In The Small Assassin, Alice creates a baby with David that continuously brings them constant fear. Alice claims that this baby is out to kill her. She tries to convince David and Doctor Jeffers that this is truly happening, but no one completely believes her until someone gets hurt because of it. Between The Small Assassin short story, and film, there are many things alike, but many differences also appear throughout both. The first difference between the short story and the film is that they start out in different ways. The short story starts with Alice in the hospital after delivering her first child. The thought that continuously runs through her head is that she is being murdered, and supposedly, according to Doctor Jeffers, she clearly shows this during her delivery. When she first has the baby, she asks David if he would like to meet the murderer. After this, Doctor Jeffers waited for David the day that he came to take his wife and new child home. Jeffers asked David if the baby was a ‘wanted’ child, and David responded with …show more content…
In the short story, David walks in the door, coming home from work, to find Alice lying at the bottom of the stairs. She had tripped on the baby toy, causing her to fall down the stairs and die. After Alice had died and David had realized that she was right all along about the baby, Doctor Jeffers gave him sedative to knock him out for a long time. Later the next day, Doctor Jeffers went to check on David and found him dead in his bed, due to a gas leak in their house. In the film, Doctor Jeffers walks in the door to find David lying on the floor at the bottom of the steps. He had tripped over the baby toy, fallen down the steps, and died. After he found David lying at the bottom of the steps, he walked upstairs in hopes to find Alice. Alice was laying in the bed dead, and had been electrocuted while she was asleep in her
The subject of the book “The Midnight Assassin” by Skip Hollandsworth is focused on uncovering the truth behind who is truly at fault for the murders of Mollie Smith and, several other victims. The murders occurred in Austin, Texas during the 19th century. Based on the first three chapters, three prominent characters have been introduced. All three characters are currently prime suspects. At the time, Austin was a prestigious town, equipped with the finest law enforcement made first hand by god himself, the Texas Rangers. When the young yellow skinned slave Mollie Smith was murdered, terror truly struck Austin. News reporters from all over Texas came to cover the story, thus creating conspiracies about each suspect. Evaluation of each suspect and their motives to perpetrate such a gruesome murder-Walter Spencer, a hardworking slave, who had never done any harm; Tom Chalmers, the brother of the land owner where the murder took place; Lastly, Dr. Ralph Steiner, the esteemed doctor.
These two stories were also very different, they were written in different views. The second story was written in first person, it told a story about a past experience. The first story was very general, it related to many women readers,
In some ways both short stories were written with some similarities in mind. In both of the short stories that were told there was a death taken place which is a sad thing in stories that could affect the mood of the reader. After the death there is someone to clean it up and keep it secret so no one would know In both of the stories there is unique writing styles used to add effect to the story. These are some of the things that were used in both stories that kind of put them together as
The opening scene has Alice drinking and the film continues from there to focus on the alcohol. The scenarios of the mother’s slide to the bottom include incidents like that of: egging the neighbor’s car who’s alarm keeps going off, falling out of the boat on their trip to Mexico, and the night that she locks herself out of the house because she was throwing her “evidence” bottle away. These episodes reflect not only that the problem is getting worse, but that he is enabling/ accepting it.
The characters are totally different in the two versions. The short story’s main characters are a family; a husband, a wife, and two children. The film’s characters are a woman and a man, and the man’s mother and younger sister.
First, the characters, in this story they’re five main characters, one of them being George Hadley, the father, George is striker in the story and consistent with his decision, and Lydia Hadley, the mother was really paranoid but became more laid back towards the end. In the movie though they switched roles. George was not consistent with his decisions and was very easygoing at the start of
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.
One of the differences is the father. In the short story the father is not involved in Connie’s life as much as he should be. “Their father was away at work most of the time and when he came home he wanted supper and he read the newspaper at supper and after supper he went to bed. He did not t bother talking much to them” (Oates 1). They changed in role in the movie. He is more involved in her life in the movie. He talks to Connie about her and her mother's relationship, he is concerned about Connie being on the side of the road, and he tried to steer Connie in the right direction.
The Blind Assassin is a story about reflecting on the past. Iris Chase-Griffen, an elderly widow, lives in a modest home in southern Canada. As she lives out the final days of her life at her house, Iris handwrites a personal memoir depicting the haunting events of her past as the wife of a distinguished politician and businessman in the early 1900s. Iris was pressured by her father to marry the wealthy Richard Griffen after the Great Depression devastated her family’s business. Soon after Iris weds, her father dies, leaving Iris and her younger sister Laura to the luxurious tyranny of life with Richard. Iris engages in an affair with Alex Thomas, a unionist on the run and friend of the sisters, to escape from what became a restrictive, abusive marriage to Richard, but Richard sends Laura off to a mental institution after she rebels against him, and Alex dies in World War II. After the war ends Iris reveals her affair and Alex’s death to Laura, who apparently had feelings for him as well, prompting Laura to commit suicide. Later, Iris learns that Richard had been raping Laura during most of her marriage, which Laura silently endured to keep Richard from turning Alex in like he threatened. Ever since, Iris has kept the truth about her marriage and her culpability in her sister’s death secret. Iris reveals in her narrative the truth that had been hidden from the public for so long, struggling with her repressed guilt and painful memories to find some sort of reconciliation.
One way the story is different from the movie is that the story is very descriptive of characters and
“She thinks of when she fought a flood…There are some things a bushwoman just cannot do… she cried then.” The woman crying shapes our understanding of her mental strength, after everything living in the bush has thrown at her, being reduced to tears and physically beaten she stays strong. Willing to endure even more the environment can throw at her. Burton also uses flashbacks to add depth to Alice’s character; the flashbacks are symbolic of the decline in her imagination, her willingness to try the ‘impossible’ and a symbol of her conformity. These flashbacks are also a sad reminder of the passing of her father; he was one to encourage the use of her imagination and believing in impossible things. Her current adventure in Underland is very different to the first because she has forgotten to believe in the impossible; once she crosses this barrier Absolum confesses she is again the ‘real Alice’.
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This screenplay follows the protagonist Alice Howland, who is a professor of linguistics at Columbia University. Alice Howland is later diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, which turns her world completely upside down; especially given her career and ambitious nature. She becomes unable to perform normal everyday activities, and struggles with the loss of her independence. Alice’s husband, John, who is a physician, attempts to act as a guide for her through this time, but it ultimately puts a strain on their relationship. John’s job offer to move to Boston does not help matters either, and it quickly becomes the last straw for the two of them. He soon moves to New York to take the job after Alice’s memory starts to decay at a faster rate. John and Alice have 3 children, Lydia, Anna, and Tom as well as a son-in-law, Charlie. They are introduced at the beginning of the screenplay, as they all gather to celebrate Alice’s 50th birthday at a restaurant. This is also the time in which the audience notices her decline in normal conversation as she is unable to follow smoothly. Alice could be considered the catalytic hero of this screenplay, and the disease being the antagonist. Alice wants to hold on to as much of her memory that she can, and slow the regression by writing down everything. By Act 3, Alice loses her ability to do activities that she had been doing for many years; such as going out for her morning run without getting lost, remembering words, phrases, and
Reading the short story “Killings” and watching the film In the Bedroom I noticed many differences between the two. For example in the short story “Killings” Matt and Ruth had 3 kids and some grandchildren. In the film In the Bedroom Frank was the only child. I believe the direction Todd Field made this change because he wanted us to focus on the idea of how painful it to lose a child, and how it can affect the relationship between the parents. I honestly thought that was really smart of the director to do since it made us feel how hard it most of been for Matt and Ruth to lose their only child. And how losing Frank made their love for each other kind of disappear.