Girl Interrupted
Have you ever watched a movie and then found out it was created from a book? That's what happened to me, I saw the movie Girl Interrupted, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. I then heard that it was made from a book itself. So for this assignment, I decided to read the book and compare and contrast it from the movie. The movie, Girl Interrupted is about an eighteen-year-old girl, named Susanna Kaysen. She spent two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clients-Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles. The movie clearly defines the worlds perceptive of a mental hospital, and what goes on there. The yelling, screaming, and carrying on with the patients and nurses, is all of what is perceived to happen at a psychiatric hospital. In the book, its more in detail, the words carefully chosen, effectively creates a mental picture as you read the book. Susanna was put there on request by her doctor, to rest, and to get better mentally. She was hallucinating, and was depressed and suicidal at times. There isn't much difference between the movie and the book. I was expecting the
Most people are afraid of someone with a mental illness, and reading this book makes you more aware of what they go through, and why they are the way they are. She talks about, as a mental patient, which has attempted suicide, takes medication, and has hallucinations, what she feels and what goes through her head. I learned how deep a person with a mental illness thinks. I learned more from the book, as what goes on in a mentally ill person's head. In Conclusion, whether this assignment was done correctly or not, I am proud of myself that I actually completed it. To compare, the movie and the book, they both used the same names for the characters, as expected. Meaning, that Susanna whom is the main character, talks to herself a lot in the book. For me to actually read a book was a challenge in itself. It's on a very complicated subject that includes an extreme amount of detail. I think this assignment, was a really good idea, whether the students liked it or not. Yet, in the book, it's relevant that it's in the 60's. This story is hard to compare and contrast with a book and a movie. There were no big differences, in contrast between the movie and the book. The book was in my opinion, much better than the movie, only because you could use your own perception and visuals of it.
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