Studying American literature: print vs. movies.
I think that print (books) is easier to study than movies. Here’s why. Books can have almost anything in them. You can tell what a character is thinking, feeling, and doing at any time. In a movie, you are only showed important details. And you cannot tell what a character is thinking or feeling. Their facial expressions may help, but what if someone is a bad actor or if there is bad directing. That could ruin the entire movie. Books explain everything and have no need for pictures on screen. Your imagination is the thing that books use. They let you see the story how your brain pictures it. Movies show you and don’t cost any brainpower. Something that movies have that books don’t is music. When you read a book you don’t imagine any music in the background. There might be a song in the book, but so many minds aren’t creative enough to make the words sound like music. Music can help you feel something or know when something is going to happen. It adds something to the story that is usually taken for granted, but it is important in any movie. When studying these two, books will be a lot easier to study, but at the same time harder. They are easier because you know a lot more. You are given a lot more information. They are a lot harder to study because there is more in a book than in a movie.