Movies Vs Books Essay Research Paper Air

Movies Vs. Books Essay, Research Paper

Air, food, water, shelter, and fire are important elements of life for human bings. Without those elements humans could not possibly survive. Those are the obvious ones, but have you ever thought of something else that you couldn.t live without. When you answered that question did television, or books come to mind. If they didn.t then think again. Entertainment is a very important part of our existence, especially in our culture. Without entertainment, whether it be individual or with a group, humans could not stay sane, hence could not survive. There are many types of entertainment. Humans, since Adam and Eve have been entertaining themselves in all sorts of different ways. As simple as playing with sticks and stones, and as complex as flying F-16 fighting jets; we need entertainment. Two of the most popular forms of entertainment today is watching televison, and reading books.

Reading and writing is one of the oldest forms of communications. Throughout the ages stories have been past down from generation to generation through word of mouth, and through the advent of paper; books. One hundred years ago there was no radio, no cars, and no television. They entertained themselves in different ways then we do today. When they finished their work, instead of plopping themselves on the couch with the remote control, they either sat down with their family and talked, or they read. They read poems, mystery novels, science-fiction novels, romance novels, and so on. People one hundred years ago read much more than we do today, so does that make them smarter than we are today.

When I sit down somewhere to read a book, I have to get prepared. I have to be in a quiet atmosphere, I have to be in the mood to read, and I must be prepared to sit down and read for a time period of at least an hour. If I.m not able to do any one of those things when I start to read, then I will lose my concentration, and I will stop reading. I find it much easier just to turn on the television, find a channel that I like, and watch what.s on. It doesn.t take as much mental concentration that it does to read a novel then it does to watch a movie. Does that possibly mean that you learn more when you read.

I have two examples to try and find out if that question is true or not. The two examples are the relations between the book and the movie of .Snow Falling on Cedars., and the other is .The Perfect Storm.. I believe those are both good examples to compare between the other because they are both about death and drowning, and both are set in tiny fishing villages. First I will talk about .Snow Falling on Cedars..

The novel .Snow Falling on Cedars. by David Guterson is a story about love, death, treachery, deceit, romance, and many more adjectives that I can.t think of right now. It takes place in a tiny fishing village on an island off of the Washington coast. The novel is four hundred and sixty pages long, and it has a fairly complicated plot. The plot often moves back and forth from present tense to past tense. It takes place during WWII so that is a major factor in the time line of the plot. WWII is most definite when we move the Japanese Americans out of their homes and into concentration camps. A white local boy named Ishmael and a Japanese girl named Hatsue fall in love without letting either of their family.s know about their relationship. But when the Americans take Hatsue and her family from home Ishmael can.t stand being away from his love, and he writes a letter to Hatsue and her mother finds it. When Hatsue.s mother finds out she bands Hatsue from seeing Ishmael, and Hatsue begins to realize that it their relationship would never work out. Even though their relationship ends, they still always think about each other, especially Ishmael who will always love Hatsue.

Ishmael and Hatsue.s relationship is explained in a good portion of the book. And whenever their relationship is explained it is being presented in the past tense. So a large portion of the novel is written in past tense. The other parts of the novel is in the present tense which is taking place mostly in a court room where there is a case taking place about a potential homicide of a fishermen out at sea. The deceased fisherman is Carl Heine. The suspect is Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American who had arrangements to buy a part of Carl Heine.s strawberry farm. Kabuo Miyamoto is Hatsue.s husband. All evidence leads to Kabuo as being guilty in the murder Carl Heine, but information from an unlikely source proves him innocent. The information came from a juror, Ishmael Chambers; Hatsue.s child-hood love.

The author of the book did an excellent job with detail, suspense, and showing in detail, the events leading up to the innocence of Kabuo. When I was reading the book I was bored with the sections of Hatsue and Ishmael. I thought those scenes lagged and weren.t very exciting. What I didn.t know when I wasn.t finished with the book is that those scenes of Hatsue and Ishmael were so important to the outcome of the trial and of the whole story. When I was finished with the book I thought of the scenes of Hatsue and Ishmael , and I realized how important those scenes ended up being to the outcome. Even though while I was reading the book I thought some parts were boring, when I was done reading I understood the significance of those parts and I couldn.t imagine