Gayle Forman's If I Stay

Many people may agree that the movie was better, but personally, i think the book was better. The book let your imagination go wild, but the movie just held your imagination back by showing you the scene on a screen. Unlike the movie, the book gave a more vivid description of “The Tell Tale Heart” by telling you every single detail. That is why I think the book was more enjoyable to read instead, of watching the movie.

I much preferred the movie version to the novel. For me, author William Kennedy’s style of writing is needlessly vague and difficult to follow, yet he did a wonderful job adapting

I think the movie is better than the book because it’s more visual, has more action, and has props.

It would get a picture in my head of these injuries and I couldn't put down the book because I wanted to know which character would get hurt or end up dead next. The detail of these gruesome injuries was something that I did not enjoy in the book The book is filled with some much action it almost feels tedious.

If I stay, which is an outstanding novel written by Gayle Forman, was published in 2009 and is an emotionally gripping story. The most interesting part of the novel starts with Mia’s life after the accident. The readers also learn about her life before the tragedy with the help of plentiful flashbacks. She recalls her colorful and vibrant family members so vividly that they could easily step off the page and break the hearts of the readers. Furthermore, her remembrances also highlight her passion for music and romance with her boyfriend. Moreover, the readers will find the entire novel very interesting and inspiring and will also find the climax of the novel very satisfying. The story revolves around seventeen year old Mia, who finds herself dealing with the aftermath of a terrible car accident which killed her entire family. During the coma, Mia goes through an out-of-the-body experience and observes all her friends and family that gather at the hospital. The memory of Mia flashes before her and she debates about whether or not she should wake up and face the grief of losing her family or, if she should die. Before summarizing the story, it is pertinent that the main characters of the story should be discussed briefly.

Both share the same plot, and there are very little differences between the two. These are a few of the differences that I was able to notice between the book and the movie. There are several others throughout the story, but they are all just as minute and in the end they have no effect on the outcome of the story. Overall, I was very impressed with the movie and it was very true to the book. I have seen my share of movies that were adaptations from books that did not do the book justice, but this one is almost exactly like the book, so it was very

Finally there are lots of differences between the book and the movie. They also show that the movie was a lot weaker then then the book. I can see the movies aren't always better than the books. The books go more into detail than the movie. I enjoined the movie because it is more visual. The book was a little

The book is better because it gives more excitement and emotion. The book just explains each of the events in great detail. I don’t know about other people, but for me the more information there is, the more I understand it. And in the movie of “The Outsiders”, it does not really say much about what’s going on. For instance, when Johnny dies, in the movie, Ponyboy goes home but it does not tell how long he had been out. In the book, Pony is walking home from the hospital and a man asked him if he wanted a ride (Hinton 151). Though others might think that the movie is better because it visualizes the events that are happening. But, even though it envisions what the book tells about does not mean that it is one hundred percent better.

The book tells the same story as the movie but in a different way it cuts out thing the movies has or the movies adds thing that's not in the book. The book has some not many similar but . I feel the director was unfaithful to the book.The book and movie version of Our America had many differences.

I enjoyed the book more than the movie because it gave more time and detail into the story. The movie felt like it moved really fast, forgetting many of the important parts that were shown in the book. The book flowed nicely, giving the reader a chance to feel like they are in the story, but the movie didn’t give me a chance to understand these characters. I feel like if I watched the movie first, I would not understand the characters and their emotions as much as when I read the book first. Finally, I would have included the daughters of Mary and Mary Day more in the movie. Without it, it would be harder for the watcher to understand what the purpose of them is. All in all, I enjoyed the book much more than the movie due to its amount of detail and spacing of

The film is better because rather than a book, which most people would rather to read, they are more likely to watch a film that turns up on T.V. Most people don’t pick up a book after high school but a film is something that people frequently watch. In addition to the massive range of the film, it, unlike the book, is presented with audio cues and visual images that the book lacks. Individuals, who don’t have the time or patience to read a book that is only words, can watch an animated and indulging film that diffuses the same message as the book and perhaps, even more because of all the characters that come to play in the

I definitely preferred the book and if anybody asks for a recommendation I would tell them DON'T WATCH THE MOVIE! My mom and I both agreed that the movie wasn't nearly as good as the book. I felt the book captured the true meaning of friendship, love, and death but the movie did not. The movie wouldn't have made sense if I hadn't read the book. Uggg. Also I hated the person who played Max. He is a terrible actor. He didn't look like somebody that was starving and scared for his life. I also felt like the movie didn't really instill the same feelings as the book. In the book where you could read all of Deaths thoughts but in the movie nothing made you scared for the characters. Bleh. I felt that the characters were not represented very well. Rosa was not as cruel, Liesel didn't have any outbursts except for the fight, Rudy was like the book but there wasn't enough. Liesel and Rudy’s friendship wasn't as strong in the movie. And of course the movie left out TONS of extremely important

The characters are also shown differently in the movie than you might expect, which takes away some from the overall effect the original book had. Finally, the book does a better job of showing the setting and

I think in the book you can really feel the emotions of the characters more. I felt like I was there in the book. I also did in the movie, but not as much. The book goes into more details of the characters, so I felt like I really knew them. When Johnny and Dally die in the book, I felt like I was somewhat losing a friend, also. When I watched the movie I didn’t feel as much that way. In the book I think I really understood what was happening. I knew what was happening in the movie, but most of the time only because I had read the book first. For example, I wouldn’t

What if the world that one knows comes to an end? What if one day one wakes up and everything one once knew suddenly changes? “What and if two words as nonthreatening as words come But put them together side-by-side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: ‘What if?'...”(Friedman, Letters To Juliette 2006). “What” and “if” are two words that haunt Mia as she has an out-of-body experience after a terrible car accident. Published in 2009, “If I Stay” is a young adult novel written by Gayle Forman. The story follows as the 17-year-old music talented, Mia Hall experience a car accident that killed her whole family. In a coma, Mia has decision to make that would determine her fate. She has to choose whether she fights for