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I have to say that I really enjoyed the article this week. I am not really into biology…. I have a lot of friends in the sciences and I just don’t get it. However, relating biology to books and movies, that gets my attention. \u00a0My mind was turning as I read the article and thought at the same time about the activity for class this week. What would I bring? What would I choose? Especially since the article got me thinking about some adaptations in a way I had never thought about them before. Relating the adaptation of text to biology made it suddenly seem so clear that adaptations of literature should be more about how the adaptation stands on its own and less about how it compares to its “roots”.<\/p>\n
I am a bit of a movie buff so I went to my shelves to see just how many of my collection started out as books, or tv shows, or are even an adaptation of another movie. It was shocking to realize just how many of them were adpatations… and that is only the obvious ones! I didn’t look them all up. I am sure there are more!<\/p>\n
I got thinking about my all time favourite book, Little Women by Louise May Alcott. I will talk more about this in class this week but for now, I had an idea. I wanted to compare a scene from the book to a scene from the original 1939 screen adaptation. I choose the party scene towards the beginning of the novel and read them both. They are so drastically different! I decided to put the texts into wordle to see how they would display. It was tricky because with the screenplay I had to choose to include the names of the characters that label their lines, or not. I choose to remove them and just stick to the dialogue.<\/p>\n
This is the novel:
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