Ray Bradbury's The Small Assassin

Im comparing the fictional short story wrote by Ray Bradbury, The Small Assassin to its tv adaptation. The book and its film adaptation share many likeness, but also contrast each other in many ways. In my paper I will be comparing the likes and dislikes of these two versions of The Small Assassin. In both the book and film Alice shows resentment towards the baby from the moment it is born. Alice, in the book did not feel love for the baby as soon as it was born, In fact she resented it. From the beginning she thought she was “being murdered secretly without people even knowing” she knew it was a “little murderer” (Page 1, The small Assassin book). This is exactly how how she thought of the baby in the beginning although it did not go into depth on her thoughts you could really see the resentment she had towards the baby when …show more content…
After Alice had died, Doctor Jeffreys, left David alone in his bed. He knocked him out with sleeping pills so he would sleep easier. When he came the next morning he “smelt gas in the house”, that's when he ran up stairs to “find that the gas had been turned on” and it “had killed David”(Page 13, The Small Assassin book). In the movie, David died at the bottom of the stairs not in the his room. Their bedroom is actually where Alice was found dead by Doctor Jefferys in the movie. This is one of the big differences between the story and the film because it is the exact polar opposite from what was shown in both the variations of the story. A good number of Ray Bradbury's works were adapted into films, a lot of them also contrasted their book counterpart like in this book, The Small Assassin. The book and the Film are two very different versions of the same story. I found the film was very different in many aspects. It lack narrative where the book did not. This is what I think made the Book, The Small Assassin, different from its movie

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