books vs movies

Thank you Con for offering up your opinions and perspectives now I will continue with my argument that books are superior to movies Defending my arguments: Con tries to argue my point by writing "Interpreting things in different ways only results to arguments between people who have taken perceived the same words in a different way." Why is arguments between people over different perspectives a bad thing? These arguments on perspectives make books even better in my opinions because you can discuss books with other readers, offer up your perspectives and analyze the story in different ways, you might even share your love over the story with someone else, reading a book and discussing your opinion with someone else makes the book more enjoyable. All in all I'm not quite sure where con was trying to go with that argument. Con then uses my example of "the dark creature in the woods" he says that in a movie if we saw a dark creature run through the woods we wouldn't be able to tell either. This argument is a bit laughable because in the movie you are actually seeing the creature and although it may be running fast you physically see the color, the shape and the environment the creature is in. Im sure in the movie it isn't that hard to see a dog on the screen and know its a dog. I was using the example of the creature to prove that a vague description (the creature) allows us to make our own mental picture, for example in a movie a dog is on the screen but in a book creature could be multiple things and that leads to imagination. Con argues that every part of a book could be bad like special effects are bad. I was using the special effects example to prove that in books we use imagination to picture scenes and if these books were made into movies these scenes would have special effects, but in the book we couldn't be disappointed by the special effects because we imagined them. Like I stated earlier movies leave you with a permanent image, so if you see a bad special effect you are going to be slightly disappointed or less convinced of the story line. Con states "There is no need to drag on in movies just to explain things and it almost never happens." This is almost in support of my argument because if movies don't explain things or don't give enough information about the plot like books do then this would be a reason as to why maybe movies are less superior or confusing even. Con writes "Pro mentions that books encourage imagination and movies don't, but fails to bring a reason to this." This argument is invalid because I think most of my arguments in the past rounds have focused on books encouraging imagination by allowing the reader to picture the characters, and how movies present an audience with one perspective. This even ties to my argument involving "the dark creature". Books present you with descriptive adjectives but it is up to our imagination to draw up a mental image of those descriptions. "He could ask his friend who's been watching the movie with him or who's watched the movie before about what happened." Con wrote this and it just proves that movies don't allow audiences to use their minds and come to their own conclusions. Books allow readers to take a break and think through what they have read. Also I'd like to mention that if you are turning to the person next to you in a theatre to ask them about a movie, you are probably missing out on what is currently happening maybe even making you more confused, and probably annoying your friend. "Visual stimuli are far more detailed than a line of text. A picture tells a hundred words." I am going to prove this false by saying yes a picture does tell a hundred words, and what are books made of? Words. Visual stimuli are detailed, but going back to my other argument they don't lead to creativity and imagination, a line of text can describe a picture, words can describe pictures, and descriptions in words allow us to visualize in our heads these descriptions but once presented with a visual stimuli you can't imagine up a character or setting that has already been presented to you. I also think Con's argument that "it is simply because books cannot portray more raw action, that movies can." is false. Con doesn't support this belief with much reason, yet I believe I have provided several examples involving the use of punctuation and adjectives to prove Con wrong. "If they don't study at all, it probably means they are not very hard working. Thus. they probably dislike school." This argument is just a very vague opinion. Just because a youth doesn't study at a college or take up classes part time or full time does not mean they aren't busy or hard working. Also con writes "Id say movies are far more popular in youth today." whether this be true or not it is not sufficient enough of an argument to prove that movies are superior, that would be like me saying older people enjoy reading books more than watching movies therefore books are superior. My arguments: Books stimulate the mind more. They make you think more, you need to be able to read, comprehend, and you become more robust in vocabulary. Books are better for all ages, reading often at a young age will improve reading skills for students later down the line, and reading at an older age keeps the brain stimulated. Reading encourages the use of reading, grammatical, and vocabulary skills and it helps us maintain those skills. Sources:http://www.ultimatevocabulary.com...