The Movie "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" was a good adaptation of the book.

Let's get the debate underway! First of all, I would like to begin by saying that the movie was not absolutely perfect. The film was not a word for word direct transition from the book. That is granted. However, I will be arguing how much of the storyline and the themes presented by the movie were good portrayers of the themes presented in the book, and thus make the movie a good adaptation. O. K. , Let's begin with the basic storyline. Both the movie and the book center around Edmund, Lucy, and their cousin Eustace Scrubb. They are transported from Cambridge, England, into the land of Narnia, where they are rescued by Prince Caspian and the crew of the ship The Dawn Treader. There, they embark on a mission to rescue seven lost lords of narnia, who disappeared into the eastern sea many years prior to Casian's coronation. Caspian sets out to find the lost lords and to seek out new lands for the realm of Narnia. They end up finding out the fate of each of the lords (five survived and two had been killed), and discover many islands and have many adventures in the process. In that way the book and the movie correlate completely. The same storyline permeates both works and serves to tie them together. I will now move down to the important changes made for the movie and show how they really portray the themes presented in the book. First of all, we have Edmund's desire to be "a king" and to have power and influence. The book really is mostly silent on this issue, which could lead us to believe that the whole bitterness and temptation of Edmund throught the movie is awkward and unnecessary. However, the book reveals, while the characters were at the island of Deathwater, Edmund is tempted by tresure and the power that it brings, and begins to fight with Edmund, alomst leading them to their demise. The temptation of Edmund throught the movie just serves to show further the power of greed, jealousy, and selfishness if you allow yourself to let those feelings inside. Secondly, it might be noted that the movie combined both the island of Deathwater and Dragon Island into one volcanic island. It might be claimed that this was a bad decision and that it twists up the book. This is whole issue is, on the contrary, unimportant and inconsequential. With a limit for the movie on appriximately 2.2 hours, there just isn't that much time to include all that extra sailing and extraneouscash expense. Nothing from the book was lost with regards to original intent. Third, and probably most importantly, the supposed purpose of the quest was, in essence, changed a ways through the movie to a mission to collect the seven swords of the missing Narnian lords and to lay them at Aslan's table. This is coupled with the goal of destroying a mist that represents evil. Now, this may seem like a HUGE stray from the book. It appears that, halfway through the movie, they sort of smashed the plot. However, on investigation, the themes portrayed from this plot change actually exemplify the themes found in the book. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, that is, the book, centers around the growth of the three main characters. Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace all have problems in their lives, be it greed, envy, or hatred. The book revolves around adventure, yes, but also around the overcoming of the evil they possess. They learn to trust in the lion Aslan to overcome. The same is true for the movie. As coriakin the magician says in the film "To defeat the darkness out there, you must defeat the darkness inside yourself". The mist in the movie sybolizes evil and the temptation of that evil. Throughought the movie, the children learn to overcome that evil and to trust in Aslan. The mist provides a visual picture of what the book says. The movie, though not EXACTLY like the book, was a good adaptation. It stuck with the main themes and the story-line. When however it did differ, it was to show more clearly the intent of the book.