Pauls Case comparison

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As with almost any written story and movie there are differences, some major and some minor. This is the case with "Paul's Case". The movie has a few new scenes in it, yet the text goes into more detail of what makes Paul tick. Now in both the movie and story Paul starts out at school for a confrontation by his teachers. Paul appears smug in both scenarios. He also was behaving like a somewhat different young boy with his red carnation on his button hole. This demeanor added to his smugness. He bowed a theatrical bow when dismissed and ran with a feeling of lightheartedness to Carnegie Hall where he served as an usher. In both the text and the movie he went up to the art gallery and got lost in the moment and was just about late for work. The text states that Paul teased some of the other boy ushers and they called him crazy and knocked him down and sat on him. This was not in the movie. The rest of the events at Carnegie Hall remained consistent between the movie and the text. Paul had to seat his teacher and then he sat himself and seemed to drift away in his own state of mind while listening to the show. In the text after the concert was over Paul was restless and irritated. He followed the carriage of a performer and day dreamed about walking inside the hotel, basically living in her footsteps. Suddenly the wet rain filling up his shoes brought him back to reality. This was a skipped scene in the movie. Both the movie and text show the nex...

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