Westing Game By Ellen Raskin Compare And Contrast

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“It’s not what you have it’s what you don’t have that counts” Page 43. The westing game by Ellen Raskin is a book and a movie. These two might have the same idea but very different details. All of sixth grade in gull lake is reading the very confusing westing game. The westing game book and movie have many similarities and differences worth noting down.
The westing game is a very confusing book/story. In the westing game book 16 heirs get in groups of two to find out who killed Sam Westing. The groups help each other with their struggles in life later in the book Turtle wins the game. In the Turtle wins the game the only one trying to solve the mystery finding Sam Westings 4th identity (Julian R Eastman). The book and the movie of The Westing

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