5th Grade Movie/Book Comparison by Mr. Bardoni

Comparing & Contrasting a Book and Movie Instructions

damian_bardoni — 2019-03-12 15:42:20 UTC

Title: name of the book and movie
Author: who wrote the book.
Director: who made the movie.
Summary: write a short summary using the key events. (should be the same for both the movie and book)
Time/Place: compare how the time and place of each was the same or different.
Characters: compare how the characters were the same or different.
Plot: compare how the plot was the same or different.
Add-on/Omitted: What major scenes were added to the movie that were not in the book and what major scenes were not included in the movie that were in the book.
Evaluation/Conclusion: Write your thoughts/opinions about the book and movie.

Tuck Everlasting. Author: Natalie Babbitt. Director: Jay Russell. Summary Winnie gets kidnapped by the Tucks. The Tucks tell Winnie there secret. The Man In The Yellow Suit made a deal with Winnie's parents to get the woods for Winnie. He finds the tucks and tries to take Winnie but gets hit in the head with a shotgun. May Tuck gets arrested so the tucks brake her out.Time They both take place in the 1800's. But the movie starts in the future. Characters Winnie is 15 insted of 10 in the movie. Miles is way more mad. Winnie and Jessie's love shows more in the movie. Plot The plot in the book is the Tucks hiding in isalation with Winnie. The plot in the movie is about the love between Winnie and Jessie. Add- Ons In the movie, they add the scene where Winnie and Jessie kiss. The Man In The Yellow Suit alredy knows about the Tucks. Jessie shows Winnie the "Eiffel Tower". Winnie's dad sends out a BIG search party. The Man In The Yellow Suit pulled out a gun on Jessie to prove that the Tucks are lmortal. It shows Winnie and Jessie swimming in a watering hole. In the book, it talks about May going to the gallows. It shows the Tucks coming to Winnie at night. Conclusion

jkan2233 — 2019-03-13 13:50:07 UTC

There are a lot of things to compare. Theres also a lot of things to contrast. Overal, they both have a good story.

Eowyn Gozum Title: Tuck EverlastingAuthor: Natalie Babbitt Director: Jay Russel Summary of both book In the book, Winnie runs away because she is bored. She was kidnapped by the Tucks, The Tucks told her their secret, but the man in the yellow suit heard everything, he stole the Tucks horse, and told Winnie's parents that he knows where she is and he'll give it to them exchange with their forest. Winnie's parents agreed with the deal. The man in the yellow suit went to the Tucks house to get Winnie. Time/Place In the book it takes place in the late 1800. In the movie it takes place in the early 1900s. Characters Plot In the book, nothing happened between Jesse and Winnie, but in the movie theirs a kissing scene. In the book their is no playing between Jesse and Winnie, in the movie they are playing and Jesse showed Winnie the Eiffel Tower.Also, Winnie runs away because she is bored but in the movie she runs away because she is going to be sent to the boarding school.And the spring water is behind a tree in the book, but in the movie, it in front of a big tree. In the movie, it started at the end, and there's a lot of scene that was added that was not in the book.

egoz6826 — 2019-03-13 13:55:23 UTC

Tuck Everlasting book and movie comparison

bcla4003 — 2019-03-13 14:01:23 UTC

Title:"Tuck Everlasting".
Author: Natalie Babbitt Director: Jay Russell.
Summary: Winnie is running away because she is tired of being cooped up in a house and about to go to boarding school, when she runs away though..She meets Jesse who she then gets a crush on. In the end she has a choice, live forever with Jesse or be normal and die. And she choose to be normal. Time and Place: In the book it was in the late 1800's but in the movie it was the early 1900's. The place was way different in the beginning, because in the book they met in the log cabin but in the movie they met in the village.
Characters: In the book Winnie was about 10 while in the movie she was 16 or 17. In the book Miles wasn't that sad but in the movie he was really sad like .
Plot: It was really different in the book and movie like in the movie they met at the town but in the book they met at the house.
A Major Scene: One was that in the movie but not in the book, Jesse showing Winnie the so called "Eiffel Tower". Thoughts And Opinions: I remember watching the movie as a child and i thought that the book, this movie, this project even, was the best.

