Similarities and Differences in the Characters

The characters and their actions are quite different in the book and in the movie. It really disappointed me in a lot of ways. There weren’t many similarities to be honest.

The differences were unreal! In the book, Jenner had already been gone, but in the movie Jenner was there and he was very evil. He tried to kill Mrs. Frisby, and had killed Nicodemus so that he could be in charge of all the rats. Nicodemus in the book wasn’t scary looking or old, but in the movie he was. Mrs. Frisby didn’t have magic powers in the book but she did in the movie. Also, in the movie Mrs. Frisby fell in the water while helping Jeremy nor did she loose her medicine that Mr. Ages made for Timothy. That didn’t happen in the book. Jeremy never met a girl crow in the novel, but did in the movie. The shrew (which was their neighbor) wasn’t the kid’s aunt, nor was she cranky in the book but she was in the movie! That really surprised me! At the end of the novel, Martin had said he wanted to go visit the rats and to figure out why they helped his family and which one died, so basically he wanted to know more about them. In the book Mrs. Frisby’s name wasn’t Mrs. Brisby, but it was in the movie! Also in the book, Paul was a character living at Mr. Fitzgibbons house, but in the movie he wasn’t existing.

The Similarities in the book and the movie were that they were the same amount of rats in the movie and in the novel, just different personalities and actions. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgibbon were the same except for the fact I thought they’d be older. Also, Billy is the same I pictured while reading the book, in the movie. Mrs. Frisby and the children aren’t any different in their looks as I also pictured in the novel. Jeremy was dumb in the movie as well in the novel.