Compare And Contrast The Westing Game Movie Vs Book

569 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Comparison essays

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is a thrilling and mysterious novel that could be tuned into a great movie; that is if the director bothers to read the book first! The Westing Game book have many details, some very important, that were left out in The Westing Game movie. Recently, the 6th grade students at Gull Lake Middle School read and watched The Westing Game, and were underwhelmed when many details were left out of the movie. The Westing Game book and novel have many similarities and differences that are worth writing about. The Westing Game novel by Ellen Raskin is about a rich business owner named Sam Westing looking for an heir cunning enough to figure out difficult puzzles and riddles. Sam put together a game to find who “murdered”

Show More
Related

  • Compare And Contrast The Westing Game By Ellen Raskin

    303 Words  | 1 Pages

    In the Gull Lake Middle School, 6th graders read and watched “The Westing Game”. The story is about people who are put into pairs to find out killed Sam Westing. In the end Sam was Sandy, Barney, Julian R., and originally Windy. There are many similarities and differences.

    Read More

  • Hoot: Similarities Between The Book And The Movie

    508 Words  | 2 Pages

    The book Hoot and the movie Hoot are very alike and very different. Some people like them both but some people only like one, or neither.

    Read More

  • Compare And Contrast High Noon And The Most Dangerous Game

    536 Words  | 2 Pages

    The two story High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game" are alike in some ways, but very different in many other ways also. High Noon is a story about an honest man named will khan; Who is a Marshall that has sent a prisoner to jail named frank Miller. Who has now come out of jail to get revenge on will. When will needs the towns people of hadleyville for help to defeat frank when he comes after will no one helps. In the other hand "The Most Dangerous Game" is about two very skilled hunter between Rainsford who get trapped on Ship-Trap island by Zaroff who owns the island. When Rainsford realizes what Zaroff hunts in his island he must leave as soon as possible. Zaroff tells Rainsford he could either hunt with him or against him.

    Read More

  • The Westing Game Character Analysis

    591 Words  | 2 Pages

    There was a game. The Westing Game. To find an heir. To win it all. Sixteen players. Eight teams. One winner. Who became the heir of Sam Westing. Sam Westing died, or supposedly did, and his sixteen heirs were trying to figure out who killed him, or if he was killed at all, which we found out, later in the novel was true. All of the teams had different clues, and they tried to figure out what those clues meant. In the mystery novel, The Westing Game, written by Ellen Raskin, the elements that were mysterious were: the main conflict, setting, characterization, and the technique the author gave clues to the reader.

    Read More

  • The Westing Game Review

    674 Words  | 2 Pages

    The main charter is a twin tail hair girl, Tabitha-Ruth "Turtle" Wexler found all the keys of this game. This novel is based on this smart girl to led reader find out the murder and answers. This girl like play stock market and cheese. But she hate anyone touch her tail, once you touch, she will kick your shank and get away from her. At the end of the novel, no one get the two million dollar legacy, but every got what they need. Some of them realized what were important for them; love, friendship, or family. If we have to determine a winner, I think that will be Mr. Westing, he spent all his life with his family, and help them found out what they lose in their lives. He has four different identities. Sam "Windy", which was a fakes his death as self-made millionaire; a realtor Barney Northrup; as Sunset Towers doorman Sandy McSouthers; as Julian Eastman which run the Westing Paper Products Corporation as its newly-elected chairman. Finally, he unties his family all together, finish his goal. It’s a happen ending.

    Read More

  • Westing Game Compare And Contrast Essay

    703 Words  | 2 Pages

    The Westing Game has lots of mystery, red herring, and of course victory and loss. Using chess Sam W. Westing was able to fool all but one. The winning heir, Turtle Wexler, used it to find the fourth, claiming her win to Sam W. Westing. That proved that she was the smartest and the one that was able to take is company. The book and movie are different, but similar too.

