The movie, Girl Interrupted is about an eighteen-year-old girl, named Susanna Kaysen. She spent two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clients-Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles. The movie clearly defines the worlds perceptive of a mental hospital, and what goes on there. The yelling, screaming, and carrying on with the patients and nurses, is all of what is perceived to happen at a psychiatric hospital. In the book, its more in detail, the words carefully chosen, effectively creates a mental picture as you read the book.

Susanna was put there on request by her doctor, to rest, and to get better mentally. She was hallucinating, and was depressed and suicidal at times. There isn't much difference between the movie and the book. I was expecting the

If I had to read the book or watch the movie, I would much rather read the book. The book was in my opinion, much better than the movie, only because you could use your own perception and visuals of it. Yet, since I saw the movie ahead of time before I read the book, it kind of defeated the purpose of my reading it. But I am glad I did, because it opened my eyes to a lot of things, and to how much I would love to help those people.

I learned a lot from the dialogue that Susanna expressed. She talks about, as a mental patient, which has attempted suicide, takes medication, and has hallucinations, what she feels and what goes through her head. Reading this book definitely gives you an idea of what it's like to be in a hospital like that. It's scary and lonely, but you are there for a reason, and no one can make you get better, except yourself.

In Conclusion, whether this assignment was done correctly or not, I am proud of myself that I actually completed it. For me to actually read a book was a challenge in itself. But I am glad I did it, and I did try to do the best I could in comparing it, but it is one of those books that was a lot like the movie, yet just with more detail. I didn't want to make this sound like a book report. I loved the movie and the book, anything that will open your eyes to something new, is definitely worth trying. I'm just glad that I read this book, and I will definitely read something else, that is in comparison to the book I read.

re to be a world of difference, but there wasn't. In the movie, there was racial difference, where as the head nurse in the book was small and white, a

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