Comparing Lord Of The Flies Movie And Book Comparison Essay

Books and movies can be sort of similar but they can not be exactly the same. The books can give more detail than the movies and sometimes the movies leave out some of the most important little things. The book Lord of the Flies is about young boys, ranging from six to twelve, who crashed on an island and they are learning how to survive until they get rescued. The main characters, Ralph, Piggy, and Jack, are helping all the younger boys, until eventually there starts become tension between Ralph and Jack. Later on in the book, the boys split into two tribes and most of the boys leave Ralph’s tribe, so it is just Piggy and him. Everybody who joined Jack’s tribe you could tell that they were losing their humanity. In the movie you can visually

The movie started off differently from the way the book started off. The book starts off with “All them other kids,” the fat boy went on. “ Some of them must have got out. They must have, mustn’t they?” (Golding 8). In the movie, it started off with all the boys in the water and them all coming to the island on a raft together. In the book, all the boys are scattered and find each other when they heard Ralph blow the conch shell. They all were together when they reached the beach then they went different ways but found each other when Ralph blew the conch shell in the movie. This shows how the movie and book are not completely alike but they still got the same point across with the blowing of the conch

At the end of the book Ralph talks to the officer and tries to tell him about what happened on the island but in the movie, Ralph did not say anything to the officer. In the book, it says “Hullo.” Squirming a little conscious of his dirty appearance, Ralph answered shyly.” (Golding 200). He responded when the officer talked to him but in the movie, Ralph just looked up at him and did not say anything. The only thing Ralph did that was in the book, too, as he started to cry and then all the other boys, who were on the island, started to cry when they saw Ralph cry. This was another big difference but yet it still got some parts from the book in the movie even though it was not exactly the