This book Coraline is about a girl, the main character, who is obviously, Caroline. She recently moved to a large house and she lives on one flat with her mother and father. They share the house with 3 people, Mrs. Spink & Mrs. Forcible who live together, and Mr. Bobo who lives above them. Coraline finds a door that opens into what used to be another flat but is now covered by bricks completely, and has been since construction. She is very adventurous and while exploring, she saw a mouse go through the door which WAS covered by bricks later that night. She saw that the door was unlocked and the bricks were gone. She went through a tunnel and there was a complete replica of her house. Even her parents and neighbors, looked the exact same except.. they all had button eyes and called themselves the “Other Parents or Other Neighbors.” They were waiting for her when she got there, Coraline LOVED this new house. Her Other Parents gave her everything she didn’t have... well to lure her into staying will them. The Other Mother and Other Father wanted her to stay with them forever, but Coraline knew she had to go back home. Coraline left and went back home but her real parents were gone! She knows the evil Other Mother took them so she goes back and tries to find them. She finds them and brings them back home getting rid of the evil Other Mother and she saves 3 children’s souls too.
The book and movie are alike in many ways. For example, both the book and the movie had the following things identical or very similar: The plot/main event, most characters and their personalities, setting, problem, and resolution. The plot/main was very much similar and kept to almost exact detail. They had almost all of the same character, the most important...
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... even though the movie gave an actual visual, I liked the movie’s description better. I definitely didn’t like the movie part of her crawling through a tunnel to get to the Other House because it specifically said it was a hallway, well the book said that, and the book came out first. I also liked the book better because it kept Wybe out of the story completely, and I think he was unimportant and better kept out of the story. I also think that Coraline’s Other Father having a garden and being able to garden, extremely well, was somewhat a neat idea, but the Other Parents are supposed to be very much like her real parents and her real dad didn’t garden at all, therefore; at that point, the movie failed and the book kept on the right track. From an overall perspective, I loved the story and the ending of the book and movie! I’ll probably go and watch it again tonight!
There are few similarities between the book and the movie. Usually most movies are similar to
Another similarity in the book and movie is that the characters have to go against their morals in order to decide what to do in certain situations. An example of this in the book is when Skip realises he would have to trespass and steal in order for him to keep himself and his friends alive. Or in...
For example, Mama goes to the bank in the movie and is given a hard time about paying her mortgage, but this did not happen in the book. Another major difference is that the school bus scene, where the Logan kids played a trick on the white kids, was not shown in the movie, even though it was an important part of the story. There are some character changes as well. Lillian Jean, Jeremy, R.W, and Melvin are Simms’ in the book, but in the movie they are Kaleb Wallace’s children. However, the main plot difference is how the movie starts in the middle, summarizing everything from the first part of the book very briefly. Additionally, many scenes are switched around and placed out of order. Altogether, the plot and character changes contribute to my unfavorable impression of the
While watching the movie, I could see that the main characters in the book, both their names and traits, were the same in both the movie and book. However, aside from that there were many different as...
The movie and the story had some of the same characters but some weren't exactly the same. The movie introduced many different characters and changed some of the others. For example, the movie had the plant lady and had the mentor of Anderton as the founders of Precrime while in the book, Anderton was the only founder of Precrime. Also, Witwer wasn't blond he had black hair and Kapler wasn't named Kapler he was named Crow. In the story they had the red head Fleming who did not exist
In both the novel and movie focus on the war. The war influences the characters to enroll.Also, the main setting is at the Devon School. However, in the novel Gene visits Leper at his house but in the movie Leper lives in the woods.In the novel Gene is coming back to the Devon School 15 years later.However, in the book he is coming to Devon as a new student.Therefore, similarities and differences exist in time and setting in the novel and the movie.In the novel and the movie there are similarities and differences in events, character, and time and setting.
Three things that were similar and different include the following. In the book it showed they lived in an annex above Mr.Frank's business. In the movie it also showed them hiding in a secret annex above Mr.Frank’s business for hiding from the Nazis so they didn't get caught. Another similarity that happened was Anne and Peter start liking each and visited each other and visited each other in the attic, which was also in the book, along with the movie. There are a lot of similarities that were in the movie and the book, but these are just some of them.
I think that most of the event in the movie were not in the same order that Jeannette had wrote them. After reading the book I had a different picture in mind of how each character would look and it threw me off for the rest of the movie. I did like the fact that I could see what was happening and not just imagine things in my head that I thought was happening, as I was watching the movie I was seeing the same thing everyone else was and not just what I was picturing while reading the
There are many characters from both the movie and the novel that are alike. Siddhartha and Heinrich are both the main characters in which the story revolves around. They both are on a journey and grow throughout their trip. They learn what life truly means to each of them. Govinda and Peter are also two characters that are similar.
Usually movies try to take the story to a different level or by adding parts or just try to change it to a completely different story. Some of the differences between the movie as to the book are some little and large differences. They might also try taking little parts away that will change how the readers see the story characters. An example of that would be Walter not smoking in the movie (Pg 115). Walter usually smokes because he is stressed or just as a way to relax. Walter also does not get punched by Mam...
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.
The movie is, most likely, done well enough to intrigue its intended audience. It captured the theme and story line of the book. It falls short, though, when compared to the beautiful, sensitive and contemplative prose of Natalie Babbitt. One could only hope that a viewing of the film will lead the watcher to try the book and be delighted all the more.
I liked all of the events in the book and how they showed Mattie’s determination to catch her dad’s killer. I did not like the movie because of how they changed some of the main events and how they changed some of the characters in the book. If the movie was just a movie then it would have been a good movie but it was created from a book so I think it should be just like the book.
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.
In most fairy tales, there is a quest structure that the protagonist follows through. The typical quest structure is as followed: an ideal happiness, disruption of the ideal happiness, tasks to reinstate happiness, and finally the reinstating of happiness. The cycle is never broken. In Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, this quest structure is abandoned. Unlike the typical quest structure, the protagonist, Coraline, undergoes a coming of age quest in which the quest structure deviates from the typical structure. Coraline’s quest signifies her coming of age when she overcomes what Freud calls her “infantile complexes,” which then allows her to break the typical quest structure by abandoning her childhood and embracing her adulthood.