Movies vs Books

   Watching a movie is a great way to relax with family or friends. You can watch a comedy to make you laugh, a romance to make you cry or a horror to frighten you half to death. Movies are also used by students who want to get out of the commitment of reading a novel for a course. Instead of reading The Hobbit in grade 11 like a great deal of students have to do, majority of eleventh grades this year and for years to come will more than likely just watch the movie. Much in the same way teens say they are the biggest fans of the Twilight saga, yet they have never read so much as a page of the novels. Movies do not give the same detail and emotion as books. Books can give you the inner most thoughts of the characters: how they feel, what they think, if they are tired, nervous or depressed. These are things you can’t get with movies. Sure, you can tell a lot about a person’s feelings by their body language but that too can be described by the art and skill of a talented writer. In this particular quote from the first novel of the saga “Twilight” you get so much detail from the description of Bella’s thoughts. “I peeked up at him one more time, and regretted it. He was glaring down at me again, his black eyes full of revulsion. As I flinched away from him, shrinking against my chair, the phrase if looks could kill suddenly ran through my mind.” All that information just from one look, that is something you would never pick up on from a film. So although movies are quick and easy ways to get the gist of a plot, the much more powerful and captivating way is to take the time and read the novel. Once you start you will never feel the same way about movies again.