Our America Movie Analysis

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The movie “Our America” there has been a lot of differences and similarities in the book and in the movie. In the book and the movie they have different plots,characters and other things. In the movie and the book the main differences and similarities is in the book David Isay did not have a big role in the book and there were different events that occurred.
First,One difference from the movie to the book was David Isay did not have a big role in the book. In the book David was only mentioned twice. In the movie he had a lot of roles with LeAlan and Lloyd. They would meet up for breakfast and they would just meet up for breakfast. Also he was on a radio show and in the book he was not mentioned to be on the radio.This means that David Isay

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