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The Westing Game Movie And Book Comparison Essay

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Two hundred million dollars,that's what the heirs had a chance of winning if they could solve the puzzle. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is a book full of excitement and mystery. The puzzles and all kinds of clues and very controversial decisions are made. The Westing Game book and movie contain many similarities and differences that are worth staying for.
The novel and the movie are very different,in a unique way. The book is a story where there are 16 heirs and they all tell their own part of the story. The movie only has 10 heirs and Turtle is telling everyone who each heir is. Even though the book and the movie have many differences there are even more similarities.
Sam Westing the only one with four identities,similarities between …show more content…

In the book there was Flora Baumbach but in the movie there isn’t,Sydelle Pulaski kind of took Flora’s job in the movie because Sydelle was a mother like figure and Sydelle wasn’t herself in the book. In the book Sydelle wanted tons of attention and in the movie she really didn’t want that much attention. There was no Theo Theodorakis or D.Denton Deere, Dr.Deere was in the movie for a little bit but didn’t have a big part he only helped Angela when the bomb went off and scraped her face. The setting is even different in both the book and the movie in the book Sunset Towers is a huge brand new building made of glass right over the shores of Lake Michigan. In the movie it was an older rundown building made of bricks and not the big luxurious hotel we imagined.
Two hundred million dollars that’s what the heirs had a chance of winning. Remember when Sam westing had four identities and was faking death and also sneaking around. Remember when D.Denton Deere had a very little part in the movie but in the book and had a big role and was going to marry Angela. There were very different and similar things in between the book and movie. The Westing Game book and movie were both very good, even though they were very

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