One of the major things that books allow for, but not movies, is the ability to use your imagination to create a world. In a book you may have some aspects of a person or surrounding laid out, but in the end it's up to the individual to create their own picture. Books also allow for longer and more detailed stories. For example, Harry Potter was made into a move, but innumerable scenes from the book were cut. This sometimes impedes the overall impression or storyline as it was intended. Books also are able to establish the fantastical in what I believe to be a much more convincing and symbolic way. In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest the first scene involves Broom watching the Big Nurse swelling up and whirring with machinery. The movie, in order to establish reality, could not do this. In a book the author is limited only by imagination, but in movies there are limits of money, time, and reality.
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Janine
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