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Hound Of The Baskervilles Book And Movie Similarities
In reading The Hound of the Baskervilles and watching the movie, I noticed many similarities and differences between the two. Writing this compare and contrast essay made me understand the story far more than I did with just reading the book. Here are some differences and some similarities I found while reading and watching The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Many people probably noticed differences in the character's behavior between the movie and book but I found many more similarities. In both, Sherlock Holmes is observant, focused, and arrogant. He notices many details about other characters that neither Mortimer nor Watson notice. Holmes shows he is focused because he is so set on solving the cases he is given and he rarely gets side-tracked.
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