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Compare And Contrast It Had To Be Murder

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The use of transitional phrases and detailed scenes allows even a short story to carry the weight of a novel or a full film. When the author or director decides to emphasize a certain phrase or even something as small as the smell of a certain object it works as a sort of code that infiltrates the mind of the reader/viewer. This causes the reader/viewer to start drawing conclusions as more and more objects of the equation are provided to them by the creator of the story. In the two stories that we are given for analyses there is a large difference in their presentation: the first one, “It Had To Be Murder” is a written text, and the second one, “Rear Window” is a film. The question is how the different mediums between these two pieces affect the story line?
“It Had To Be Murder” was written by Cornell Woolrich in 1942. This short detective fiction story is written form the perspective of a man trapped in his apartment due to an injury. At the end of the book, we learn that the injury he refers to is a broken leg. The beautiful part about this story is that the …show more content…

At the end of Woolrich’s story Detective Doyle shoots Mr. Thorwald, the murderer, with his rifle through the protagonist’s rear window. In the film Mr. Thorwald comes to kill our protagonist but only manages to drop him out of the first story window breaking his leg. At this time in the film Doyle was in Thorwald’s apartment before hearing the yelling Protagonist and rushing over to arrest Mr. Thorwald. They manage to arrest Mr. Thorwald and he confesses to having left the remains of his wife in the river after they were almost found in the rose bushes. Our protagonist ends up breaking his second leg as well once again stuck in his apartment away from his detective journalism job, but he is now much closer to the woman he loves, the blonde, Lisa

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