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Film and Books
Does a movie have the power to tell a story better than the novel? In Janet Fitch's novel "White Oleander" we follow a girl named Astrid Magnusson as she moves from foster home to foster home, due to her mother being put in prison for murder. When you take a book and turn it to a movie you have to loose some of the detail for time purposes. For example the book has more time to develop characters and explain who they are, where the movie has an hour or two to tell the whole story. Films also change some of the information so it is easier for the viewer to understand. Changing a characters name, switching events around or even changing the setting can help tell the story but could also make it harder to understand.
The movie stayed true to most of the characters in the book it never altered any of their personalities but at the same time did not explain in full detail. The movie stays very true to the character of Ingrid Magnusson who is Astrid's mother and......

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