The Similarities Between 'Kidnapped': Comparing The Book And The Movie

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“Help, Help, Murder!” screamed Davie has he rode away on the boat. He looked at his uncle paddling away with a look of terror. In that second Davie realized he had been kidnapped. Then he felt a shot of fire throughout his body and fell to the ground senseless. Davie is the protagonist in Kidnapped and he was supposed to inherit the estate. On the contrast his uncle, Ebenezer, did not want to give him the estate so he had Davie kidnapped. I am writing this essay to inform you that the movie kidnapped and the book had many differences and similarities. However, the movie was better than the book. The movie Kidnapped was better than the novel because the movie had many more details that the novel lacked. One reason that the movie was better was …show more content…

That was not in the book. That happened during Davies journey to the house of shaws. This supports the fact that the movie was better than the book because it added a little more action on his journey. Another example is that in both the book and the movie Davie went up the dark tower. Nevertheless in the movie Davie actually fell off of the stairs and was hanging on. He managed to pull himself up and he lived. But it was better in the movie because they added something to make it more suspenseful. One difference is that in the movie they had the long mile gang. This made it a little more interesting because they were supposed to be a really tough gang and they were chasing after Davie and Alan. A similarity was that both the book and the movie had Ransome coming to the house and delivering the letter. Even though they both had that, in the movie after Ransome came they carried his uncle on a

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