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Can a Novel Over 500 Pages Get a Point Across?

It is a writer’s occupation to create a novel that touches the reader’s life. Through the conflicts, subplots, suspense, cliff hangers, and imagery a novel becomes a movie in the readers head. On the big screen movies have to go through all the main plots in a certain amount of time. It has been shown a movie over three hours normally bores the audience or no one will actually go to the theater to sit through the movie. Therefore why are authors writing novels that exceed the average of five hundred pages? If we cut down movies to get the point across, shouldn’t we cut down novels as well?

When novels exceed five hundred pages they lose touch with the message that’s trying to get across. To make a novel longer you have to add multiple subplots, these plots can confuse the reader because they do not have an extreme relevance to the main conflict in the novel. These excess details can also bore the reader because they are struggling through them to get to the main conflict. Also if a reader sees a novel is more than five hundred pages they will be less likely to pick up the novel and read it. So if an author’s job is to write for the sake of influencing people, why would they write a novel that most individuals would not even attempt to read?

11/22/63 by Stephen King, is a novel that is over eight hundred pages. This novel is about a man going back in time to stop the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This main plot of the story is what initially interested me to read the novel. However, the novel being so long ruined the main plot and the overall message of the novel. There were too many repetitive sub plots of love and saving different families from devastation. This took the attention away from the only reason why I wanted to read the book, to see the outcome of JFK being saved. Also with the sub plots dragging on there were excess and repetitive details that could have been left out of the story that had no real importance to the overall plot. Stephen king could have easily cut down his novel to five hundred pages. This would have enabled readers to be more likely to read it. As well as getting the point across in a clearer way.

Novels over five hundred pages make the message of a novel hard to get across. It causes the reader to get bored with the novel and not want to continue reading it if they know they still have to struggle through hundreds of more pages. We need authors to not exceed the average amount of pages because novels can influence lives. The more novels we have that individuals will read the better lives can become through their message. Therefore, when creating a novel over five hundred pages they fail to get the point across and in essence fail the individuals on the influence the authors could have inflicted on their lives.

Can Any Movie Adaptation Truly Please a Fan Of The Novel Its Based Off Of?

Movie adaptations are desired by people who truly fall in love with the novel that is being converted into a film. They are eager to see the characters, scenes, and settings that they have vividly pictured in their minds finally come to life. However does this desirable build up to finally seeing the Movie adaptation set it up for failure without even giving it a true chance? I believe that when someone is truly in love with a novel, the movie adaptation will never live up to their standards. For maybe even years they have an image in their mind of what the movie will be and no matter what the directors do it will not live up to what their imagination has created. 

For example, The Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling are widely known throughout the world. I finished the last novel in the series a year before it came out onto the big scene. I had an image in my head of how I wanted them to portray the novel. The whole movie pleased me very much, except the final scene. The main character did something completely different than what he did in the book. The change was so drastic to me that it ruined the whole last message the Movie was trying to get across. However, a common person who read the book without to much thought or a real deep tie to it wouldn't have noticed or have been to upset with the change in the final scene like i was. Since I was truly in love with the series I was able to pick up on this little thing and that caused me to think the adaptation was lacking in the end. 

My love for the final book of this series set the adaptation up for failure. Even though I loved the majority of the movie the one changed I picked up on ruined the ending for me. Instead of concentrating on the rest of the movie and how I enjoyed it I was unable to movie passed the ending. Through my experience with reading novels in depth and watching their film adaptations, it makes me believe no one will ever be truly pleased. Even if they say it was a wonderful movie, there will always be something missing for them that did not play completely into their vision of what the adaptation should have been like. There are so many components that go into an adaptation and people who love the novel are looking to pick it apart to see what they did wrong. I believe if you are not crazy about a novel you will enjoy the adaptation much more because your expectations are not as high as those who are so in love with the novel, they are not able to see passed a little detail that was changed by the screenwriters. 

Is Readers Choice An Effective Class?

Deciding what novel to read is a selective process for many individuals, some love romance, while others love violence. Choosing a novel is like choosing what foods you enjoy. You are well aware of what taste and styles of cooking please your palate; choosing a novel works the same way, you pick novels based on what interest you, the authors writing style, and your taste in genre. So no wonder why students all around have been frustrated with the novels they are being forced to read in their English classes. The novels assigned do not grab their attention. Therefore many students use website such as Sparknotes.com to just find out about the main plots without actually reading the novel. Most people wouldn't force individuals to eat a food they don’t like so why are we forcing students to read literature that is unpleasing to them?

Reader's Choice is a class that gives students the opportunity to students to choose the novels that interest them. However, with hundreds of students having all different novels to read, would the class room environment become disjointed? As it Shy’s away from the classical novels they would be taught otherwise .

As a student who has taken readers choice I have a good feel for how effective the class has been for me and my fellow students. It has allowed me to read novels I have been wanting to read. I have never had the time to read them because of the boring English novels that took up all my time as I struggled to get through them. Through being able to choose bestsellers and books from multiple genres that interest me, my reading palate has been able to flourish. I actually read each novel thoroughly and truly got everything I could out of each one. Enjoying a novel expand s your reading level greatly, whereas disliking a novel sets you back. It’s a waste of time reading a novel you dislike it never inspires or affect's you with greater thoughts like a novel you enjoy can do.

With students being able to read different novels from one another, most people would believe that the classroom environment would become disjointed. However that is the complete opposite affect that the readers choice class has on a class room. Every time a novel is due we have group discussions on the novels and what we thought about them. We also give book talks to convince the others around us that the novel will be a good choice for them to read. Through these discussions and leading conversations it has allowed me as well as my other classmates to grow in their speaking skills as well as being able to keep control of conversations when they might go off topic. So while other English classes just come together on how much they disliked a novel we come together on our love for reading and how the book we read actually influenced us through our great appreciation for it. 

To choose readers choice as a class is the right choice for schools curriculum, as well as the students. It allows students to explore novels that interest them and allow them to get a feel and love for reading.  Students should be able to choose their own novels and Readers Choice allows them to do just that.