Margot: Comparing The Movie And The Short Story

In the novel, there were two very special characters- Turtle and Sydelle. But in the movie, Ellen Raskins characters do change a bit. In the novel, Turtle Wexler always wears braids. In fact, she kicks people if they pull them. But in the movie Turtle doesn't wear braids, not even once. Also in the book, Sandy Mcsouthers and Turtle had a very close connection in terms of friendship. While in the movie, they argue almost anytime they see each other. On the other hand, Sydelle Pulaski is also very different. Just like how in the novel of The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin makes it very obvious that Sydelle uses crutches for attention. While in the movie, they don’t even mention it once. Also, in the book, Sydelle Pulaski doesn’t carry an animal, but in the movie, Sydelle carries a dog everywhere. Also in the book, Flora Baumbach was like a mother figure to Turtle, but since Flora wasn’t in the movie, Sydelle took her place in that situation. In regards to the characters, Turtle and Sydelle are very

However, there are just as many differences between the novel and the film. For example, at the end of the novel, Melinda tells Mr. Freeman about what happened to her. In the movie, she tells her mother about the incident. This affected the relationship between Melinda and her mother as portrayed in the novel. Their relationship in the novel was not very close at all. It would’ve been very shocking if at the end of the novel, Melinda told her mother about how she was raped.

The first difference that caught my eye was how there was no cat, in the book there was a cat named, Sammie, and Sammie always got stuck in one of Billy’s traps. But in the movie

Although the plot of both the novel and the movie are the same, there were several differences which separate the movie from the book. For instance, the novel gives us a thorough explanation about what Mr Harvey did to Susie while they were in the shed. The beginning of the book explains that Mr Harvey raped her before he killed her; however, the movie gives no explanation about how he murdered Susie . The director purposely left out the information in the movie because he knew that it would be too much for the viewers to handle. Besides the occasional hints about how she died no further

The book, Tuesdays with Morrie and the movie were both had the same characterization of Mitch and Morrie. Mitch was at first consumed into his job. He also lost faith in his dream to play the piano as a professional, he also was a very self centered man. But throughout the story he begins to change. He realizes that he is missing out on life.

One way the story is different from the movie is that the story is very descriptive of characters and

Characters in the book and movie are mostly the same to each other. For example, Mildred/Linda and Clarisse are almost exactly the same to their character in the movie and book. Clarisse is still curious and imaginative while, Mildred/Linda is still shallow. In the

     In the film, it shows more of the school and the children then it does in the short story. The radio is also more involved in the short story then it is in the film.

I found it interesting how they changed who narrated the story. In the book, the narration was done in more of the author’s POV (Point Of View), while in the movie it was done in Mary’s POV. This was confirmed by this fraise, “My name in Mary Lenox…” in the beginning of the film. In my opinion this was not

    Since the movie had more detail it added way more characters than the short story. In the short story there were only two characters which included

I think that Margot from “All Summer in a Day” is knowledgeable because she knows a lot about the sun. “They were all nine years old, and if there had been a day, seven years ago, when the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world, they could not recall.” Margot was knew at her school and she remembered the sun when the other kids could not and margot could explain what the sun looked like to them and some of the kids didn't believe her, this makes her knowledgeable because she knows how the kids will most likely react to the sun. “She knew they thought they remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands.” Margot knew that the kids tried to remember the sun and she also knew that they thought that they remembered but margot knew they didn't because of the way they described it. “They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and

Another differences between the short story and the film was that in “Killings” the story started off at Frank funeral and later flashback of what had occurred. In the film In the Bedroom the story started from the beginning with Frank and his lover Natalie running in a field, which kind of made the story plot go in chronological order.

In the movie, Elizabeth is seen as rude and ill-tempered, in contrast to Elizabeth in the book who is seen as having a good sense of humor and being an intelligent woman. Because Elizabeth's characteristic are different between the movie and the novel, the family relations are very different in the movie. For example, in the novel, Jane and Elizabeth have very few secrets between them, if any at all. They share all the details of their lives, everything they have going through their minds, they share their hopes and dream and plan their futures together. However, in the movie they keep a lot of secrets from one another and rarely share anything of the sorts.

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

In the book, the text speaks for Minnie in ways that she cannot speak for herself which leaves the reader to fill in the gaps; however, viewers get no sense of this in the film, where what happens is taken at surface value.