Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh


In my grade seven class we read “Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh,” we also watched, “The Secret Nimh”. It’s the same idea but the events happen at different times.

In the book and the movie I spotted a couple of similarities, so here they are. I’ve noticed that there are rats, Mrs. Frisby’s still in there and so is Dragon. They also managed to squeeze in how Mrs. Frisby snuck into Mr. Fitzgibbon’s house to put powder in Dragon’s food, also the hole that the rats found to sneak in to Mr. Fitzgibbon’s house to place the powder in Dragon’s food. Another thing is that the rats moved to Thorn Valley. All the same characters in there.
Now that we talked over the similarities let’s talk about the differences. Here are some differences I’ve noticed. The necklace that Mrs.Frisby was given not magical in the book but in the movie it lit up to get the kids and the house out of the mud. Nicodemus doesn’t die in the book but he dies in the movie. In the book the settings were the laboratory and around the farm but in the movie the settings were at the farm and where the rats got the powder ready. Another thing I noticed that the cylinder that Mrs. Frisby lived in, did not sink but in the movie it sunk.
So as you can see what you read it books does not always happen in the movies.