Study Guide compares the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne to the movie The Scarlet Letter (1995) starring Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall. Screenplay by Douglas Day Stewart. Directed by Roland Joffe. The Demi Moore/Gary Oldman movie is the most accessible version of the book via DVD or streaming. The basic story doesn't start for 50 minutes into the film. Hang on! There are some wild plot inventions that aren't in the book, but the main characters and plot are fairly accurate.

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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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