1. Which characters were included in
the movie and which ones were left
out?
2. Which characters had major roles in
the movie, and are they similar or different from the major characters in the
novel? Which ones had minor roles?
3. Do you get to know the characters
in the movie as well as you do in the
novel?
4. Do you get to know as many of the
characters in the movie as you do in the
novel?
5. Do the characters in the movie seem
as real to you as those in the novel?
6. Which characters do you prefer, the
ones you met in the movie or the ones
you met in the novel?

1. How are the settings similar?
2. How are they different?
3. What aspects of the setting were a
surprise to you in how they looked and/
or sounded?
4. Which settings were more exciting,
the ones described in the novel or the
ones shown in the movie?

1. How closely did the movie follow the
plot events from the novel?
2. What events from the novel were
included?
3. Which events were left out? Why
weren’t they included in the movie?
4. Which plot events seemed more exciting in the movie versus what you read
in the novel?
5. Which plot events should have been
included but weren’t?

1. What themes, or valuable lessons (if
any), did you learn from the movie?
2. Were any new themes introduced
that weren’t covered in the novel, and if
so, what were they?
3. Which one was more meaningful to
you, the movie or the novel?
4. What symbols, if any, were evident in
the movie?
5. What do those symbols mean?
6. If you were to recommend either the
movie or the novel to a friend, which
one would you recommend and why?