Movies and books each have their good part and bad part. Books are usually better than movies, but movies are sometimes better than books, too. Movies can do many things that books can’t. Movies can convey a meaning in one picture, whereas it might take ten pages in a book to convey the same meaning. Movies are also clearer than books. For books that are very difficult and hard to understand like The Tale of Two Cities, or The Scarlet Letter, their movies are better. I couldn’t really picture the scenes in The Tale of Two Cities, but after I watched the movie, I understood the plot better. Books can do many things that movies can’t do, too. For plots that have characters with inner conflicts, books are better at carrying out the story. For example, in The Red Badge of Courage, the main character Henry Fleming had a lot of inner conflicts. Henry Fleming kept thinking whether he should stay and fight, or run away. He also made up a lot of excuses in his mind and assumed that things are the way he pictured them. If The Red Badge of Courage were a movie, than it would just show a young boy running around with a thoughtful face. It would be pretty hard to act out Henry Fleming’s inner conflicts.
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