Books

      Books are better than movies. There are so many choices between books and movies; movies are based upon books, but which one is better than the other? I believe that books are better than movies because it’s at your own pace, reading is proven to help learning, and lastly because reading is more detailed.

            The differences between books and movies is that one is made by an author the other is produced by a director. Now with movies it’s usually about a two hour movie; while with books reading can take way longer depending how long the book is and how fast of a reader you are. The reason I prefer reading is because I get to read when I want, with movies it’s more difficult to stop in the middle of a movie because it seems like there is never a stopping point and since books occur in chapters, it’s easier to stop at a certain spot. Also if you get interrupted it’s easy to just stop and put the book down where with movies you have to try to find the remote or get up to go pause the movie from missing parts of it. Another thing about books is its quite easy to back and read the line if you didn’t really understand the meaning of it (or go look up the definition in the dictionary); whereas movies it’s more of a faster pace and easier to miss parts of it. Books can be read at YOUR pace; which is important to be able to understand what’s going on.

            Reading is proved to help with learning. Reading helps with vocabulary which in trun helps with speaking and increasing your vocabulary skills. Movies usually go by pretty fast and scripts are made ahead of time for the actors or actresses where a lot of parts have to be cut out from the book. Not only is reading good for vocabulary use, but it helps with understanding new concepts as well with the non-fiction proportion of books (could be fictional as well). Now with movies it’s usually easier to have everything summarized and more simple to watch, but books are very detailed whereas on a show they cannot because of the certain amount of time they get to explain a concept or plot.

            Lastly, books are more detailed than movies. Usually, movies have to cut out parts that the books contain. Also books describe the sense for you of everything that is occurring while movies have already done it for you; with my own experiences I’ve noticed that if a character in the books is blonde and you want them to be brunette it’s quite easy to change that in your head, while in the movie your just stuck with whoever the actor or actress is playing the role. By having more details it paints a better picture in your head as to what is taking place.