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Compare And Contrast Johnny Tremain

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The book Johnny Tremain, and the Disney Movie Johnny Tremain have many similarities and differences. Although the movie moves along the story in a timely manner, I would have enjoyed seeing little Isannah running around the Lapham household. Or maybe Dove mocking Johnny. The fact that Dove didn't burn Johnny’s hand, or that Isannah didn't make an appearance once, made me really dislike the movie. But I did like that Johnny’s hand was burnt in both. Here I have given reasoning as to the reasons why I liked and disliked the movie.

A big difference I noticed in the beginning of the movie was instead of Dove, Mrs. Lapham burned Johnny’s hand. In the book there is a boy named Dove who Johnny doesn’t get along with very well. When Johnny is making the sugar basin he asks Dove for a crubrical. But, Dove purposely grabs the cracked crubrical and when Johnny starts to use it, he burns his hand. While in the movie Mrs. Lapham trip’s onto Johnny, thus causing him to fall and burn his hand on the liquid silver. I think that Dove helped bring out the childish version of Johnny. Without Dove Johnny didn’t really have anything to …show more content…

Isannah was the youngest sister of the Lapham household. She really helped bring out the motherly, caring side of Cilla. Without her, Cilla will never feel the sorrow she felt when Isannah choose Lavinia Lyte over Cilla, who devoted all her time and care to Isannah. But the most important thing i missed was Isannah didn’t save Johnny in court. In the book she ran into the courtroom and her beauty help Johnny win the case, It shows that bond of friendship and compassion that couldn’t be broken over a burnt hand. But since Isannah wasn’t in the movie Cilla is the one who saves him but in a little different way, she was his witness and her testimony saved him. It was more realistic but I wish they could’ve incorporated that compassion, friendship, and acceptance shown in the

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