Compare/Contrast Essay
On tuesday, October 14 my eighth grade class went to ISU to watch plays on the stories we read in class. The plays were fun to watch but some of them were different than the book. Even though there were differences there were also some similarities.
In the play version of The Tell Tale Heart, there wasn't as much suspense that built up as there was in the book. For example, In the book it said that the servant of the old man stood at his doorway for a whole hour one night, but in the play that wasn't shown. The actor simply opened the door then closed it after a short time. Even the narrator never announced it. Another example of the suspense lacking would be when the servant of the old man in Tell Tale Heart didn't hide the body parts of the old man as carefully as the book made it sound. In the book the narrator described his ideas as, perfect or not crazy. In the play I didn't get that feeling or thought. It just looked like a normal crime scene to me. A final example of little suspense build up could be in The Raven. In the poem it built up suspense and made you think, ¨What´s going to happen next?¨ In the play they made it look like it wasn't a mystery but like it was a haunting. They feel was very different. …show more content…
I like the play version because it made it sound less boring than the book. In the play they had the frogs act humorous and jump around in a funny way, but in the book it didn't say anything about the frogs doing funny stuff. Also they made Smiley look like he was more of a humorous person also. In the book I thought he was just a normal person who bet on
On tuesday, October 14 my eighth grade class went to ISU to watch plays on the stories we read in class. The plays were fun to watch but some of them were different than the book. Even though there were differences there were also some similarities.
In the play version of The Tell Tale Heart, there wasn't as much suspense that built up as there was in the book. For example, In the book it said that the servant of the old man stood at his doorway for a whole hour one night, but in the play that wasn't shown. The actor simply opened the door then closed it after a short time. Even the narrator never announced it. Another example of the suspense lacking would be when the servant of the old man in Tell Tale Heart didn't hide the body parts of the old man as carefully as the book made it sound. In the book the narrator described his ideas as, perfect or not crazy. In the play I didn't get that feeling or thought. It just looked like a normal crime scene to me. A final example of little suspense build up could be in The Raven. In the poem it built up suspense and made you think, ¨What´s going to happen next?¨ In the play they made it look like it wasn't a mystery but like it was a haunting. They feel was very different. …show more content…
I like the play version because it made it sound less boring than the book. In the play they had the frogs act humorous and jump around in a funny way, but in the book it didn't say anything about the frogs doing funny stuff. Also they made Smiley look like he was more of a humorous person also. In the book I thought he was just a normal person who bet on