Logan

2019-03-13 14:04:26 UTC

it has different parts like when Winnie and Jesse kissed at a camp fire. When he pulled out a gun and the man in the yellow suit shot Jesse to test if he was immortal. like how she ran away so she can not go to boarding school instead of just because she was bored. or like how miles took her.like how the man in the yellow suit did not steel the horse from tuck. the man in the yellow suit mad a hole sherch party to find Winnie

Tuck Everlasting By. Eli Toliver

etol6462 — 2019-03-13 14:04:37 UTC

The Author is Natalie Babbitt
The director is Jay Russell
One of the key events is when Winnie Foster goes and meets the Tucks Miles does not like her at first but then he likes her. Then Jesse and Winnie fall in love and Jesse takes out and they talk. Then Miles shows up and they tell Winnie about the spring, then Miles starts to talk about how his wife left him and how his house/farm burned down.
The time in the movie looked like it was present day, the time in the book was like in the 1800 or the 1900.
The Characters are Winnie, Jesse, Mae, Miles, and Angus are the characters in the story.
When Winnie ran away from her house and found the Tucks well she actually found Jesse and then Miles came and he said that they have to kidnap her because his father said that if any one came on there territory then they would have to kidnap her.
One of the things that happend in the movie but not in the book is when Jesse showed Winnie the Eiffel Tower and climbed up the super tall mountain so that they could see the Eiffel Tower in a more beautiful ways, then after that he took her to the water were they jumped off.
One of the thoughts that I had about the movie is why did the man in the yellow suit try shoot Jesse?

Tuck Everlasting

iale4665 — 2019-03-13 14:48:41 UTC

Title: Tuck Everlasting
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Director: Jay Russell
Summary: A little girl named Winnie ran away because she is bored , she meets a family that can't die which is the Tucks. They talk about the importance of living and dying.
Time/Place: Both of them take place in Tree Gap . The movie takes place in the late 1900's but the book takes place in the late 1800's.
Characters: Winnie in the book is 10 years old girl that was bored, caring, privileged,and brave.She was the same in the movie but much older. Jesse Tuck in the movie and book is childlike, nice and adventurous. Miles Tuck in the book was easy going and calm , but in the movie he is angry and sad. Mae and Angus Tuck in the movie and the book were both very welcoming and nice to Winnie.
Plot: Winnie runs away because she is bored . Then she gets kidnapped by Mae Jesse and Miles. The Tucks reveled the secret once they kidnapped her, the story also mentions that Miles family had abandoned him. Then Mae goes to jail for 🤬 , Jesse Miles and Winnie break her out , but now they have to go someplace very far away so Jesse gives the water to drink at 17 but she gives it to a frog and Winnie lives to be 78 years old .In the movie the plot was Winnie runs away because she doesn't want to go to boarding
school and Winnie gets kidnapped by only Miles, it still mentions how miles family abandoned him. The Tucks secret wasn't reveled till later . then Mae and angus go to Jail instead of just Mae Jesse miles and Winnie break them out in a
different way. Instead of Jesse giving Winnie the water he tells her to drink the water but she doesn't drink the water and lives to be 100 years old.
Add-on/Omitted : The movie took out the were Winnie the water to the frog, the movie also added were Jesse and Winnie kiss and climb what Jesse calls the "Eiffel Tower".
Conclusion: On general I think every movie is better than the book because movies just show a lot more detail than the book so I thought the movie was better than the book cause it's much more interesting than a book.

Caleb Anderson Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt and the director Jay Russell.

