Study Guide to A Separate Peace: Movie Version

Study Guide compares the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles to the movie version A Separate Peace (2004) starring J. Barton, Jacob Pitts, Toby Moore, Danny Swerdlow, and Hume Cronyn. Showtime. This movie version of A Separate Peace by John Knowles originally aired on SHOWTIME. The film deviates from the book a few times, but the changes do not alter the basic plot. Most of the dialog is from the book. The setting, action, and main characters in the book are fairly accurate. Finny stands out as an unusual literary personality and the only character who is not given a last name.

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The Common Core Standards call for comparing the novel text to a different version, especially a film version. Movie Version study guides provide reliable information about the comparison to know if student responses are accurate. Movie Version study guides compare the movie of a book to the book itself.  The study guides cover both the plot and characters in the movie and the book.

Each study guide contains:
The Movie:  A scene-by-scene comparison with chapters in the book, including errors and omissions in the movie.
The Book:  Complete chapter-by-chapter summaries of the book.
How Accurate is the Movie?  Each study guide rates the movie's accuracy according to Plot, Characters, Setting, Structure, Symbols, and Theme and reveals what's in the movie that's NOT in the book and what's in the book that's NOT in the movie.

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