    Read More

  • A Separate Peace Movie And Book Comparison

    939 Words  | 2 Pages

    The film and writing industry go hand in hand, as they often inspire one another. As a result, the translation of many novels into movie format and vice versa vary in success. For instance, many people prefer the film format over the novel since it is usually less time consuming and requires less active participation. However, films tend to overlook significant details which assist the viewer's understanding of the story. Therefore, the two separate forms of media have too many differences to portray the same work of fiction accurately, as they both have their pros and cons that appeal to different types of stories and plots. Numerous changes in the movie adaptation of the novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, affected the viewer’s interpretation

    Read More

  • Big Fish Movie And Book Comparison

    736 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the novel Big Fish by Daniel Wallace, we are told the story of Edward Bloom, a man of many adventures, who is somewhat of a myth. Big Fish is a collection of the tall tales Edward tells his son about his life, and also of the effect his tales had on his son. The novel comes from an American author from Alabama, while the movie comes from Hollywood and is directed by Tim Burton, who is also American. This story is not an ancient sacred text, so the story’s function(s) is to entertain and to make money.

    Read More

  • Essay On The Westing Game

    1439 Words  | 3 Pages

    Funerals, the place where people go for money and free food. The Westing Game by Ellen Raski is a story of a mysterious man (Sam Westing) who is murdered and leaves a fortune to one of twelve heirs. They have 10,000 dollars to find out who killed Sam and the desire for the money. They all were put into groups of two and were given clues to find his murder. The whole concept of money blinds the heirs from what is actually happening in the real world. In the Westing Game, Ellen Raski uses money to act as a power to show how strong the value of emotional power is and how we get caught up in artificial power searching for emotional power.

    Read More

  • The Westing Game: Similarities And Differences

    324 Words  | 1 Pages

    The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is a mystery that involves sixteen heirs, an eccentric millionaire, and an elusive game. Sam Westing brought the people together to find out who took his life, and the winner could gain millions. In the end, the players all benefited from Westing’s plan. However, since there is both a movie and a book version of the story, there are similarities and differences.

    Read More

  • The Most Dangerous Game: Comparison Of Book And Movie

    1806 Words  | 4 Pages

    “I hunt more dangerous game….” Similarities and differences can appear anywhere, especially in the short story and the movie called The Most Dangerous Game. They have similar, yet different expositions, characters, and plots with conflicts. Many people say that books or short stories are better than movies because of the similarities and differences that are found. Books or short stories are usually more descriptive, informative, and do not stray too far from the central idea or main theme, while movies only fall into one or two of these categories. Movies hardly ever fall into all three categories, however if they do the movies become better. This is not the case with The Most Dangerous Game. One place where movies and short stories have major similarities and differences is at the beginning of the story or the exposition.

    Read More

  • Mystic River: Comparing the Book and Film

    1117 Words  | 3 Pages

    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.

    Read More

  • Into the Wild: Comparing the Book and Movie

    755 Words  | 2 Pages

    Into the Wild, a novel written by Jon Krakauer, as well as a film directed by Sean Penn, talks about Chris McCandless, a young individual who set out on a journey throughout the Western United States, isolating himself from society, and more importantly, his family. During his travels, he meets a lot of different people, that in a way, change his ways about how he sees the world. There are many characteristics to describe McCandless, such as “naïve”, “adventurous”, and “independent”. In the book, Krakauer described McCandless as “intelligent”, using parts in his book that show McCandless being “intelligent”. While Krakauer thinks of McCandless as being “intelligent”, Penn thinks of McCandless as a more “saintly” type of person.

    Read More

  • Compare and Contrast The Hound of the Baskervilles Movie and Book

    1087 Words  | 3 Pages

    The Hound of the Baskervilles written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the movie The Hound of the Baskervilles directed by Jeremy Bret are two works of art that are mainly telling the same story. There are, however, many differences about the book and the movie. Those differences don’t affect the outcome of the story, but they give less impact to the story. Along with the differences there are many similarities, and those similarities give you confidence that it is the same story.

    Read More

  • Being There: Comparison of Book and Movie

    1118 Words  | 3 Pages

    The book, "Being There," is about a man named Chance, who is forced to move out of the house he lived in his whole life and his experience in the outside world. Based on the success of the book, the movie, "Being There," was made. The author of the book, Jerzy Kosinski, also wrote the screenplay for the movie. I think the major difference between the book and the movie is that in the book, we get to read what Chance is feeling and thinking, but in the movie, we only get to see his actions.

    Read More

More about Compare And Contrast The Westing Game Movie Vs Book

Open Document