Difference Between Play And Play

Seeing the play was very entertaining, and I learned a lot. There were some similarities between the play and the stories, but the differences were what stood out most to me. When I’m watching movies after I have already read the books, it annoys me that they can’t everything perfect. It was similar with my seeing the plays after reading the short stories; I was angry at the many differences. Overall, I enjoyed the plays, however I like the stories much better. The difference overall between the characters was surprising, and there were more differences than I thought there would be. The group that performed the play had only five or six members, so the amount of people there could be in one scene was limited, and sometimes that took away from the story. In the story The Monkey’s Paw, one of the characters was the wrong gender, even though that annoyed me, they did work it in smoothly, and turned out fine. Another character mistake that made me dislike the plays was when the frogs that Jim Smiley caught were played by people. I realize that they couldn’t have brought real frogs in, but the least they could do was use fake ones. …show more content…
The frogs, in the story, were a part of the lesson and the joke that JIm Smiley learned; they were used for a purpose. In the play, there was great exaggeration, and that took my attention away from the plot because it made the frogs, and things the frogs were doing, seem ridiculous. In the poem, The Raven, there was emphasis on things that needed it, yet in the play simple actions were made fun of, and made the audience laugh at. This poem was not written to make people laugh. Little things like turning the pages of a book looked stupid and pointless when the actors did it, instead mysterious and elegant, like in the