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Adapting Book 2

Some challenges the author would have putting the book in the big screen is, finding the actors that fit the characters in the book.   If certain characters let’s say has a certain hair style, or look.  If the actor that chooses to be her is different, the actor may have to change to be the character. 

Three scenes that are essential to keep are when they are at the arena with the 12 districts, or 24 kids, and fight to the death.  This is important because this is the climax of the book, this is where everything happens.  Cutting it out will be a horrible decision.  Also when Katniss volunteered as tribute for her younger sister Prim.  This part is the main reason why Katniss is in the Hunger Games.  If this were to be out then, the movie would not make sense and it would not go with the book.  Lastly, the scene when Katniss try to overthrow the government.  This scene is important because this is where they try to not let kids fight to the death and waste their lives. This is the semi-climax (sorta climax, little below it).  If this were to be taken out we would not know whether or not there be more Games in the future. 

The scenes they can cut out are the preparation for the arena, such as the dressing up parts.  This part may not be intriguing for boy viewers.  This scene is all dressing up, looking beautiful for sponsors etc.  a guy might not like this scene of the movie.  Also, they can cut out the beginning when Gale and Katniss are in the woods.  That is not important how she and Gale are in the woods.   

Book 1 Project

An idea to make Everlost a more popular book is to make it into a movie that is closely similar to the book.  Since a lot of books became popular from movies, such as the Harry Potter series and the Hunger Games series, if there was a movie for the book Everlost, the book would be popular too.  To get more people to watch the movie so the book can get popular, the movie actors can be the popular actors or new actors.  Typically, popular actors get more viewers since they are more famous than the new actors; also they have more experience with acting.       

There are a lot of scenes in the book that will be eye-catching to viewers of the movie.  Some scenes we could use are, their arrival in Everlost, leaving of Everlost, and some important people, good and bad, they meet along the way.

The arrival begins after the car crash and when the kids, Nick and Allie, woke up from a deep and long sleep.  When they woke up, they woke up to a boy they named Lief.  Lief waited day and night, trying his best to wake them.  Lief explained they were in Everlost, a place between life and death, in other words they were ghost.  But the proper word is called Afterlights.  He also explained they can only stand on dead spots, spots where a death occurred.  Non dead spots are bad places to stand because they will drown and end up in the Earth’s core.  “He didn’t tell them how every day for nine months he kicked and prodded them, and hit them with sticks hoping it would jar them awake”.   They came to conclusion that it made sense for a person to be nine months to be born; it would also take nine months to be dead.  (Shusterman 18)

The characters they met along the way are well known.  Mary, the leader of the group she owns to keep kids in Everlost safe and happy.  Allie, Nick and Lief traveled there, hoping to find answers and trying to find a way out of Everlost.  Allie didn’t get along too well with Mary.  Lief didn’t speak to Mary that much, because he was playing Pac-man in the basement.  He would do it every day; this would eventually be a system for him.  A repetition of the same thing you do continuously is called a niche.  It isn’t hard to get into one but, it’s hard to get out of one.  Nick was very fond with Mary.  When Nick and Mary were alone, Mary talked about her story about her first arrival in Everlost.  The loss of Mary’s brother touched Nick’s heart, so he leaned in for a kiss.  “Then he leaned toward her, and he kissed her”.   (Shusterman 101)

Another character is the Haunter and the McGill.  They both are bad guys in this book.  The Haunter knows how to connect with the real world.  “He can show you how to move things in the living world, make yourself heard to the living-and maybe even seen”. (Shusterman 111)  The McGill captures kids and uses them as a slave. Majority of them were hanged in the bottom of his ship.  “They swung like pendulums as she pushed through them, all of them grumbling and gripping at having been disturbed.  She tried to be gentle, but the forest of dangling spirits clearly did appreciate her intrusion” (Shusterman 196)

Later on the story, they found a way out of Everlost.  Everyone got a coin when they have arrived Everlost.  But in the beginning they were told to make a wish and drop it in a fountain in front of Mary’s house before entering.  They saw a girl, Meadow, disappear holding her coin.  “Then Meadow ran toward the fountain, jumped in, and a moment later she was gone”.  (Shusterman 309)

I think using a movie for making Everlost a popular book will work because, most books to all books became popular from successful movies of the books.  Showing the movie gives an idea to the audience what the book is about and whether or not the book fits their interest.   People read books and later found out it wasn’t what they like or what they are interested in.  Showing the movie shows the audience the style and the kind of book it is.  So before reading the book and wasting the time doing so, the movie can show you without wasting your time.  If the audience likes the movie, they would probably read the book.  Thus, making the book more popular, which is the goal.  

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