Ha Nguyen Lemonade Mouth It is very common to see novels being adapted into films. Whether if the films stayed true to the novels or not, it’s depend on the directors and their targeted audiences. Lemonade Mouth was made into a movie by Disney in 2011 where they their targeted audiences were children while the book Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes targeted audiences were young adults. Since Lemonade Mouth was made into a movie by Disney, some contents that were in the book were either changed or erased in the film in order for it to be appropriate for Disney targeted audiences. The movie maybe better for children due to the fact that it has been filtered and censored while the book was better for young adults because it has more details and that it was more relatable due to the fact that it has more mature contents that young adults could relate with. First, “the change demanded by a new medium. For instance, film and literature each have their own tools for manipulating narrative structure” (Adaptation: From Novel). For example, the book was told in a series of first person narratives where readers will get to …show more content…
In both the book and the movie, Mo starts out dating one of the players in their school popular boyband, Mudslide Crush. While in the movie Mo broke up with Scott due to the fact that she saw him flirting with another girl and in the book Mo broke up with Scott because she saw him kissing another girl. In the book, the readers were able to see how much Mo has grown into a strong independent woman from what she started out as. While in the movie, Mo changes were not focused and we haven’t seen a lot of changes from her. The biggest differences between the movie and the book was that in the movie she had gotten back together with Scott, while in the book we’ve seen that she had finally gotten over Scott and now is dating
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
There are many similarities and differences that can characterize the movie and the book as different or similar. The movie provides a lot of differences to separate the movie from the book. There are some similarities to that really make the book and the movie similar too. I liked the book better because the book expresses Charlie’s thoughts and his development better.
A story is always different depending on the person telling it. This is the case in To Kill a Mockingbird, a classic book by Harper Lee published in 1960. The book is about a child growing up in a racist community in Alabama and the challenges she faces. During her childhood, She messes with Boo Radley, a neighbor, goes to the trial of Tom Robinson, a innocent black man, and is attacked on Halloween night. The story has received much popularity, and has since then been made into a movie. Although the book and the movie follow the same general plot, the book contains many important events missing from the movie that lead to the character development of the main character, Scout.
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For that, Welty needs exemplification. When coupled with the diction, exemplification serves as the main device implemented merging her experiences into a essay the explains the her relationship with fiction, and reading as a whole. Welty is a storyteller and she uses her skill to craft the narrative that describe her relationship with fiction. She describes the near mythological terror of the minotaur of the librarian, Ms. Jackson, who guarded the labyrinthian library of her hometown. She reminisces over the titles countless books she inhaled, two by two, as she rushed, back and forth, day after day, to the library for more. She speaks of her mother, who shared that same joy of reading, and who also enabled her to get her first library card. She illustrates about how books were ever present in her house. It’s through this exemplification and description that Welty is able to justify to the reader why books had such an intense role in her life, and why reading has held such value to her. Books were everywhere, they permeated her childhood. The effect of her vivid descriptions are that the reader and the author's perspective are merged. Rather than reading than reading the text, the reader experience’s it, and it's through the shared viewpoint that reader is able to realize the intensity and value reading brought to Welty’s
The complication between characters is especially shown in Anna and Sarah’s relationship. In the movie Anna is mad about Sarah coming to stay for a month. However, in the book she says “I wished everything was as perfect as the stone. I wished that Papa and Caleb and I were perfect for Sarah” (21). In the book Anna has no trouble liking Sarah, but in the movie Anna has a hard time letting go of her real mother and will not let Sarah get close to her. It is not until Sarah comforts Anna after a bad dream and tells her “when I was ten my mamma died” (which was not told in the book) that Sarah and Anna have a close relationship. After Sarah and Anna reach an understanding, Sarah tries to help Anna remember her mother by putting her mother’s candlesticks, quilt, a painting, and her picture back into the house. They also put flowers on her grave together. However, Anna and Sarah’s relationship is not the only one that takes a while to develop.
In writing the point of view of the story can alter what the reader is able to pick up on and comprehend. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the first person narrative changes what the reader can perceive. The novel is narrated in the voice of a maturing girl. The only thing the reader is able to know is what Scout hears and thinks. In this novel Scout’s first person narrative alters how the reader views characters such as Mrs. Dubose and Boo Radley and also gives a limited view of the night Bob Ewell attacks the children.
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.
There were many differences in the characters' relationships with each other. For instance, Heather and Melinda’s connection were very different from book to film.
The theme of a novel can change the complete meaning of the story for each individual reader. If one person reads a book and he/she thinks that the book's main them...
The movie lacks a lot of insight onto the other characters in the book, it mostly focuses on Ponyboy. For example, in the movie there was a lack of detail on characters such as Darry and Sodapop even Dally. Dally was a major character in the book but his death in the movie seemed a bit minor because there wasn’t much detail for viewers to get attached to his character. I felt as if his death was glazed over and easily forgotten in the movie while in the book it was described for at least two pages.
The first and most obvious way in which the story was modernized was in the form of
One thing that can make a book good is characters. In the book, there were many more animals in the farm. The movie did not show many animals except for the main animals. Even thought this is a small difference, it can be noticeable. In the book, Mollie was a character.
...verything around us is made by our actions. Positive or negative they cause an effect that will ultimately lead to a different story base on how we interpret life. Narrative elements are used as a bridge by the directors in their film to create any master plot that is currently known. Any modification at any narrative element used by the director at important moments inside the story can help you portray a different master plot. This used of narrative elements can be best described as an ever changing process that takes place inside an individual’s head. Depending on the individual that may be exposed to those narrative elements can create different meanings. This new interpretation can be different for everyone. We have to be aware that one change in the surface scenery can lead to many ideal outcomes in our minds and that is the main power the audience has.
There is a also the new phenomenon of novelization. When Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations was filmed for the last time so far in 1998, lots of people wanted, as usual, wanted to read the book on which the film based itself. For a number of inexperienced young readers, however, Dickens’ original was too much of a challenge. Intead they chose to read the light version of the story, based on the film screenplay – a so called novelization. Naturally, tjis is a controversial type of novel but some people maintain that sometimes it is a good thing that young people read books at all, and that a light version is far better than no version. In any case, the reading of the novel is stimulated by the film adaptation.