In Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones", she exhibits the experience of grief, loss, and acceptance. Throughout the book, all the characters experience these emotions through different ways and learn to cope with them. The way Peter Jackson captured all the emotions from the book and incorporated it into the movie was a job well done. When watching the movie you can tell that the characters are in grief and in pain. Although they had the same feeling and emotion, some events were different. There were quite a few differences between the book and the movie and some similarities.
One difference between the book and the movie is the way that Susie acts. In the book, she acts like a little girl and as if she doesn't have much experience in the real world and with predators. In the book if they hadn't mentioned how old she was I would have guessed she was
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younger than ten years old. In the movie, Susie acts like a grown woman. She takes care of her siblings and cleans the house. Another difference in the book was Holiday, Susie’s dog who finds Susie’s elbow and brings it back to their house.
That gives Mr. Fenerman, the detective in charge of Susie's case, a clue to figure out how she disappeared. In the movie, Holiday doesn't find the elbow nor does the elbow even come up. The way that the Salmon family gets a lead on how Susie disappeared is when Mr. Salmon gets a “message” from Susie saying that it was Mr. Harvey who killed her. From there everything just went downhill for Mr. Harvey.
A similarity between the book and the movie is the way that Lindsay, Susie sister, acted. In the book and the movie, Lindsay shows compassion to her family, dedication to finding who killed her sister. Within all of the emotions and actions showed by her throughout the book and the movie you can tell that she loves and cares for her sister very much. Lindsay is the hero of the story in the book and the movie because she is the one who had the courage to break into Mr. Harvey’s house and find something that had to do with Susie’s disappearance. When she did, it was enough information to prove Mr. Harvey
guilty. Throughout the novel, grievance seems to be the reoccurring theme. Although all of them experience loss, some learn to cope with it earlier than others. Some of them choose to not move on and continue to live in the past. The way that Sebold incorporated these strong emotions for readers, allowed them to feel as if they were really in the story. Despite the differences between the movie and the book, they both had the same moral, everyone experiences grief, some better than others.
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...
There are many differences in the movie that were not in the book. In the movie there is a new character in the movie that was not in the book. This character was David Isay.
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...
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.
The movie, unlike the book, starts in chronological order. The book starts from Susie’s death and then flashbacks to what happened before. Another difference is that the bracelet charm in the movie is not the Pennsylvania keystone, but a house. Also, even though some things happen in both, book and movie, not every time the reasons are the same. For example
In the movie, it is told in a third person point of view and the characters look a lot more different than how they do in the book. The movie goes by much quicker than the book. Also Pony goes straight home after the church burns down.
Though the events and a lot of the dialogue are the same in both the book and the movie the crux of the two are completely different. The book focuses a lot more on sexual tension and sexual exploration. The...
When you get to the beginning, middle, or end u realize they are both very different. The movie and book have a lot in common like they both have the same characters .
The Lovely Bones’s combination of themes work together to expose the raw emotion of a family in pain over the death of a precious loved one. The first and most significant theme to be presented in the novel is that of mortality. Throughout the novel, as Susie looks back over her violent death and its effects on her family, she makes a point that when someone dies, that person's desires and needs pass over with them into the afterlife (Thomas). For example, from watching her sister and Ruth Connor, she realizes that the concept of love is something she still wishes she could have, even in heaven. Her sister Lindsey meets a boy by the name of Samuel, and Ruth grows closer to Susie's first real crush, Ray Singh. These observations by Susie almost
...rtrayed differently in the movie. Lennie is shown as being very mentally challenged, whereas in the book he is just a little slow and has a mind of a young child. Although some changes are made in the movie to make it flow better, it is still based on the same story as the book. The movie has the same plot line and characters, and some of the scenes are told in the exact same way as they are in the novel. As well, the movie and the book give out the same themes. This story is about how all the people in the Great Depression were trying to escape their unhappy, lonely lives, but weren’t capable of doing so. The movie stays very true to the book even though some things are removed or added. Everything that is added or changed still works very well and captures the film perfectly.
There are many differences and similarities in the book, movie, and both. The book is some what different from the movie. There are many differences between the book and the movie. Like when PonyBoy and Johnny went to the movie theater Pony wished that he was big and buff like the guy in the movie.
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things” (Theodore Roosevelt). Everything that occurs in your life before death is inevitable. Whether it is the loss of innocence, a loved one, or a possession, there is nothing that can be done to change the past. Thus, it makes little sense to dwell negatively on those past events. This proves true in Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones, a novel based on a true story. The protagonist and narrator is Susie Salmon, a curious and loving fourteen year old girl. The novel starts with Susie retelling her dreadful? encounter that happened on December 6, 1973. With vivid and horrifying descriptions, she explains events leading up to her
Each version also has the main characters boarding up the windows. Anyone who thought the birds won’t attack are usually found dead, but in the movie they are found with their eyes pecked out. Also, both the story and the movie have REALLY bad endings! They aren’t very similar, but they both leave you hanging. When you see a movie or read a book you want to know what happens to the main characters. In these two, you didn’t get an ending. They left you hanging and for some people that ruins it all.
..., the film portrayed the kids being overly whelmed with hatred when they received gifts from their parents. It was like they never knew their parents existed. Another example of the difference between the book and the movie is Mr. Freeman (mother’s boyfriend) was presented as being very reserved with the children. In the movie he was seen as warm, talkative, and friendly towards Maya and her brother. The film also showed Mr. Freeman’s manly behavior by confronting Vivian (Maya’s mother) at her job. However, in the book Mr. Freeman never left the house, he always sat and waited at home for her.
Though very similar, the movie gives the themes something more. The way they approach a situation and how they show the symbols seem to relate the message clearer. The book does the same but some parts may not be as specific and relatable as the movie. But, both contain the two most important symbols, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg and Owl Eyes. Without these two symbols, both the book and the movie would be impacted for the worst and leave major themes out of the storyline.