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

see the boys changing and the way they act with each other. Also, from the beginning of the book to the beginning of the movie there is already a difference. Books and movies are often very different, but they get the same point across most of the time.
When you compare the book to the movie you can spot differences between the two of them.

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

shell.
There can be sometimes where the movie and book do not match up at all. In the movie, there is the captain of the plane on the island and in the book, there were no grownups. In the book, it says “Aren’t there any grownups at all?” “I don’t think so.” (Golding 8) and in the movie, you saw all the boys helping the pilot and making sure he would be okay. This difference in the book is a big deal because in the book they were living by themselves with no adults. We were reading how they surviving without adults and in the moving, you could see a sick adult. Even though in the movie the adult gets killed they still had an adult around for a while. The movies have different ways of showing how they survived without an adult and in the moving they showed them killing him because they have mistaken the adult for a “beastie”. They got the same point across just showed a different version of how they were surviving without an adult.
Lastly, one difference in between the movie and the book is the very end.

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

same.
In the reading of the Lord of the Flies, you can see the difference between the book and the movie. There were quite a few examples of some differences that definitely would stand out if you read the book and watched the movie. These are some examples of the main things that were different from the book were: all the boys did not come on a raft with each other to the island, there were no adults, and Ralph did talk to the officer. When you read books then watch the book’s movie, you will be able to spot some differences between the two of them. The books put more detail in them compared to the movies. These differences can be very small or very big but most movies are not exactly the same as the book. No movie will be the exact same as the book.