Many movies or films are based on books. Some people prefer to read the original book before they watch the movie, while others prefer to watch the movie before reading the book. Which one do you prefer?
John lovingly perused the letters that Savannah had written to him during the course when he was missioned in Afghanistan. He safely stored and kept all the love letters that Savannah had sent to him as a way of proving her affection for him and confirming that she would wait for him. When John returned home, Savannah, however, was no longer here and everything that John was familiar with had drastically altered. This is the denouement of a very famous romantic movie called Dear John, based on a romantic fiction by Nicolas Sparks’ 2006 novel of the same name, which however has a totally different ending. Nowadays, movies that are adapted from books have caught on, becoming more and more prevalent. The majority of people prefer to watching movies before reading books since they probably have little time to finish the entire book or they enjoy visual and sound effects that movies can bring forth. However, as a bookworm, I lean towards reading the original book first before heading to the theater to watch the cinematic adaptation.
To begin with, reading original books gives me more time to digest the information and the plot in a more detailed and careful way, thus giving me a full picture of the story. To be more specific, movie adaptations typically have to condense long-winding stories into a one- or two-hour screen time, so such movies might have to leave out some essentially minute, if not all, components. Therefore, I might not be able to enjoy the full story. Such privilege, however, is not lost on reading books first. I recently finished reading George Orwell’s 1984, a fictional work that delineates a dystopian society, where the ruling party controls and manipulates every single fabric of the society. The novel invests a lot of space into describing how the protagonist Winston Smith conjured up ideas and actions to attempt to overthrow the ruling party, the Big Brother and how he spent time dating and caressing his love affair Julia. The novel also delineates the process of torturing him and the tools used once Smith was caught red-handed for having the intention of subverting the government. The language used in the novel is very detail-oriented and vivid. However, I watched a movie adaption later, and since the movie was only about an hour-long, it narrated and moved along the story in a very abrupt manner. The story seemed pretty chopping and disconnected since the screen time forced the director or the producer to leave out essential parts. For instance, Julia and Smith were only together before they got caught by Thought Police in the movie, whereas in the story, they did not get arrested for about half a year until someone else betrayed their secret love affair and subverting motives.
Furthermore, reading original books allows me to imagine more widely. That is, if I watch movie adaptations from the get-go, my thoughts and the images formed when reading books after might be significantly framed and influenced by movies themselves. Therefore, I might not be able to let my thoughts roam free or have my own imagination since my trains of thought would be directly or indirectly clouted by the presentation of movies. For example, the fiction A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood depicts a sullen English professor who leads a soulless life after his partner got killed in a car crash. The author paints the story with many descriptive elements and rhetorical devices in his depiction so that as a reader, I could form a wide variety pictures of what kinds of emotions that the protagonist George was undergoing in the story. The 2009 drama film with the same name, however, focuses more on using facial expressions to depict the characters’ emotional state. The issue with using facial expressions is that it might not be able to issue out that much of depth and profundity as words might. Therefore, I cannot discern how sad or gloomy or heart-broken George was, if these layers of emotions meant differently, since there was always one kind of sad expression on his face.
Irrefutably, some movie-lovers might disavow my arguments by claiming that watching movies first allows them to get the gist of the story and exuberant, colorful images shown on the big screen also gives them a venue to experience the story as if they were in the story. However, I believe that reading books first before watching movie adaptations would be even better since readers can swim in the sea of words and texts, without being confined to whatever interpretations being imposed on viewers by movies. After all, just as Frederick Douglass once said, “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'watch'?
Suggestion: watch
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...intention of subverting the government. The language used in the novel is very deta...
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...t the characters' emotional state. The issue with using facial expressions is ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, so, therefore, thus, well, whereas, after all, for example, for instance, kind of, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 15.1003584229 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 31.0 13.8261648746 224% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.0286738351 181% => OK
Pronoun: 60.0 43.0788530466 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 99.0 52.1666666667 190% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3903.0 1977.66487455 197% => OK
No of words: 786.0 407.700716846 193% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.96564885496 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.29487408139 4.48103885553 118% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66803357591 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 397.0 212.727598566 187% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505089058524 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 1219.5 618.680645161 197% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 11.0 3.08781362007 356% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.6003584229 141% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 57.861842916 48.9658058833 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.586206897 100.406767564 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1034482759 20.6045352989 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.65517241379 5.45110844103 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 11.8709677419 152% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.271584554092 0.236089414692 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0683162218098 0.076458572812 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0877275705809 0.0737576698707 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17123820205 0.150856017488 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0596216167458 0.0645574589148 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 11.7677419355 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 58.1214874552 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.1575268817 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 10.9000537634 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 188.0 86.8835125448 216% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.002688172 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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