The book and the movie

By watching the movie Opal Dream and reading the book Pobby and Dingan, I found there could be many different things happens in two different things showing the same story. Both the movie and the book are talking about the lost of Kellyanne’s imaginary friend Pobby and Dingan. Kellyanne’s family meets many big challenges and does tons of work to find Pobby and Dingan to make Kellyanne better and to help their family became a better family again. During the process of these works, the family changes a lot with love and caring. However, there are many differences have been showed by the two ways of telling this story.

First of all, the personality of the chapters changed a little by comparing the book and the movie. For example, the book said that the father is a drunker and he is a totally drunker that he drinks to lost Pobby and Dingan. However, the movie shows a closer relationship between the father and Ashmol by seeing them go to claim together. Also, the father’s much more kind in the movie than in the book because he always smiles and being nice to the whole family. Then, for the mother, she isn’t focus on her hometown that much and she seems more sensitive in the movie than in the book. However, I think those changes of personality of characters make them better and more real person in the movie.

On the other hand, the ending is different. According to the book, Kellyanne died in the last scene of the book and the opal doesn’t come back at the end of the book. However, in the movie, it doesn’t tell if Kellyanne’s died or not and it leaves reader more room to imagine by their selves. Meanwhile, the funeral holder returns the opal back to Ashmol, and this make people feel more humanity in the movie than in the book. So, I like the movie better because it gave people more hope than the book does.

To conclude, both the book and the movie are really good to read and watch, even though the book was written in a much more childish way. Actually, I highly recommend people to watch the movie by seeing more details about the emotion and plot of the story. Lastly, I think it would make people to understand more information about the author’s mind.