Using Comparison and Contrast

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Using six outside sources, write a 2,000- to 2,500- word comparison or contrast research paper that explores the commonalities and differences of plot or character development between a book and a movie based on the book. The paper will persuade the reader that either the book or the movie does the better job of expressing the writer's literary aim.

Your assignment is to provide your own analysis of a novel you choose that has been made into a movie (not a movie that has been made into a book). You'll write your literary analysis using the comparison and contrast pattern of development. Your analysis must incorporate examples from both the book and movie to illustrate the commonalities or differences for either the plot development or one major character in the book and the movie. You must conduct either an interview or a survey related to the novel and movie, as well as research different reviews of both the movie and the book to support your analysis. You must use a total of six sources for this assignment: the novel, the movie, one interview or survey you conducted, and three critical reviews.

Purpose

To inform your audience about one literary element in the novel and movie To persuade your audience that either the book or the movie does a better job developing either the plot or one major character

Process

Review the novel you chose for this assignment and the movie based on that novel. Choose to focus either on plot development or on one major character. Scan through the novel to mark examples related to that focus and watch the movie again taking notes of examples and Generating Details" on page 387, where you imagine the author of the novel interacting with the stars or scriptwriter in the movie. Explore how the author would react and what he or she might say about the way the novel has been adapted. Then explore what the stars/scriptwriter might say to defend the movie. Craft applicable questions for either an interview or survey to learn what others think about the novel, the movie, or both.