Austin Hardy Mrs. Feagley English Language Arts 10 April 2024 How Does The Movie Compare to The Book I have both read the book and watched the movie Farewell to Manzanar. They have both differences and also a lot of similarities. The difference is that the movie seems to add more scenes over a lot of the stuff that the book talks about, or lengthens it by a lot. For example, some scenes in the book take up three or four pages but only last 10 seconds in the movie, or the opposite, and the movie adds in things that are not in the text. The filmmakers took the liberty of adding things in to make the movie more interesting and emotional. Both show how WWII had a massive impact on their lives and how the internment camps changed the way that they
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Mama starts screaming and crying and then it shows when they have a funeral for Richie. All of these scenes are a massive departure from the book and do not help to make any sense of the points found in the text. This is an example of the filmmakers trying to make the movie more emotional. Another example is way back at the beginning of the movie. In the beginning of the movie, it shows Jeanne as a grown up revisiting the site of the camp. The end of the movie shows the family driving off in a new car and Papa laughing and yelling. In the book, it ends with Jeanne revisiting the site of the camp instead of it being at the beginning. At the end of the movie, it also shows Alice graduating from school, while it doesn’t say anything about this in the book; instead it says the schools were closed. Overall, the book and movie are similar in many ways, but are still very different from each other. The movie is similar to the book, but it doesn’t convey the full message that the book does and doesn’t show as well what Jeanne was trying to express. Both show how WWII had a massive impact on their lives and how the internment camps changed the way that they live, but they do it in slightly different
Mama starts screaming and crying and then it shows when they have a funeral for Richie. All of these scenes are a massive departure from the book and do not help to make any sense of the points found in the text. This is an example of the filmmakers trying to make the movie more emotional. Another example is way back at the beginning of the movie. In the beginning of the movie, it shows Jeanne as a grown up revisiting the site of the camp. The end of the movie shows the family driving off in a new car and Papa laughing and yelling. In the book, it ends with Jeanne revisiting the site of the camp instead of it being at the beginning. At the end of the movie, it also shows Alice graduating from school, while it doesn’t say anything about this in the book; instead it says the schools were closed. Overall, the book and movie are similar in many ways, but are still very different from each other. The movie is similar to the book, but it doesn’t convey the full message that the book does and doesn’t show as well what Jeanne was trying to express. Both show how WWII had a massive impact on their lives and how the internment camps changed the way that they live, but they do it in slightly different