Essay about Band of Brother Comparison Book/Miniseries

The book Brotherband: The Outcasts by John Flanagan is about a kid called Hal who joined a group of Viking warriors called The Brotherband for a group challenge. The genre of this book is a historical fiction, because it takes place during the Viking ages. The book takes a third person omniscient.

The book and the movie of the Outsiders are two very different stories. The book has so much more detail then the movie. The movie is not the most detailed but it does get its point across. There are may similarities and also many differences between the two the book is by far more interesting and more detailed then the movie. I enjoyed the book a lot and the movies a lot but the movie was missing a lot.

After reading William Faulkner’s Barn Burning and watching Martin Ritt’s, The Long, Hot Summer, I noticed similarities but mainly differences between the film and the story. Although the film is not entirely based on the novel, the novel serves as the basic framework for the film. Both the film and the story shared the same theme, but differ in the actual story itself and how they portrayed the theme.

The Canadian short stories “Brother Dear” by Bernice Friesen and “The Charmer” written by Budge Wilson focus on the struggles and common conflicts between parents and their children during adolescence. Both stories are told in the younger sister’s point of view and show how everyone matures and gains independence throughout and at the end of the story. Friesen and Wilson’s short stories over all focus mainly on the theme of dysfunctional families; which can be represented through the characters, symbolism, and conflict in the stories.

The movie is mainly about a group of men going into war in order to fight for their motherland, “Germany”. The setting mainly takes place between the warfront and the camp where Paul Baumer, one of the main characters, stays.

there, a prisoner escaped from the concentration camp, and ten people in a group were

Ellis, Joseph J. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Print.

impacts on the soldiers. This novel depicts the life as a soldier in the German Army fighting

It is obvious from the opening chapter that this novel will center on the war and the effects it has on a young group of soldiers, none of them more than twenty years of age. They are all friends and former classmates of Paul Baumer, the narrator and protagonist of the book; they have enlisted in the German infantry because their teacher, Kantorek, had painted for them a glorious picture of fighting and saving the homeland from destruction during World War I. In this first chapter, Baumer and his friends are away from the front lines, relaxing a bit after two weeks of fierce fighting. As each of the young men is introduced, it is apparent that they are tired, hungry, angry, and disillusioned over the war.

The series follows the formation, training and combat action of Easy Company (506th Infantry, 101st Airborne). The story starts in Camp Toccoa, Georgia then follows the company in England, France, Belgium, Germany and eventually Austria. There are hundreds of men in the company but the series focuses on roughly two dozen men. The research for the movie was based primarily off of Ambrose’s book as well as from interviews conducted with living members of Easy Company. When you watch the film, you might notice it draws a strong comparison to Saving

The brutality of the SS troops could be seen when the first load of prisoners arrived. The prisoners were screaming for air and water,

Douglas Brinkley uses several testimonies from the men who fought with Companies D, E, and F. These testimonies really bring the book alive, and it helps to tell the tail and connect the reader to the events. The descriptive tools used by Brinkley display a mental picture that is very detailed. These words are often used when Brinkley’s works, and he is a renowned

For the past few weeks, I have analyzed the storytelling style of the book and film Big Fish. The biggest difference I noticed was that I thought that the book focused more on the telling of Edwards inane stories, while the film was mostly centered around character development and relationships. I also think that while the book was very euphoric and felt like a children’s bedtime story, the film took a much more mystical and mysterious route, where a childish feel was dormant. Lastly, I thought that in the book the author just threw all the stories together and told them

Edward Zwick’s film Defiance is based on the real story of the Jewish Bielski Partisans that fled to the forest during the German occupation of Belorussia in World War Two. The film was praised for shedding light on the little known organization and resistance of Jews against the giant of Nazi Germany. The film used source material from a book by Nechama Tec, Defiance: The Bielski Partisans. The four Bielski brothers are credited with saving nearly twelve thousand Jews by hiding and establishing a community in the wilderness. The surviving brothers later moved to the United States and became truck drivers living out the rest of their lives in relative anonymity. The film takes direct aim at the typical portrayal of European Jews as victims. When a Red Army captain in the film says, “Jews don’t fight,” the leader of the group, Tuvia Bielski, played by Daniel Craig replies, “These Jews do” This is the sort of heavy-handed dialogue that is typical of the film. The film aims to portray the wide variety of experience among Jews and non-Jewish in Eastern Europe in World War II. However, with such a lofty goal the film falls short.

Living in a society where the government is constantly watching and monitoring everything a person does can cause many problems throughout the area. When people living in the area start to realize what the government is doing, they want to take action into their own hands. In the contemporary novel, Little Brother, and in the classic novel, 1984, this in one of the main challenges that the protagonists have to go through and try to figure out how to stop the government.