First, the chess theme plays through. Sam Westing enjoys a not-so-innocent game of chess. He uses the queen’s sacrifice to trick his victim into checkmate. Next, Turtle is the main character and the protagonist. With her crutch of kicking people, she figures out the answer to the game. By kicking Barney Northrup, she kicked Sandy McSouthers as well, who are both Sam Westing. After that, the answers to the puzzle and the game are the same in both the novel and the movie. The missing words from “America the Beautiful” spelled out Berthe Erica Crow, the ex-wife of Sam Westing. Even though there are lots of similarities, differences can be
First, the chess theme plays through. Sam Westing enjoys a not-so-innocent game of chess. He uses the queen’s sacrifice to trick his victim into checkmate. Next, Turtle is the main character and the protagonist. With her crutch of kicking people, she figures out the answer to the game. By kicking Barney Northrup, she kicked Sandy McSouthers as well, who are both Sam Westing. After that, the answers to the puzzle and the game are the same in both the novel and the movie. The missing words from “America the Beautiful” spelled out Berthe Erica Crow, the ex-wife of Sam Westing. Even though there are lots of similarities, differences can be