The Color Purple Movie And Book Comparison Essay

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he Bluest Eye and The Color Purple, compare and contrast what the movie and book is about, how they are the same but different.the movie and book are both pretty equal with its status of being similar but somehow there are little details that are different. In this essay it will be about the main differences and similarities of both of them. There are at least 15 differences that you might not have noticed, it could be important detail too. You might want to know these important things that go on in the book so you know what to point out automatically so you can show off your intelligence and memory skills. These changes might not be the most biggest difference but it’s worth knowing, it’s not always the big things in a book that are different in a movie, it could also be the little things because they can be interesting to you or someone might find it amazing when it’s not a big deal. One of the main changes is how much detail is said in the book but how little detail is shown in the movie. That’s like every …show more content…
The movie The color purple is mostly all woman and most of the time on the woman side during the whole movie. Why that is, is because their doing a lot of work a lot of action more than the men, the men are not doing much and the story/whole scene is manly about the woman and what they do or what happens to them, basically saying what they can say toward the men for discrimination. It’s not a good movie to see rape or sex according to the audience unless that’s what you like now in the book it gave detail, a lot of deep detail, and it doesn’t really harm anyones eyes. For example when Pecola was raped by her own father in the book it was detailed but it didn’t show pictures so that’s better yet and when cholly had sex with someone it was deeply detailed and

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