A Wrinkle In Time Movie And Book Comparison

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In the movie productions of And Then There Were None and A Wrinkle in Time, the directors did not follow the original story line from the novels. Each film had either slight or major differences from the original. Whether the differences were relationships, scenes, setting or characters, they changed how the story played out. Some of these changes greatly impacted the story line of both novels.
In A Wrinkle in Time, one of the differences was the movie starts out with Meg at school daydreaming. In the novel it starts out with her in the attic room talking about the thunderstorm outside. The director’s changes to this scene let us have a better insight on Meg’s personality. Another difference is when Meg and Calvin meet. In the movie they meet

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