All Summer In A Day Compare And Contrast

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All Summer in a Day

The movie and the book are similar and different. Some examples are, a difference in the book you don’t know most of the characters names but in the movie you do. Another difference in the book is it rained for seven years but in the movie it was nine, a similarity is the characters another one is the setting. And a difference is in the book they did not have sun kits like in the

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