The Bird

A detailed Summary of The Bird

At 1952, Dame Daphne du Maurier wrote a short story named "The Birds". Maurier was born on 1907 at London, England. The idea for this famous story came to her one day when she was walking across to Menabilly Barton farm from her house. She saw a farmer busily plowing a field whilst above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed the idea about the birds becoming hostile and attacking him. Then at 1963 Alfred Hitchcock directed a movie "The Birds" which was based on Maurier's story, and an attack of birds on 1961 at Santa Cruz, California. Alfred Hitchcock, known as "The Master of Suspense" was born at 1899 in Leytonstone, England. Maurier's "REBECCA" (1938), was also filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940. Although I couldn't find any thoughts of Maurier about the movie "REBECCA", I found that she disliked the movie "The Birds" because In her story, the birds become hostile after a harsh winter with little food, first the seagulls, then birds of prey and finally even small birds, all turn against mankind. The nightmarish idea appealed to Hitchcock who turned it into the celebrated film. Daphne also particularly disliked the translation of the setting from Cornwall, with its small fields and stone hedges, to small-town

As there are many points of contrast, there are some comparison points too. First, the conflict of the whole story is really close. It is about human versus nature, and shows how people struggle wit nature. Also the way of foreshadowing is similar too. In the story Nat sees strange behavior of birds, and in the movie, Hitchcock show two lovebirds behave strangely at bird shop in San Francisco. The way acting of people around main characters is similar too. In the story, Nat talks about birds that attacked his home to three people he knows, but none of them believes him. In the movie, Melanie talks about how birds attacked school to people in bar, but none of people seriously believes. As a result, those people who did not believe, and did not get ready for birds' attack they die in the story, and run away in the movie. Another similarity is way of making suspense. In the story, Maurier uses screaming of children, and in the movie Hitchcock uses attack on children too.

America. As one above, there are many differences and similarities in this story and movie. In this essay, I will be comparising and contrasting between the story and the movie.

From what I wrote above, I think now comparison and contrast between the story and the movie is clearer to you. As you can see, my comparison paragraph is shorter than contrast one. Although whole movie is based on similar main idea

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Approximate Word count = 933
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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