From Page to Screen There is no arguing that movies are great to watch every once in awhile. You get to see a different world than the one that you live in. These new environments are fun to explore, except when they're not as they were meant to be. Novels create a descriptive world that a movie can't help but fall short of. Despite the fact that movies show a different perspective, books such as Divergent and The Hunger Games display wonderful factors that movies cannot convey. We laugh, we cry, and we truly feel as though the characters are our friends. Characterization can make a novel what it is because of the connections we build and the emotions we feel. In Divergent by Veronica Roth, Tris Prior contemplates her decision by thinking, “when we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.” This showcases how Tris Prior imagines how her decisions could have led her to a different world, in which they would be, “in a safer place” (Roth 338). Because of the new found love she discovers, she feels she has something to protect and to …show more content…
In the novel, Divergent, Tris Prior sees Four for the first time and gives us a wonderful description of his eyes that, “are so deep-set that his eyelashes touch the skin under his eyebrows, and they are dark blue, a dreaming, sleeping, waiting color” (Roth 59). We as readers, are able to imagine his features and construct our own image of who we want him to be without restrictions. A movie version traps you and there is no room to imagine the characters you fell in love with in the novel. You can not help but see them how they appear on the screen. Being able to imagine a novel for yourself allows you to grow your visualization skills and create an environment in which the characters