The Westing Game Compare And Contrast

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This essay will be comparing and contrasting the movie, Get a Clue and the book, The Westing Game. These two had many notable features. This essay is going to point out the point of view, character change, and other differences. These two are very similar but I’ll just point out the big details. I’m writing this essay to show the dramatic differences between Get a Clue and The Westing Game.
First this essay will include point of differences. In the book a narrator told us the story but in the movie we saw the story though Turtle’s eyes. The point of view was a big difference since seeing the story through Turtle's eyes made the story seem a lot different. But with having Turtle tell the story it took away some key details. With the risk

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