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    The Hunger Games‚ the introductory novel in a trilogy book series written by author Suzanne Collins in 2008‚ is a young adult novel that surrounds a teenage girl named Katniss Everdeen in a futuristic tale of a teenager who defies all odds when they are stacked against her. She is shaken to the core with sacrifice‚ adversity and danger when she finds herself forced to compete in a televised series of games where there is only one survivor. Not only does she want to live‚ but she has an incredible

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    not something inherent‚ but something he has had to acquire and learn (Iliad 7: 317-320). However‚ although he is a hero‚ he displays cowardice twice when he flees upon encountering the great Ajax (Iliad 26: 318-325; Iliad 6: 180-181). Iliad ’s 22nd book portrays Hector outside the walls of Troy waiting to kill Achilles. Again his is stricken by fear at the sight of Achilles‚ so he flees (Iliad 6: 293). As well as cowardice‚ Hector shows bad judgment. He makes a grave error and has the Trojans to sleep

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    Even considering the complicated format of the book‚ David Fincher managed to almost perfectly illustrate the novel Fight Club‚ by Chuck Palahniuk‚ in his movie of the same name. Although tempting to compare a book and its film counterpart on even grounds‚ as a substitute of one another‚ the tools used to create each one differ greatly and thus should be evaluated on a thematic level. While the reading audience has the chance to reread‚ and absorb the themes in layers‚ the other audience is seeing

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    The Great Gatsby the novel and the movie have similarities and differences. The major differences the movie and the novel have is that Gatsby died thinking he was a winner‚ Jordan and Nick have something going on‚ and Gatsby makes an entrance. These are some examples of the differences between the novel and the movie of The Great Gatsby. There are many differences between the movie and the novel of The Great Gatsby. One difference is that Gatsby died thinking that he was a winner. It was the phone

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    explains he is in fact Gatsby. However in the movie Gatsby being played by Leonardo DiCaprio it would give it away that he’s the man Nick has been waiting to meet so instead Gatsby over hears Nick say he hasn’t met the host and Gatsby turns around and says I’m Gatsby. One thing I did notice about DiCaprio playing Gatsby was he over used Gatsby saying “old sport” in the book he does say it a fair amount but not as much as he does in the film. In the book it seemed very much so that Jordan Baker and

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    Both the novel and movie tells me it. Also both tells me that when max and Kevin are together that are called Freak the mighty and and that nobody can beat them ‚ not even killer Kane. the novel and the movie tells readers to always have time with friends and family and that it only matters who you are not what other people think of you . last of all both tells you to be happy with what you have because one day the happiest thing that you have may go away like Freak is to Max.The book describes that

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    Outsiders is both a great book and a great movie. Although they are both very great‚ they are not completely the same‚ or completely different. A book that turns into a movie usually has way more information because the person writing the book isn’t just going to make it a movie line for line. The movie “The Outsiders” doesn’t work like that though. The book and the movie are about as close to line for line as you can possibly get. They have to add some scenes in movie to explain the thinking of

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    Fantasy Project “Enchanted” In El Dorado California‚ once called Mud Springs‚ lived two twin sisters Elisa and Elizabeth. These 11 year olds lived with their grandmother Myra whom took care of them since they were 4 years of age after their parents passed away in a tragic car accident. They lived humbly in a small log cabin. Elisa and Elizabeth’s favorite pass time was to play in the forest; they loved acting and playing as magicians attempting to do magic tricks. One early evening right

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    Who Am I? I am Dylan Embs. My birthday is May 26 and I am 15 years old. I’m 5’6 and 130 pounds. I was born in St. Luke Hospital and live in Cold Spring‚ Kentucky. I went to St. Joseph Cold Spring in grade school and obviously as you know I am currently enrolled at Bishop Brossart High School. I am Catholic but don’t go to Church ass much as I should though. As you probably know I speak English. I guess you could say that my second language is Spanish but I am still learning more about it.

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    imagine what was happening in the movie and could feel what the character was feeling. The movie had a burst of emotion. However‚ the book was not as good and didn’t give me the same feeling as the movie. The book was dull and lifeless‚ not giving me any emotion. The purpose of this essay‚ is to compare the book by Robert Louis Stevenson to its cinematic version. The movie was better and interesting and had life‚ unlike the book. When my class watched the movie I was surprised at the huge amount

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