Question

Compare the characteristics in the film version of the story to their descriptions and actions in the print version of treasure island and treasure planet. How are they alike? How were they different?

Answer 1

Similarities between the movie and the book

• The main character was Jim Hawkins both in the movie and the book
• Jim Hawkins met a Swashbuckler called Billy Bones
• Billy Bones gave Jim a chest both in the book and the movie
• Jim managed to escape John Silver and find refuge on the Island both in the book and the movie.

Differences between the movie and the book

• Jim Hawkins was 13 years old in the book but 15 years old in the movie
• Jim's father passed away in the book but the movie showed that he abandoned Sarah, his wife and Jim when he was at a tender age. Jim also has a great resentment toward s his father in the movie
• Jim was also called James P. Hawkins in the movie
• Billy Bones, in the movie, was a specie of evolved lizard
• The location used in the book was the English Coast while Planet Montressor was used in the movie
• The chest given to Jim by Billy Bones contained a logbook containing the flint's information while in the movie, it contained a golden sphere
• In the book, John Silver was a typical pirate but in the movie, he pretended to be a cook who only showed an act of mutiny when the ship is in the treasure planet
• The mutiny in the book begins when the boat reaches the shore