cand7756 — 2019-03-14 12:39:54 UTC

Winnie ran away from home in the forest and met Jesse, Mae, and Miles
by the spring. Winnie starts to like Jesse and they go on crazy adventures. The man in the yellow suit tells Winnie's parents that he knows where Winnie is. The police and the man in the yellow suit found the Tucks and put Mae and Angus Tuck in jail. Winnie, Miles, and Jesse make a plan to get Mae and Angus out.
The year is in the 1800's or in the 1900's. The setting is different because Winnie is 10 in the book but 15 in the movie. Jesse is 17 in the book and in the movie. Mae and Angus Tuck was visiting the boys in the country. In the book she was with the boys in the country.
Jesse is 17 in the movie and in the book. Winnie is 15 in the movie but 10 in the book. Miles is a lot sadder about losing his wife and children in the movie. Miles is not that sad about losing his wife and children in the book. Miles is acting mean to Winnie in the movie but acting nice in the book. Jesse is in love with Winnie in the book and in the movie.
The plot in the book nothing happened between Winnie and Jesse. In the movie Winnie and Jesse kiss. In the movie the man in the yellow suit shoots Jesse. In the book the man in the yellow suit does not shoot Jesse. In the movie Mae and Angus do not go in jail. In the book only Mae goes to jail. There is to many scenes in the movie that were not in the book.
The scenes that were not in the book is the kissing scene, the playing scene, the Eiffel Tower scene, the scene that Mae and Angus were visiting Miles and Jesse only Mae goes to jail, man in the yellow suit does not have a gun, and there is a brick well. My opinion in both the movie an in the book I liked them both. The movie had some parts that I did not like but I still liked it. I think the book was better because it does not have the parts I did not like.

jwel9565 — 2019-03-14 12:42:05 UTC

Title: Tuck Everlasting
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Director: Jay Russell
Summary: is that Winnie ran away she meats a boy drinking ever lasting water but she does not now. The boys dad kidnapped her and took her to his place because he did not want them to now about the water. The boy and Winnie liked each other so she stayed for a few days her parents come find her and arrested the people that kidnapped her.
Time place: The boy and girl is usually out side for the movie this was some time in the afternoon.
Characters: they are different because in the movie Winnie ran away because of Borden school, and in the movie she ran away because she was board.
Plot: Is that the boy cant die, Winnie ran away, she thinks about drinking the everlasting water.
Add-on\Omitted: In the movie Winnie ran away because of Borden school, and in the book she ran away because she was board.
Evaluation\Conclusion: I think the movie and book was really good because it tells how it would be like to be alive for ever, i think it could be better by Jessie not going away and having a more happy ending.

nessa

nduk9513 — 2019-03-14 14:10:19 UTC

The title of  movie and the book is tuck ever lasting the author is  Natalie Babbitt  the director is jay Russell. The gist of the movie and the book is when Winnie ran away because in the Moive she did not want to go to Borden   but in the book she was bored of being trapped in the house. When she went in the woods  and meets the tucks Jesse,and Miles.  Miles kidnapped her because they wanted to tell about who died and who lived the Winnie stayed for a day or 2 when she got in the house the first time she did not belonged until day 2 she had a crush on Jessie. They was keeping a secret from Winnie it was about a Tuck (Miles). Miles had 2 kids and a wife  but one day is wife and his kids was leaving him.May(mother of the Tucks)was trying not to tell anyone but the stalker told Winnie parents and but when Winnie was going to get arrested. Time/place the movie went back when Jessie was looking for Winnie.The characters was the Tucks,the guy in the Yellow Suit, Winnie family, and Winnie.The plot of Tuck Everlasting was Winnie ran away from home because she did not want to go to Borden school ,then she got kidnapped by the tucks and stayed for 2 days and Winnie liked Jesse and he liked her.May went to Gail because a men for drinking spring water.

Tuck everlasting

tboh8252 — 2019-03-14 14:11:28 UTC

Title: Tuck Everlasting
Author: Natalie Babbitt

Director: Jay Russell

Summary: There is this one girl named Winnie who wants to live a free life but her parents wants her to live exactly like them. She decides to run away where she meets a guy named Jesse who is drinking from a spring and she decides she wants to drink from it too. She starts walking to the spring but is kidnapped by a guy who is Jesse brother, they bring her to the house where sh meets the whole family. She then learns that they are immortal and they talk to her about life and death.
Time/Place: In the movie they are around the 1900's while in the book they describe it like it is in the 1800's.
Characters: The characters are Winnie, Jesse,Miles,Ms.Tuck, and Tuck.
Plot:The plot was completely different because when it said in the bood that it was the 1800's in the movie it showed 1900's
Ad-dons: The one major scene that they dded on is the time where Jesse comes back in a motorcycle,
Conclusion: I thought the book was a bit dramatic and pther than that it was pretty good.

