Category Archives: Book into Movie

Finding Beauty in the Desolate

In the future, all plant life is dead, the sun no longer shines, there is constant rain and snow, it is cold and strangers are deadly. What keeps a person moving? What would keep you moving? These are the questions pondered in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road. Overall, the movie adaptation stays [...]
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Book into Movie: Horton Hears a Who

Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss is about an elephant, Horton, who hears a tiny voice that no one else can hear. The voice is on a tiny speck. To save the speck, Horton puts it on a clover. Danger lurks when the sour kangaroo confronts Horton and tells him that he is a [...]
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Book into Movie: The Time Traveler’s Wife

Warning: review contains spoilers.  I could not write the review without giving away some parts of the movie.  I tried really hard to write a spoiler-free review and found I could not.  But if you enjoy spoilers, read away. The Time Traveler’s Wife is about a man, Henry, who has a rare genetic anomaly which allows [...]
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Book into Movie: The Mist

Like most Stephen King novels, The Mist, takes place in Maine after a vicious storm. A mist starts to creep up onto the mainland from the water. The mist soon takes over the land and people who go into it do not come back. Before the mist comes into the land, the main character, David, [...]
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Book into Movie: Atonement

Literature as Redemption Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Atonement by Ian McEwan is about redeeming a wrong that can be undone.  The story begins with an older Briony recounting the love affair between her older sister, Cecelia, and [...]
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