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The Great Depression Movie Vs Book

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In my sixteen years of living, throughout my life, I’ve mostly been told that that the book is better than the movie. From Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, most readers tend to feel that the book is able to capture more. More description, more development, more dynamic, they would say, just to name a few. Now I’d never really fallen into that presumption, as I prefer to give each book and movie separate chances and never truly compare the two. Until I read It’s Kind of a Funny Story. Modeled after his own experiences, the late Ned Vizzini wrote about a boy name Craig Gilner and his struggles with depression. Fortunately, this wasn’t a foreign topic to me. Through reading this book I was able to compare his depression to the depression experienced throughout The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman). Having this previous experience, on depression not only helped me better dissect and understand Craig, as a character, but also modernized the ideas discussed in The Yellow Wallpaper. …show more content…

Personally, I found Vizzini’s character development to be extremely effective. By including flashbacks of Craig’s life, I was able to see how different events led up to the current day Craig. Doing this, made me understand, why Craig felt certain emotions stronger than others. For example, throughout the novel Craig was often stressed with typical teenage issues such as schoolwork and maintaining friendships. He never truly had an outlet for his emotions. Through flashbacks, and explaining his childhood love for mapmaking, Vizzini was able to create a critical literary effect, as Craig’s childhood passions ultimately proved as his

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