Dia De Los Muertes Comparison

In multiple forms of media, we can get much entertainment, as well as information to help expand our minds. In the movie, The Book of Life we see one perspective of the day of the dead from the life of one people. And in the article, Dia de los Muertos, we see a history and reality of the day of the dead. While they both inform us of the same topic, they have similarities and differences.
In both platforms of media, they describe to us a little bit of history of Dia de los Muertos. They give us a little bit of similarities in them such as the colorful scenery of the setting. But unlike The Book of Life, the article Dia de los Muertos gives us the more descriptive version of the day of the dead. It includes the planning, the history and it also informs us of the process and step they take to plan …show more content…
They both show us a celebration of a culture that celebrates the dead. They also talk about the three deaths that the person takes when dead. The first death is when our body does not function any longer. The second, is when we are returned to the ground and are remembered, relating to the land of the remembered in the movie. The third and final death, happens when no one remembers you any longer, or shown by the land of the forgotten in the movie. So, as you can see, they are both similar in some ways if not all.
The Book of Life is a movie that is meant to entertain rather than give us information on the day of the dead. Rather than giving us a general overlook of the entire day and an entire ethnic group, it only shows us the celebration from the view of one family. But while the article gives us an idea and tells us, we see a visual perspective of the celebration. The article also doesn’t tell us that there are rulers of the lands of the dead. It also is based on the idea that there is a book that has everyone’s story of their life in a book. So, you can see, that they have similarities and