If I Stay Book Vs Movie Essay

Many people may agree that the movie was better, but personally, i think the book was better. The book let your imagination go wild, but the movie just held your imagination back by showing you the scene on a screen. Unlike the movie, the book gave a more vivid description of “The Tell Tale Heart” by telling you every single detail. That is why I think the book was more enjoyable to read instead, of watching the movie.

Comparing the book to the movie you can clearly tell what certain things are different. For example, Sydelle Pulaski worked for Mr. Westing in the movie but only talked over the intercom. This not only caused a lot of drama but more depth to the plot. Also, Crow didn’t go to jail but they did talk about most of the consequences of her going to jail. This made a little bit more serious and emotional instead of just letting it go.

Normally, when a movie is made about a story in a book the two stories are not exactly the same. The movie is adjusted by adding small details or leaving out some parts in order to make the story more

Despite having many differences the film remains faithful in capturing the novel and putting on film. While one may not get everything from the movie as from the book, the majority of it is there. So for die hard fans of the book there is no need for disappointment. All the main parts of the book are there, the characters, the plot, the setting

The perception that the novel is usually better than the movie version in this case is true; I preferred reading the novel over watching the movie. The novel

Finally there are lots of differences between the book and the movie. They also show that the movie was a lot weaker then then the book. I can see the movies aren't always better than the books. The books go more into detail than the movie. I enjoined the movie because it is more visual. The book was a little

I didn’t pick the book over the movie because I think books are boring. When you are watching the movie you don’t have to use your brain that much. When I’m watching a movie about any type of genre that has a book that goes with it, I usually ask questions to myself (in my head) about

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.

For instance, the book talks about how the greasers felt and how their feelings were, then in the movie, it didnt talk about it but it showed it. The way that they showed it was not as good as it was written. When reading we don't fall in love with the characters' appearance. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their soul. In movies we focus more on appearance and what's going on in the background, which then gets people distracted from what the character is feeling and their thoughts. On the other hand, you can see the actions of the characters in the movie, which might help you process the way they act, however with the book the author can use what he thinks and try to give people a general idea of everything. For an example in the book it talks about how Randy

The ending is probably the biggest difference between the novel and the film. The book contains an episode

The movie is better than the book because the book has too many unnecessary details. The movie is much easier on the viewer because the book is filled with unnecessary characters. While Mia is unconscious, she has flashbacks to the time her family attended a friend's funeral “We were crying, even me, who didn’t know Kerry all that well.”(173). The funeral had no relevance to the story at all.

Have you ever seen or heard about a car accident? Do you know anyone that’s lost family because of one? Well there is a book and a movie called if i stay, and the main character Mia gets into a horrific car accident she’s is left in a coma with the choice to stay or not to stay. She is having an outer body experience, and can see, and hear everything that has been happening. I personally think the book is better with giving the detail, and I can picture what the characters for myself look like, not what the movie has picked for actors.

There are times when the film adaptation of a novel misses the ability to bring the full story to life. This is not the case, however, when it comes to the movie, Stand by Me. Although, there are some obvious differences, this novel and movie adaptation complements each other very well. Based upon the novel, The Body, Stand by Me encapsulates the messages of friendship, loyalty, and maturation that the novel vividly depicts through its writing.

As the scenes are being described, remember that Mia is not really awake and walking around, it is just her subconscious. There are two scenes in the movie that express her subconscious state dramatically in their own ways. For example, Mia is wandering the hospital halls in her subconscious state and sees family rushing from the elevator towards the nurses station to ask if Mia and her family are okay. This is when Mia finds out her brother, Teddy, has died. Mia, in shock, runs through the halls crying. The camera is rushing through the busy halls and starts to blur when Mia falls to her knees in heartbreak. Suddenly, the halls are cleared and quiet as Mia sees a white light at the end of the hallway. The empty halls indicates that Mia feels nothing but emptiness and no longer wants to fight to live because she sees the white light, indicating heaven. This all changes when she hears the elevator door open and there is Adam rushing in. In this upcoming scene, Mia follows Adam back to her room. The expression on his face shows that he is in complete shock and is heartbroken. There is a quiet tone in the room as Adam sits down next to Mia and begins to whisper. Adam talks about Mia’s dream of being accepted into Juilliard, and how of an amazing person and cello player Mia is. The camera is steady and goes back and forth between both characters

I did watch the movie to If I Stay, and a lot of the simple details, and symbols are changed. For example, on Halloween in the movie, Mia wore a black rocker chick wig, but in the book she wore a blonde wig, which was also a symbol. I highly recommend reading the book first and the book was better anyway. As you can see, my predictions were also pretty close, and this book was a great read. Mia is a great main character, shown by her three symbols, coffee, her cello, and the blonde wig she wore on Halloween. Theme of choices and love is also very strong. I love how Gayle Forman told this story, and I’m very happy I chose this as my summer reading.