Compare And Contrast Bernice Bobs Her Hair

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In both the film and the book Bernice Bobs Her Hair, there are some main ideas that mirror and deflect on another. In the book, everything has to be detailed and described down to every last detail, while in the movie, the director had to make sure that the items in the house, barbershop, and in any setting was just as it was in that time period. Many things that were explained in the story go by so quickly in the movie and you have to take notice of every little detail that went into the making of the film. The only things that were changed in the film were slight, if not, unnoticed to you that were mentioned in the book. As well as how they leave you hanging at the end of the story. The one thing that really pops out at me that is similar …show more content…

How the story ends in the book is totally different from the movie. In the book, it ends with Bernice, holding her luggage in one hand, and the two braids that were cut off of Marjorie in the other, she has an impulse to do something pretty nice, in my opinion, by throwing the braids onto Warren's porch, laughed, then ran down the street. In the movie, however, she takes the braids and throws them into the car, then walks away. In that way of ending a film, I think that it doesn't make as much of a statement as it did when she threw the braids onto Warren's porch in the book. By ending the film like the book did, what you get from it is more of an reaction and a bigger impacted statement. There is also more that's unknown to the end of the story that people watching will want to know about. When watching the film, the ending leaves you with just thinking about what Marjorie will wake up to with short hair and how she'll react when finding Bernice missing and the braids in the car. But when you read the book, it leaves you with not only what you get in the movie, but it puts Warren into the mix. How Bernice created a relationship with Warren is what caused Marjorie to become jealous and more hurtful to Bernice since she previously had a relationship with him as well. Another thing that stands out is how Bernice's and Marjorie's hair color is flipped. Bernice is the one who is supposed to

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