Compare And Contrast Essay On The Birds

The Birds

It’s not common for birds to attack humans, right? Alfred Hitchcock’s based his movie The Birds on Daphne du Maurier's story, but still there are many differences. Between these two stories the birds were attacking small towns, but both ended up having different endings. One story ended up having a family live happily ever after, and the other ended up having a twisted ending.

Unlike Daphne du Maurier’s story the movie takes place in the 1960s on the coast of California in Bodega Bay. It was described as a small town where everybody knows everybody. In the story it starts off on December 3rd and was in the 1950s time period. In the story they lived in a old farm house and didn’t have that many neighbors. The characters in the movie were Melanie Daniels, Mitch, Lydia, Cathy Brenner, and Annie Hayworth. Annie Hayworth was the only school teacher in Bodega Bay and ended up getting killed by the birds that attacked her. Mitch, Cathy, and Lydia Brenner was the family that lived across the lake in Bodega Bay. Mitch and Cathy were brother and sister and Lydia was the mom, that didn’t want to live alone.

Although, Melanie Daniels started having a relationship with Mitch Brenner and Lydia became worried because she didn’t want to lose her son and have him move out, but they ended up becoming a family.

In the story there was only Jill, Nat, The Wife, and Johnny Hockins. Nat and The Wife were the two parents of Jill and Johnny Hockins. Alfred Hitchcock changed the characters and moved the story to take place in America, so he and other people could personally connect to the story. Hitchcock changed the characters and create a romance between Melanie Daniels and Mitch Brenner. Even though the stories have many differences Hitchcock made it similar in some

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they started noticing weird things happening when the bird pecked Melanie Daniels in the head while she was riding the boat across the lake back to town. Similarly to the birds circling the farmer on the tractor, but didn’t peck at the farmer's head. When Melanie and Mitch first met they were in a bird store. Mitch was looking for love birds for his sister Cathy’s birthday. Melanie delivered the birds to his house and that’s when the bird attacks started to occur.
Likewise, the birds started to attack in the story after they made their first presents clear by flying in different flocks and circling people heads. Similarly, in the story and movie Nat and Mitch boarded up the windows and doors and moved furniture around to block off the birds entry. When the children got attacked by the birds it relates to when Melanie Daniels got attacked by the birds in the movie. Another thing that happened in the story that happened in the movie was birds flying in different flocks. In contrast, in the story it ended with a empty burning cigarette package. The movie ended with the Brenner’s and Melanie Daniels driving off.
Even though the stories were based off the same thing they had many differences. In some parts of the stories they relate, but in others they don’t. Now that you’ve learned more about this book it many influence you to read more about it. You never really hear about any bird attacks, but when you do they are very serious. I learned a lot about comparing and contrasting in this essay, and I hope you did too. I recommend for others to read this book because it’s very entertaining and has very good detail.