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“The Secret Life Of Bees” is a story of a fourteen-year-old girl raised in South Carolina that has lived most of her life with the guilt of killing her own mother. Raised by an abusive father,Lily runs off with her friend Rosaleen to Tiburon,California. Lily and Rosaleen stay with the Boatwright sisters who Lily believes knew her mother. Lily later finds out that her mother did live with the boatwright sisters and also finds out that her mother left her with her father,T-ray. Feeling betrayed,Lily takes a time to cope with the fact that her mother had flaws and made mistakes that Lily had to learn to forgive.

The Holocaust can be called one of the darkest sides and the biggest tragedies of the human civilization. There are many different stories and experiences that recap what happened in the camps. Each one is unique from the next, but also shares similarities with in each other. There are two stories that interest many people and have similarities and differences. In the novel Night and in the movie "Life is Beautiful", the Holocaust was experienced both similarly and differently through the mood of sadness, father/ son relationship, and self-preservation.

When comparing a story to a film, there are three ways that they can be translated. These translations can be a literal translation, traditional translation or radical translation. The literal translation can be defined as, "reproduces the plot and all its attending details as closely as possible to the letter of the book" (Cahir, 16). The traditional translation can be defined as, " maintains the overall traits of the book (its plot, setting, and stylistic conversations) but revamps details in those particular ways that the filmmakers see necessary and fitting" (Cahir, 16-17). A radical translation can be defined as one, "which reshapes the book in extreme revolutionary ways both as a means of interpreting the literature and of making the

Submitted by Harka Bahadur Subba B.A. ENGLISH/EVS Enrollment No. 200341 Why do you think it is necessary to make changes when you make a movie based on a book? Discuss this in the light of the film “William Shakespeare”? Romeo and Juliet co-written and directed by Baz Luhram with Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.

John Boyne’s story, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, tells the tale of an incredible friendship between two eight-year old boys during the Holocaust. One of the boys is Bruno, the son of an important German commander who is put in charge of Auschwitz Camp, and the other is Shmuel, a Jewish boy inside the camp. Throughout the story their forbidden friendship grows, and the two boys unknowingly break the incredible racial boundaries of the time. They remain best friends until Bruno goes under the fence to help Shmuel find his father when they are both killed in the gas showers of the camp. By comparing and contrasting supporting characters, irony, and the themes in the movie and the book, it is clear that the movie, The Boy in the Striped

Many books have been used as the basis for motion pictures. According to John Harrington one third of all movies ever made were adapted from novels. The transition of any piece of literature into a film generates a lot of discussion, positive and negative, that provides a basis for comparison between these two media. Using the cliché 'the book is always better than the film ' prevents making meaningful comparisons because the cliché assumes that the 'language ' system of literature is deeper or more complex than that of film. However, both books and films narrate stories.

Since books and movies are made for diffenrent audiences and tell the stoy in different ways the movie adaptation of a book always leaves out or changes parts of the story in the book. In the Jackie Allen part of the then chapter of the book “High Fidelity” by Nick Hornby the story of Rob's third girlfriend on his desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups,in chronologigal order list is told. Jackie Allen was Rob's friend's Phil girlfriend who Rob pinched off of. Rob tells about how they met and how he pinched her off of Phil over the period of several month.

When books are adapted into movies, they tend to lose a considerable amount of substance and character development. Often, when the book’s content is edited to fit the allotted time for a movie, character depth and plot details are lost in translation. Many details and literary devices that may seem insignificant are cut from the screenplays, but they can play instrumental roles in the development of characters and the furthering of the plot. One literary device that is poorly represented in film adaptions is attention to detail. Often, seemingly insignificant details are excluded from movies, but they can play a large part in the growth of characters.

The following essay is going to argue that dissemination is a better trope for describing the intertextual relationship between Eileen Chang’s novella Lust Caution and Ang Lee’s film adaptation Lust, Caution. First, the essay will clarify the definitions of interpretation and dissemination, and use various examples from the novella and film adaptation to illustrate how dissemination is a better trope for describing the intertextual relationship between Eileen Chang’s novella and Ang Lee’s film adaptation. Interpretation in its very core means to explain, reframe or demonstrate one’s own comprehension of something. In the case of film adaptation of a literary source, interpretation refers to the display of the director’s own understanding of what is explicit and shown in the text, putting his comprehension of the text into filmic form. Interpretation assumes that the meaning within a text is solid and static, and that specific meaning is generally perceived in the same way regardless of contexts

Film and written literature have often gone hand in hand. Written literature has often served as an inspiration for film. Directors often make movie adaptations of books and people who have read the book will often criticize the movie for lacking important detail covered in the book. Film, depending on many factors can often be better than the book, or at least do it justice. Since the conception of film many have argued that written literature will be obsolete.

In today’s world, there are varieties of films that have been duplicated into a more modern version. Most Walt Disney movies are originated from either written or old fashion versions of that movie. Some of those movies are edited in several ways. In the Disney movie, The Princess and the Frog one will see that the characters, location, and resolution differ from the original copy. Although they bear some superficial similarities, the difference between the written version of The Princess and the Frog highly differs from the movie.

The war based movies usually grab the attention of viewers. The amazing tale Beasts of No Nation is novel which is written by the Nigerian-American in 2005, who Harvard-educated student and author Uzodinma Iweala, The Nove lwas adapted as a film in 2015. The novel which is adapted as a film in 2015 is about the young poor boy, Agu, Who is forced to join a group of soldiers in some unnamed West African country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first conflicted by simultaneous revulsion by and fascination with the mechanics of war.

The issue of fidelity in relation to film adaptation is a difficult concept to draw upon when analysing the adaptation of a novel into film. Fidelity is a complex issue, bearing a plethora of conflicting concepts and ideas, which one could propose makes it difficult for the analysis of adaptation to be entirely conclusive. Thus making the study and analysis of fidelity somewhat ambiguous. Nevertheless, it is still an integral element of adaptation discourse and exploration. Perhaps one of the most important fidelity concept to mention is that no matter how closely an adaptation follows the original text it was based on, it will still never be entirely faithful.

Movies can bring a world to life before our eyes. It makes characters into living, breathing flesh and blood. Books on the other hand, let you live everything as though we there as part of the story. There have been great movies made from books, but sometimes, movie versions of books tend to upset readers because they are not exactly like the book. When a Movie director works from an adapted screenplay, the results are different from reading the book.

Jane Austen is one of the greatest writers in the English history. Both the general population and scholars began to recognize her work as literary masterpieces after her death. However, Austen did receive some recognition after her second novel, while she was still alive. Many of her novels were adapted by films, such as; Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.