Love Letter

Many short stories have been changed in many ways to make it an amazing movie like The Love Letter. The Love Letter is a great example of a short story turned into an amazing movie. The movie and short story have similarities, differences, and similarities with slight differences that may be different, but it doesn't change the meaning of the story. Compare to other movies The Love Letter is a movie that's a short story made into a long length movie. In the short story and movie of The Love Letter they both have similarities. For example, there's an antique desk that the male character buys when he goes looking for a desk. Once he gets it home he examines the desk and finds love letters from a lady of the past name Elizabeth. There's also the post office where the male character sends his first letters to Elizabeth. This is when both characters start writing love letters to each other. At the end of both the short story and movie Jake or Scotty finds Elizabeth's tombstone that says "I Never Forgot". In both the short story and movie the two characters don't get married to anyone, but fall in love with each other through the love letters. Not only does the movie and short story have similarities, but these similarities have slight differences in it. The similarities of both the movie and short story have slight differences in it that make the story a little different from each other. For example, the antique desk that is bought in the short story fastens to the wall compared to the desk in the movie that stands on its own. Another thing is the slight difference between the character's name from the short story that he's named Jake and in the movie he's named Scotty. There’s also the drawer in the desk that you find out in the short story that there's three drawers with three letters and in the movie there's one drawer with multiple of letters. These might be similarities with slight differences, but the major differences make a different to the movie. The major differences make a different to the movie because it allows it to add more things to make it a long length movie. In the movie you could see that the character name Scotty is engaged to a lady name Debra and as you read in the short story Jake is not engaged. There’s also the time when he finds the love letters and shows it to his mother where we first meet her in the movie. Another difference is when Scotty sends a picture of himself to Elizabeth so she could know how he looks like. In movie you see Elizabeth talking to a soldier that really looks like Scotty and she starts to fall in love with the soldier. In the movie you could see Scotty in a bike riding contest and that’s when the story has some differences from the short story. Scotty gets into an accident during the bike contest and goes into a coma. During Elizabeth's time she is racing to save the one she loves, but is to late to save him. Where in the short story she doesn't fall in love with anyone but Jake. At he end Scotty is seen looking at Elizabeth's tombstone and then he meets a lady that looks just like Elizabeth and almost at the end you see Elizabeth's poem that Scotty told her not to stop writing. The Love Letter, both the short story and movie, are more alike than different from each other. Even though the movie has some differences from the short story it still doesn't change the whole meaning of the story. They are both alike because it shows how two people fall in love with each other even if they are from different times. The thing I liked about both the short story and movie is that it shows how the two characters write each other love letters even though they are both from different times. Many short stories might have been changed to make a long length movie like The Love Letter, but it doesn't change the fact to me that no matter where you are your love could reach you even if you’re far away.