Kate RileyComparing & Contrasting a Book and Movie InstructionsTitle: Tuck Everlasting Author: Natalie Babbitt Director: Jay Russell.Summary: A girl gets bored and leaves her house. She saw a family the Tuck family and heard their family secret. The girl Winnie stays there for a little and one of the Tucks, Miles had kids but his wife left him and his kids. Jesse Tuck and Winnie Foster have feelings for each other. May mom of the Tucks was trying to save the secret and Winnie but she got arrested. Time and Place: The movie starts backwards it shows the end and then shows the beginning but the book has a different beginning. The movie has a motorcycle and not a horse. Winnie left because of school in the book she was bored.In the movie Miles was more sad and angry about his family leaving. For Winnie there was a search party and in the book there wasn't. In the movie there was kissing and in the book has nothing that makes them together.They took out Jesse climbing up the window and changed how the man and the yellow suit found out about the Tucks. Also in the movie Jesse and Winnie go to the "Eiffel Tower." They are similar by they have the same main idea. Also it took place in Tree Gap in 1800. When Winnie dies in the book she is 78 and in the movie she is 100.Characters: Winnie is 10 in the book and 15 in the movie.Jesse is 17 in both and basically the same in the book and movie.Miles seems older than what they said in the book.May is more lean than what they said in the book.Angst seems less happy and more sad than what Natalie Babbitt said.Add on: They added the "Eiffel Tower'' and the part where the man in the yellow suit follows them to the train. The movie did it started backwards but then went to the beginning. Jessie was the only one to visit Winnie. Conclusion: I prefer to read the book.The book makes it so Miles is less sad and the picture in my head is what makes it better for me. If you can't picture it watch the movie. Both have the same main idea.

kril3497 — 2019-03-14 14:16:00 UTC

Tuck Everlasting

kgra6825 — 2019-03-14 14:19:13 UTC

Title: Tuck Everlasting Author: Natalie Babbitt Director: Jay Russell
Summary: A girl named Winnie ran away into the woods her family owns.She then finds Jesse
her love interest in the story next to the spring but then Miles kidnaps her and take Winnie back to there home where she meets May and Angus. The man in the yellow suit comes to take Winnie back May kills him.My Opinion: I don't like the book because Winnie is 10 and Jesse is 17 years old and they like each other but in the book she is 15 and Jesse is 17 a little better. The book says that Jesse gives her a bottle of the spring water
so she can drink it when she was 17 so she can become immortal like them but she never drank it.

Tuck Everlasting

dbig8855 — 2019-03-14 14:25:38 UTC

Tuck everlasting by Natalie Babbitt and the director Jay Russell.
Winnie Foster ran away from home because she was being sent to boarding school in the movie. In the book she was bored. She finds a handsome boy named Jesse Tuck drinking from a spring. Jesse sees Winnie and stops her from drinking from the spring then Miles shows up and kidnap's Winnie. In the book, May, Miles,and Jesse kidnaps Winnie. The Tuck's welcome's Winnie into their home. Jesse and Winnie fall in love and kiss in the movie, but not in the book. While that happens, the man in the yellow suit tells Winnie's parents he will find their daughter for the wood's. Winnie's parents say yes so the man in the yellow suit. He finds Winnie and shoots Jesse in the movie in the book Winnie just it believes. to say the spring dose make you live for ever and the man in the yellow suit wants to sell it and May hits him with a shotgun ending is life and cop see's everything May go's to prison and poppa tuck go's to prison to not in the book just may in the book Mils,Jesse Winnie bust out may and poppa tuck in the book Jesse gives Winnie water from the spring and Winnie does not drink it and pass away and Jesse find Winnie grave on the spring in the move in the book it was May and poppa tuck that is my summery on the move and the book. The time is 1800's and Winnie is 10 in the movie Winnie was 15 and its set up in early 1900's.

