“When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house‚ I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.” In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ Ponyboy is not the ordinary fourteen- year- old boy for he is a greaser‚ a poor person known to be a public disgrace from the East side of town. All of his life he has been living as a nothing compared to the Socs‚ the rich kids from the West-side. He doesn’t know if he should be proud of who he is until his entire world
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of parents want their kids to read the book then watch the movie. But why? If you read the book‚ you have an image in your head of what the character looks like‚ what their voices sound like‚ and what the scene looks like‚ and usually it is pretty good. But when you watch the movie‚ all those images get shattered. When you read a book‚ there may be parts of the book that you really like that you would like at see on the TV screen. But then‚ when the movie finally comes out‚ the part you like isn’t
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Frankenstein book was a little long to read and not very interesting to me. The pictures were good to have to somewhat visualize what was going on‚ but otherwise the book was a waste of time to me. I could never really get into it very much making it difficult for me to read it without getting bored of it. We also just finished the movie today with Carrie Fisher which was weird not seeing her shooting a blaster at storm troopers‚ but that is beside the point. It did not follow the book that we read
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Differences between the Homer’s Iliad and the film Troy. It is very apparent that the film Troy‚ directed by Wolfgang Peterson‚ has been heavily influenced by the epic poem‚ the Iliad‚ a work commonly credited to the Ancient Greek poet Homer. Both the film and the poem have the same overall plots‚ such as the siege of Troy by the Greeks‚ the feud between the warrior Achilles and the king Agamemnon‚ and these events being triggered due to the Trojan prince Paris “stealing” Helen of Sparta from king
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The Trojan War: Myth or Reality? “Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle‚ but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter”. This quotation from Homer’s The Iliad comes from Hector‚ the strongest and longest standing trojan fighter‚ as he dies when fighting in the Trojan War. He speaks his desire to be remembered and praised as a hero‚ which Homer eventually made possible. Everyone has heard of the Trojan War‚ but not everyone agrees on whether it truly
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Beowulf‚ the warrior who fought bravely against monsters. In the Beowulf movie and poem‚ there are similarities and differences in the comportment of a hero‚ gender roles‚ and in the role of religion‚ which reveal themes that reflect both Anglo Saxon and modern societies. The first example of the similarities and differences in the poem and the movie is the comportment or behavior of the hero. In both the poem and movie‚ the hero who is Beowulf‚ acts very
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Most often when a book or a poem gets made into a movie‚ there are many similarities and differences amongst the two. This was no exception for the epic poem Beowulf‚ translated by Seamus Heaney‚ and the 2007 animated motion picture “Beowulf.” It became evident rather early on in the film that the directors had interpreted the poem far differently than what it was made out to be when it was originally written. In the opening scene‚ King Hrothgar is illustrated as fat and slobbishly; almost like a
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Heroes of the Trojan War: What is a hero really? Everyone has their own beliefs about what a hero is‚ but the beliefs greatly vary from each other. In the movie Troy for example‚ lots of people think that Achilles is a hero because he is such a great warrior. In reality though‚ someone needs to be a lot more than a great weapon-handler to be a hero. A hero is a man of distinguished courage or ability‚ admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities. A hero is a person who is regarded as a model
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The Trojan War The Trojan War was a very important part of the Greeks’ history. There are many myths and legends about the trojan War. In the Iliad‚ it describes certain events in the final year of the war. According to legend‚ the Trojan War lasted 10 years‚ until Greece defeated Troy. Many of ancient Greek stories talk about the Trojan War‚ particularly Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey. Many scholars believe the legend is based on a real war of the mid-1200’s B.C.’s. People have
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The Trojan War has been regarded as one of the most recognized‚ noteworthy‚ and memorable wars (Stewart 20). Almost everyone has heard the story of the Greeks hiding in a big wooden horse to sneak into the great city of Troy‚ but did it really happen? The story was originally told by Homer‚ a great Greek poet‚ during a time when society considered everything he wrote to be absolute fact and regarded it like a history book (Stewart 20-21). In the 4th and 5th centuries‚ many Christian theorists became
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