (2009, January
the differences between the book and the film, as well as some of my own thoughts on the
Life is dictated by the choices an individual makes, whether significant or not. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and Alistair Macleod’s “The Boat” demonstrate the difficult decisions an individual encounters throughout his or her life. This theme is demonstrated by taking the less common and incorrect path. In the two works, the narrators experience various troubles in which they must make a decision.