"Tuck Everlasting" compare contrast movie and book

cbak8854 — 2019-03-14 14:29:30 UTC

Title: "tuck Everlasting"
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Director: Jay Russell
Summary: A girl named Winnie felt trapped by her parents and ran away she met the Tucks who took her in and a man tried to take something important to them he dies and everyone lived haply ever after.
Time/Place:100 years ahead of the book
Characters: Jesse likes Winnie and love scenes happen
Plot:the plot was the same
Add-on/Omitted: The man in the yellow suit has no connection to the family and it's 100 years ahead
Evaluation/Conclusion: the movie is better but only for the love side of things

Ondrej

osec1255 — 2019-03-15 12:58:21 UTC

Title: Tuck Everlasting
Author:Natalie Babbit
Director:Jay Russell

Summary: Winnie a ten year old girl runs away cause she is bored of being cooped up in a house.She runs away then she gets kidnapped by Miles,May,and,Jesse tuck they tell her the secret about the spring.May gets arrested for murdering the man in the yellow suit and is sent to the gallows.
Movie summary:It starts off jesse in the 2000.Winnie runs away because she going to be sent to boarding school Miles and Jesse kidnap Winnie .They sent a searching party for Winnie. The man in the yellow found the tucks and runs off to get them he takes Winnie only to get hit with a shotgun and die.
Time/place:In the book it takes place in the late 1800s in the movie it takes place in the early 1900s because they had early cars.
Charters:May was plump,motherly ,Caring,kind in the book In the movie she was not plump,Less motherly except for one scene,She was still caring and kind.Miles was more excepting that he was never going to die in the book in the movie he was like tuck it is like they switched roles he was always sad and tuck was more excepting though.
Plot:The plot is basically the same. They are both about how Winnie runs away she discovers a family who is invincible she gets sent to be looked for by The man in the yellow suit finds Winnie.He tries to get the water but dies by getting hit in the head with a shotgun.
Add-ons: They added a scene with Jesse and Winnie going to an Eiffel Tower not the actual one but yeah so the scene is used for development between them for love.I also forgot they added a scene in the beginning where Jesse is riding to a house in the year 2000.
Conclusion:The book was great the characters really played their roles.The plot made really feel bad for the tucks knowing they would see all their friends die. It was the only reason i didn't hate when recess ended it really showed how close Winnie got to the tuck in the span for a couple of days so over all great.The movie was good not as good as the book but okay i didn't like how Angus and May weren't there as much I am pretty sure that they only got like 10 to 20 minutes of screen time.I Get that Winnie gets a lot of screen time because she is our main character but Jesse was like there almost for the movie that's just me probably.

Jordynn B😧

2019-03-15 14:06:49 UTC

Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt is the author and the director is Jay Russel.
Winnie runs away and gets kidnapped by Miles Tuck, then Winnie starts to like them, but The Man in The Yellow Suit tells Winnie's family that he knows where she is and they go out to find her then Mae and Angus go to the gallows for killing the Man in the Yellow suit. Later everyone else goes to create a distraction to free Mae and Angus, when they free them they go to leave Winnie.
Time/Place
In the movie it was placed near the Tucks house and in the late 1900s.
In the book it is placed in the early 1800's throughout the whole woods.
Characters
In the book Winnie was 10 years old, but in the movie she was 15. She was also very happy and caring.
Jesse is adventurous and caring in both the book and the movie .
Mae and Angus are both very maternal and are motherly and fatherly to Winnie.
Plot
The plots are the same because they are both focusing on Winnie and Jesse and their relationship
Add-on / Omitted
The scene where Jesse and Winnie are climbing what Jesse calls the "Eiffel Tower."
Conclusion
I think the movie is better because you can have more details but you should read the book before you watch the movie.

💕Tuck Everlasting💕

egoz6826 — 2019-03-15 16:01:35 UTC

Author: Natalie Babbitt
Director: Jay Russel Summary:
Winnie runs away because she is bored. She was kidnapped by the Tucks. The Tucks told her their secret, but the man in the yellow suit heard everything. He stole the Tucks horse, and told Winnie's parents that he knows where she is and he'll give it to them, exchange with their forest.
Winnie's parent agreed. The man in the yellow suit went to the Tucks house to get Winnie.
Time/Place
In the movie, the time is around 1900s.
In the book, the time is around 1800s.
Characters:

Winnie is older. Miles is sad and always mad.