Hoot: Similarities Between The Book And The Movie

Hoot Hoot; a book. Hoot; a movie. Hoot; a movie and a book, so different yet so alike. Beatrice Leep, Roy Eberhardt, Mullet Fingers, and a whole lot of trouble. The ways of the owls; the ways of the humans; team owls or humans? Hoot is a very well known book, as well as, a well known movie. The main ideas of the book and movie are the same but, when you get into details, things become a little more different. For example, in the movie Officer Delinko says “Where’d all these holes come from?”, when he steps in an owl burrow. In the book he asks “Where did all of these burrows come from?” Some of the bigger differences there were was that when Officer Delinko’s car got painted he didn’t get one of those meter maid carts, like he did in the movie. Also, in the book he drove Roy’s parents to the hospital in his car where as in the movie, he couldn’t because he had a meter maid cart. Another difference was that at the groundbreaking ceremony Mullet Fingers was not in an owl burrow like he was in the book. These differences kind of throw the book and movie out of whack. There were a lot of similarities in the book and movie Hoot. Some of the main similarities were the names, the overall main idea, the school they went to, and the way the …show more content…
I feel that since the book was written before the movie came out it all should’ve been the same. I also think that since it wasn’t all the same in the movie, it was a disgrace to the author. In the movie I felt like the characters should have been younger, because I think they were being immature for their age. I also did not like that in the movie they went through everything so fast. The overall effect of the book of the book just seemed to settle better with me, which is surprising because I hate reading. Overall I think that the book and movie are both really good. I learned that just because a book and movie have the name, it doesn’t mean that they are just a