Holes Book And Movie Essay

In the Film Holes different filmic conventions are used to portray characters and construct atmosphere. The film is about a young boy named Stanley Yelnats who follows a journey like his great great great grandfather did. He was sent to Camp Green Lakes for a crime that he did not commit and when he arrived at camp he uncovered some of his family secrets. Techniques such as camera angles, sound effects and color constructs the characters and atmosphere in the film which creates the mood.These film codes are very important in the film as they help the viewer understand the story and conventions better.

There are many similarities and some minor differences between the movie, directed by Claude Chabrol, and the short story it is based off of, written by Guy de Maupassant. The plot, setting, and characters are all highly similar in both the story and the film. In both, the plot follows the same scheme, it is set in Paris in the 1880’s, and all of the main characters are the same. The major difference that stood out to me is how these aspects are displayed at the beginning of the narrative.

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.

The third major similarity I noticed between the book and movie version of Holes was at the end of the book when Stanley and Zero found the buried treasure. In the book it was in the last place the boys dug holes. This was the same

Would you like to make ten thousand dollars selling a boat. In hole in my life by Jack Gantos a young boy named Jack makes a fatal mistake of jumping into things for money. Jack grew up in a rather poor neighborhood with next to no education. His impulsive nature and lack of basic knowledge affects all the decisions he makes from start to finish. Jacks poor emotional skills lead him down a crazy dark path. His lack of skills results in bad decisions which get him in with a bad crowd of people. In this group Jack’s judgement is severely clouded and in result he makes a fatal mistake of getting involved with the drug world. Jack’s entry started well but ends up behind bars.

There are many similarities in the book and the movie. One of the Similarities is the allusion “nothing gold can stay” This is significant because this is a poem that ponyboy remembered when he was in the church that was fitting at the time. This poem is saying stay young stay innocent don’t grow up too fast like some of them have had to do. Another allusion that is similar is Gone with the wind. This appeared when Johnny bought a whole bunch of food and things for them when they were in the church. Johnny really wanted to read the book and it meant a lot to him. When he was in the hospital he asked for a copy of the book. The last similarity in the two is that ponyboy is the narrator. It is first person limited and we only get to see how Ponyboy sees the whole situation. We don’t get to see it through any other perspective Both of the book and the movie are set up like this.

The April Morning novel and the movie reveals the same basic story line. In movie, some scenes and characters were cut off from the novel, but overall it gives the same idea as novel. Both the book and movie depicts the story of Adam Cooper who is 15 year old boy at the beginning of the novel but at the end he turns out a man who takes the responsibilities of his family after his father death. Adam lives with his father Moses, mother Sarah, Brother Levi, and grandmother. The book shows the character Levi but not in movie.

The movie Sandlot is based in the 1960s and is narrated through the perspective of Scotty Smalls, he takes you back to his first summer in Los Angeles, California. Scotty lives with his mother and stepfather, Bill, in a new neighborhood, where Smalls struggled to make new friends. One day, Smalls followed a group of boys that lived in his neighborhood and watched them play baseball. As the boys played baseball, Smalls realized they didn’t keep score. Sandlot is what the boys called the field. Even though Smalls wants to join, he is shy because he is afraid of being made fun of since he is inexperienced in the game of baseball. However, he ends up playing with them after mustering up the courage but he fails to catch a fly ball and throw the

In the novel ‘Holes’, Stanley Yelnats has changed physically and mentally during the entire time he was in Camp Green Lake. Stanley was sent to Camp Green Lake due to committing a crime. Their punishment in Camp Green Lake is to dig holes every day in the middle of nowhere were the sun is scorching hot. Stanley used to be overweight, he did not have any friends because he was bullied for his weight

The Notebook, written by Nicolas Sparks, can be named one of the best American romantic novels. The book portrays every trait in a guy or girl would desire to have in a significant other. According to Nicolas Sparks, “it is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, tales that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again”.

One of the main similarities is the narrator being Scout telling the story as her being a young woman. The entire story is her reminiscing from her childhood which is similar to the novel. Scout describes important aspects

“The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback without a head.” Although the movie Sleepy Hollow is based upon the book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, there are also distinctions which allow each to tell their own tale. Washington Irving’s short story inspired Tim Burton’s film but did not limit it. The foundations of the two are much the same but their story lines unfold diversely. Some of the similarities include the setting, characters, and plot points. Two of the many contradicting ideas are the character of Ichabod Crane and the conclusions. The similarities and differences of both accounts can be stated plainly

How can a book and a movie differ if they are telling the same story? Through the analysis of the literary components in the modern selection, the reader concludes the author and producer had much to compare. After evaluating three contemporary selections from Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Katherine Anne Porter, the reader can detect several literary components in the text and the movie to compare and contrast between.

In recent years, it has become popular for many of America's great literary masterpieces to be adapted into film versions. As easy a task as it may sound, there are many problems that can arise from trying to adapt a book into a movie, being that the written word is what makes the novel a literary work of art. Many times, it is hard to express the written word on camera because the words that express so much action and feeling can not always be expressed the same way through pictures and acting. One example of this can be found in the comparison of Ken Kesey's novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the film version directed in 1975 by Milos Forman.

They did it! They finally did it! The wormhole was open and it was stable. The scientists had seconds to celebrate before a figure fell through the wormhole  to the floor of the room. They all leaned over the control pad to look through the bulletproof glass. The figure tried to move, but fell back to the floor.