Compare And Contrast Book And Movie

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In comparison of the characters between the movie and the book, this paper might not be enough to contain every single one of them. However, the main characters of the movie are different from the book. Starting with the protagonist Chris Garden, as we all may know that one’s personality develops as one grows, this is what happens with the main character.
The novel starts with childhood of Gardner from around the age of four, the reader can actually notice the fears, weaknesses, insecurity and hopelessness in the author’s childhood for many reasons, for example, the disappearing of his father when he most needed him, and his alcoholic stepfather and how used to beat his mother so hard that he couldn’t do anything about it, also, in his

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