When reading a story and comparing it to the movie version, you will find that there can be similarities and differences. The authors Nathaniel Hawthorne, Katherine Anne Porter,Washington Ivring, wrote short stories that show examples of similarities and differences compared to their movie format. This paper compares and contrasts plot, setting, and characters that are determined through analysis of the stories text and the movies selections. In these three short stories there are similarities and differences within the plots that go through the books and movies.
Across centuries, characters have been an important part in carrying a plot. Animals, people and even thought-up species can be the main focus of the story, allowing the plot to move forward. Authors use character actions and thoughts as ways to illustrate the traits that each of them portray. These traits are important, as they assist the progression of the story. Throughout the plot of Marigolds by Eugenia Collier, Lizabeth’s growth is tracked through the traits she demonstrates.
The novel and film exemplified the gothic trope in a similar way although the differences were represented in the setting and attributes given to each character. The first similarity
The audience does not know who the two characters are and the same applies to their activities, and as we learn later in the story, the readers come
The story “Outcast of Poker Flat,” the characters are very different from the ones in “The Real Thing,” however, as different as they might be they do share many common traits with each other. John Oakhurst can be compared to the artist because he just wants to help. The Duchess and Mother Shipton have similar traits at the Monarch “actors” they play an important part in society, but no the most important.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is used in many classrooms as a prime example of the American experience or dream. Though drastically different in many ways, these same English classrooms use The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger as a variation on that same experience. The main characters of each novel, Gatsby and Holden, are very different at first glance, however when taking a deeper look at character analysis, it is found these two characters are more alike than previously concluded. Both Holden Caulfield and Jay Gatsby are characters so flawed that they are set up for their falls, however Gatsby is the character that, in the end, had a greater fall. Gatsby and Holden, though extremely different characters, both suffer from similar problems.
In the short story “The Landlady,” by Roald Dahl and the short film, “Tales of the Unexpected” series, Billy Weaver goes to Bath, England where he meets an old landlady. Screenwriters change an author's work because they want to expand their ideas from a book into a movie. In both the story and short film there are many similarities to be found. For example, the story and short film the characters motives are the same.
Short stories, novels, novellas and children's books all have something in common. With words alone, they create characters which push the story forward and have an impact on every component of the story. Characters are believable when people can relate to them through their actions and reactions. Shirley Jackson’s “The Possibility of Evil,” includes the essential character elements of complexity, desire, contrasting traits, consistency, and the ability of a character to change in order to develop the protagonist into a living breathing person.
The characters in any story are the main parts of the story that engage the readers with the uniqueness
Homer’s The Odyssey, widely considered one of the most influential novel, has given inspiration for Charles Frazier to write Cold Mountain. The characters juxtapose closely and the plot differentiate slightly. One character comparison that one can make is Penelope in The Odyssey and Ada in Cold Mountain. Both characters are respectively aided by major characters in minor roles to plot.
Even though these characters like Jay Gatsby, Victor Frankenstein, Holden Caulfield, Daisy Buchannan and Janie Peace carry themselves in an eccentric manner, These writers of these novels (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mary Shelley J.D. Salinger and Zora Neale Hurston) have gone against the stereotype of what classifies someone as being mad because the persons in the novel were aware of their actions, these characters have experienced some kind of trauma that forced them to react the way they do and all of these individuals from the novel seem to be misunderstood. These writers have made it very clear that their characters have been aware of their actions the entire duration of the novel. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby knew exactly what he was doing and why he was doing what he did. This was an extremely clear indication that he could be classified as a person with sanity. One can infer that the only time
Two characters from each media that could be compared are Lady Macbeth from Macbeth and Doctor Noyes—also known as Noah—from Not Wanted on the Voyage. In this essay, the film and the novel will be utilized
Irving’s blatant similar characteristics between characters include possessing requited love, being financially inept, being selfless, and being eerie. Two similar characters in Washington Irving’s short stories are the young nameless woman from “The Pride of the Village” and Ichabod Crane from “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” due to their pining for someone that does not love them back. The nameless woman from the “The Pride of the Village” was a beautiful young woman who was referred to
Characterization, conflict, and symbolism is a major key in a short story matter of fact it is a major key in any type of literature. Characterization is explained through out literature from poems to book. Characterization is shown well throughout the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker. Conflict and symbolism are also shown very well throughout the whole short story. The key to find characterization, conflict, and symbolism in a piece of literature is to analyze the story and actually understand the story.
A simple powerful story of a rural family that contains a returned changed daughter leaves a family in surprise. “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker demonstrates that the theme of the story that consists different views of heritage by using literary elements like characterization, imagery, and settings. Each literary element holds a strong value to define the meaning of heritage from different perspectives of the characters. Alice Walker demonstrates it by Mama, Maggie, and Dee by how they each value their heritage by the things that they have left from their ancestors. To start of with, characterization is the highlights and explanation of the details of a character (“Definition and Examples of Literary Terms Characterization”).
