I choose to represent A Series of Unfortunate Events because I found it interesting. I have seen the movie but never read the book before so I wanted to see what is it about, and I was completely amazed because the book is different from any other book I have read. It is written in easy-to-read language and almost every potentially new word is explained through the conversations. Events are weird and sometimes confusing, and everything is different and hard to explain but that is why people like this.
A series of unfortunate events is a series of children's novels. It is written by Lemony Snicket ( a pseudonim of Daniel Handler). The series consists of thirteen books: The Bad Beginning, The ReptileRoom, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, The Carnivorous Carnival, The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, The Penultimate Peril and The End. I have red first two books and have been spellbound by the structure and the story.
Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970) is an American author, screenwriter and accordionist. He is best known for his work under the pen name Lemony Snicket. Handler was born in San Francisco, California. He attended Commodore Sloat Elementary, Herbert Hoover Middle School and Lowell High School and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1992. Handler is politically active and helped form LitPAC. Although Handler has a partially Jewish background and considers C. S. Lewis to be an influence, he describes himself as a secular humanist.
The Basic Eight, his first novel, was rejected 37 times by many publishers for its subject matter and tone (a dark view of a teenage girl's life). The second one, Watch Your Mouth, was actually c...
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...ptile Room and The Wide Window). Frankly, the movie was no as good as the books are, they dropped some details and changed some facts. However, it was amusing to see it on a wide screen so you can at least imagine to yourself all that complicated world.
To conclude, A series of unfortunate events is interesting series of novels for children, but written in different style and language then we use to read. It has 13 sequels and if you want to know the whole story, you should probably read them all. The author is Daniel Handler and he wrote it under the pen name Lemony Snicket. I have represent first book, The Bad Beginning. It tells about three orphaned children and their adventures. The theme is sad and depresive, but every time Baudelaire children manage to get out of every unpleasant situation, just as the old proverb goes: Every cloud has a silver lining.
The series begins with how the main characters, Jack and Annie, discover a tree house near their home. The master librarian Morgan le Fay put the tree house there. The first 28 books in the series Morgan le Fay sends the children on adventures by using the magical tree house. They are transported to a location and historical time. In books 29 and on the children have quests from wizard Merlin the Magician, these books are more sophisticated and appeal to slightly older readers. I started to read this series because my brother had the books and he seemed to enjoy them so I wanted to see if I would like them as well. The thing I love the most about this series is that Jack and Annie visit historical times and locations. They learn about so many different things on their adventures that it is interesting to read about to learn something new. The series also has nonfiction companion books, Fact Trackers, which are books written by the author of The Magic Tree House, Mary Pope Osborne, her husband Will Osborne, and her sister, Natalie Pope Boyce. The Fact Trackers books go more in depth on the topics that a specific book is about in The Magic Tree House
Overall, the movie and book have many differences and similarities, some more important than others. The story still is clear without many scenes from the book, but the movie would have more thought in it.
This is my view on the movie and book. I likes the movie better the book because the
Born in March of 1916 as Jacob (Jack) Ezra Katz, he was the third child to Benjamin and Augusta Katz. His parents were both Polish immigrants of Jewish descent and they raised him in East New York, the predominantly Jewish section of Brooklyn. As immigrants they were plagued with financial difficulties and this was further aggravated when they struggled through the Depression. Despite all of these hardships, Keats had already begun to showcase his artistic abilities. At the age of eight he was hired to paint the sign of a local store. Naturally, his father was quite proud of him when he earned twenty-five cents for his work and hoped that this might endeavor might lead to a steady career as a sign pa¬inter. Unfortunately for him, Keats was smitten with Fine Arts and won his first award in Junior High School: a medal for ...
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When books are very popular most of the time they are made into a movie. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a book that depicts the struggle of poverty and addiction. A movie then was made based on the book. The movie did not follow the book completely, but, that was to be expected. The movie did an excellent job with the cast. No one could have played Rex better than Woody Harrelson. The director did a respectable job of casting people who would have looked like the author described them in the book. Overall the movie did a fantastic job of portraying the major events and showing the overall theme of the book. Watching the movie, you notice a few differences. For example, Lori has glasses on and in the book, she did not get glasses until
By the end of the collection, I was pretty devastated. The young, beautiful, exuberant characters that I began reading about had grown up before my eyes. Some of them were dead, some of them were married with children, almost none of their lives turned out the way they had hoped or planned. The transitions felt real and believable; I almost didn’t want to continue reading at certain points because I knew things could never stay as perfect as they felt in those fleeting moments of bliss. One example of this is when Rolph and Charlie dance together at the end of “Safari”. For a moment, the reader is there with them, dancing, knowing and not knowing that this is the best life will get. The reader is allowed a brief glimpse of the future and in that moment we find out that Rolph goes on to commit suicide seventeen years later. This moment of bliss with the underlying tension of the passage of time encapsulates the theme of the
I have only included what I have to believe are largely important plot gaps and differences in the movie version in comparison to the book one, and so I apologize again if I have missed any other major ones. Forgive me, please.
In the spring of 1861 tensions exploded in America, the tension was started over slavery, westward expansion, and states rights. Abraham Lincoln became president angering the south because Lincoln was a republican who opposed slavery. 7 states in the south chose to leave the north and form the Confederate states of America. After the first shots of the Civil War were fired four more southern states joined the Confederate forces, the Confederate forces all together formed the Confederate States of America. The biggest battles of the Civil War were the battles of Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Bull Run, Antietam, and Chancellorsville.
Second there is more detail in the book than the movie. Well, I think that more detail is better because the more you know the better you understand the movie or
This is an odd little book, but a very important one nonetheless. The story it tells is something like an extended parablethe style is plain, the characters are nearly stick figures, the story itself is contrived. And yet ... and yet, the story is powerful, distressing, even heartbreaking because the historical trend it describes is powerful, distressing, even heartbreaking.
In conclusion, details involving the characters and symbolic meanings to objects are the factors that make the novel better than the movie. Leaving out aspects of the novel limits the viewer’s appreciation for the story. One may favor the film over the novel or vice versa, but that person will not overlook the intense work that went into the making of both. The film and novel have their similarities and differences, but both effectively communicate their meaning to the public.
What I liked about the book was the ways it showed how humans really act. How when civilization leaves and fear takes over we are left as savages. Basically in all humans, evil exists, and we eventually have to release it. It illustrations how, if put the ideal situation, the evil inside man can surface from where it is contained and come to light in the most alarming and upsetting ways. There were many conflicts in the novel; civilization vs. savagery, order vs. chaos, good vs. evil, and reason vs. impulse. They all illustrated humanity and the inner conflicts we may go through each day, yet not as big and heightened as the boys went through in the book. Made me wonder how this book could be applied to today’s society.
The book and the movie were both very good. The book took time to explain things like setting, people’s emotions, people’s traits, and important background information. There was no time for these explanations the movie. The book, however, had parts in the beginning where some readers could become flustered.
Most authors tend to write their books in an enthusiastic fashion. Daniel Handler, on the other hand, has a gloomy writing form, showing the not-so-nice things that can occur to people. For example, the three Baudelaire orphans in A Series of Unfortunate Events. Siblings who just lose their parents in a fire that engulfed their house in flames and have to deal with the nuisance known as Count Olaf, a villain after their enormous inheritance. Handler wrote the thirteen books in the series under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket.