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Book Summary: The Lovely Bones

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In the book ¨The Lovely Bones¨ there 's a young girl named Susie Salmon. The character Susie Salmon was murdered at the age 14 by a serial killer named Mr. Harvey. After Susie is murdered she is stuck in a world full of Mr. Harvey 's victims. In the world she watches back at earth of the life she could have lived while she 's learning how to let go of it. In the movie there were scenes that weren 't shown from the book. The book talked about there being a memorial for susie and in the movie there wasn 't one. In the book Susie and Ray skipped class in the auditorium and in the movie they stood by Susie´s locker.The movie showed when Susie reached out to Ruth, when she ran into her in the street. In the book Susie reached out to her father
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In the movie Susieś elbow was never found, as stated in the book that it fell out of the body bag that Mr. Harvey had put her body in after he killed and chopped her up into pieces. The book was very descriptive about what specifics Harvey did but in the movie none of that was talked about, just skipped through. A keystone was kept in the book by Harvey, in the movie it is a little house charm. Towards the end of the story, an icicle hits Harvey on the head and that is how he dies in the book. In the movie it hits him on the shoulder, the then gets scared from the hit that he slips back and off the edge of a cliff and dies.

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Yes, the basics of the plot are similar, but in the movie, there are changed details, mainly like missing scenes in the movie that the book originally had, or simplified events. In the movie, there was an additional girl character that was not in the book. The house Moon eventually came to at the end of the story was supposed to be a brick house. Some of the things the characters in the movie said were a bit different from what was said in the book. Things like that.

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For example, in the book, only one person drowns Pony, but in the movie, three people drowned him. This is different because in the book Pony is being drowned at the water fountain by only one person. On the other hand in the movie Pony is getting drowned by three people instead of one like it is in the story. Another comparison between the book and the movie would be when Ponyboy goes to court and doesn’t testify in the book, but in the movie he does. These are different because in the book when Pony has to go to court for the murder of Bob he doesn’t testify in the movie when he goes to court he does testify.

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In Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward parallels the mythological story of Medea in order to highlight her representation of women. The use of Medea, who is embodied in various aspects within the three main female characters, allows Ward’s work to obtain a sense of universality to her narrative. Also with this incorporation, Ward is able to change the dominant perspective of “blackness” that has plagued southern literature written by African-American authors. Salvage the Bones occurs in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, following Esch,who has just found out she is pregnant, and her poor family just days before the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina. Medea, an anti-hero, who succumbs to her own decisions and the demons of love represents a dynamic femininity, rather than the stereotypical aspect of which is what being a female is.

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I know that I said that most of the book and the movie was the same but not identical, here is the not identical details I will talk about. For instance, the plot. Very little of the events changed but if it did, it was quite slim. For another instance, instead of starting at home, like in the book, in the movie she started in the tattoo shop. Another example would be how she teleports in a field in the book and the movie has her teleport right into the house.

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One comparison between the movie and book version is the darkness of the setting and the time in which it takes place. In both versions, the story takes place mostly at night, which is when all the action happens. The book also characterizes the setting as dark and the movie shows the darkness. The book and movie versions of

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Men and women tend to behave in a way that will allow them to fit in, as opposed to doing what will make them the happiest. The characters in "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold experience this push toward conformity while coping with a terrible loss. Abigail, after the social norms of her generation forces her towards motherhood, must come to terms with her shortcomings. This absence of a proper mother figure affects Abigail's son, Buckley, by depriving him of the ability to freely show his pain. Ruth, however, is able to defy social norms surrounding sexuality, but faces the consequences of being different in a world filled with similarity.

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While there are some differences in the book and movie, the similarities are much more clear! I think i will start out by talking about what was included from the book and not in the movie! So there was quite a few things from the book that was left out of the movie. First off, the book starts out with Ponyboy walking out of a movie theater and getting beat up

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The Lovely Bones I chose the scene where Suzy finally see’s all of Mr. Harvey’s victims from The Lovely Bones because I thought it was the most powerful scene in the film. The Lovely Bones is about the murder of a fourteen-year-old girl named Suzy Salmon. In the beginning, we see Suzy saving her younger brothers life and her grandma telling her she will have a long and happy life because of what she did, we later find out her grandma was wrong. We then spend the rest of the movie watching Suzy realize she has been murdered and her family trying to find out who did it. I believe this scene was filmed with a long-focus lens because most shots are either close-ups or over the shoulder shots throughout the entire scene.

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Another difference is that in the movie they go into town, but in the book it 's never mentioned. Something else that was different was that in the book the mood was happy most of the time, while in the movie the mood was sad. A difference between the book and the movie is that in the book momma was going to burn Byron, but in the movie she does not burn him. A big difference is that in the

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The movie has a different story structure. Unlike the book the movie has some flashbacks. Some differences are that she walks in oh the man in the beginning. The tells his wife in the movie that he is having an affair with another woman. The story clerk does not offer the woman cheesecake in the book.

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Another difference would be the way the short stories were ordered. In the book, the stories were told in no perceptible order, making it hard to remember who is whose daughter/mother etc. The movie begins with a party which all the characters attend, and the stories are disclosed as the character is thinking about it. The mother and daughter’s stories are staged after one another. The movie allows for a more natural way of telling the story, and makes it easier to remember the characters and associate mothers with daughters.

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A book and a movie can be both the same and different. In The Outsiders there are many similarities and differences with the book and movie. They were the same because Johnny kills a man, they cut their, there was the movie scene, and Johnny and Ponyboy went to the church. Some of the differences is when Darry slaps Ponyboy but in the movie he pushes him, Johnny doesn't bring a lot of food in the book but does in the movie he does, when Johnny killed the man it was more described but it wasn't in the movie, and Johnny says he wants to kill himself in the movie. In The Outsiders one of the themes is “friendship”

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It had more narration so the reader could understand what is happening. Secondly, the movie. The movie was different than the book. It had some parts that were in the book, but it lacked some details.

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CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND The following pages within this part will offer information about Chinese American literature, Amy Tan, and The Bonesetter’s Daughter, aiming at helping readers to get a general idea of The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan. 1.1 An overview of Chinese American literature According to Zhao Liying, in the definition of Professor Rao, Chinese American literature are as follow. Chinese American literature refers to the literature written in English in the United States by Chinese Americans who were born, growing and living, working or living there as immigrants, describing their life experience. (qtd.

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