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Mary Lenox: Comparing The Book And Movie

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To start off, this is a compare and contrast report meaning I will be describing what I felt was different, what was the same, and my opinion on the matter. So, here it goes.
In the book Mary’s parents died in a different way than the movie. In the book, her parents died from a very deadly disease. However, in the movie, it was reviled that they instead died in an earthquake. I don’t think this is a huge change, but it was notable enough.
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 …show more content…

I truly feel this was a much better choice because, like I said before, it wasn’t really that logical to have the robin know where the key is. It is a lot easier to remember where a big hidden door is than the hidden key to that door. Maybe some one has a different reasoning, but that’s just my opinion.
Also, speaking of the robin, in the movie he doesn’t make a big appearance. Yes he is there, but in the book he is made out to be almost a main character, and a close companion to Mary. Yes it is said that he does become a friend of Mary, but after that you don’t see much of him. Not until spring that is. I really wish they had used more of him in the movie.
You know, talking about Mary reminds me of something about her. In the book she is made to be incredibly sickly, yellow skinned, week hair, and never outside. Yet, when we see her in the movie, she looks quite healthy. Her hair was a bit thin, but she really would just need to be outside a little bit to take care of that. That’s another thing about her I found different. We see in the movie she does go outside, still not that much, but still, they make you think she does go outside. Like I said, she looked a lot healthier than they make her out to be. I really found it weird, but it didn’t affect the story too …show more content…

Medlock came to get her. That was the part where Mary got the song “Mistress Mary quite contrary” from. I remember how much she hated that song. They cut that part out of the movie; I feel they could have used that scene to explain some things to the audience who watch the movie and haven’t read the book.
It seemed as soon as Mary arrived at the manor in the movie she started to hear Colin’s weeping. In the book it wasn’t until near the middle of it that we hear the author even mention the weeping. They did keep, however, the way Mary and Colin meet the same, and how the staff tried to keep him a secret. That’s for a different report though. In my opinion, this did add to the suspense in the story, but I’m torn between if this was a good change or a bad one. Ehhh, I guess it doesn’t matter too much anyway.
Back on track, another thing I found interesting is the fact that they left out Martha’s, Mrs. Medlock‘s servant, they left out her mother in the movie. She was only mentioned once in the whole movie, while in the book she was one of the biggest side characters. She was even the one who got Mary the skipping rope. While in the movie the person who gave the gift was never given credit. Mary did say something like “Bless your mother…” to Martha, but other than that I don’t recall any other mention of her

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