Movies are better than books

Books are better than movie for countless reason. Here are a few of my main points to start of with. More detail in books: My first argument on why books are better is that books have a lot more explanation on the story. When you get background information on the characters and understand why they act the way they do it helps you understand them. While reading you also know what the characters are thinking and how they are mentally dealing with the obstacles they are faced within the story. Getting more background information can help you understand the story better and make more sense of it. Whereas in a movie it's limited to a short time period where a lot of important information can't be elaborated on or gets left out altogether. By the end of the movie you have more questions than answers. Making movies based off books can be a bad choice for filmmakers: When a movie is based off of a book the movie can upset a lot of people because the movies always have to leave something's out. When people are big fans of a certain book and that book get picked up for a movie deal that can make certain people unhappy. The problem with reading the book before you watch the movie adaption of it is when have you grasped all this detailed information from the novel and once you watch the movie you have all these questions unanswered like for example, why wasn't this part in the movie? Why did they change this scene? Or why didn't they add my favorite part? Of course a movie can't add everything a book has because of the short time a movie plays for but when you see it on the big screen and it's different than how you imagined it, it can be annoying. And sometimes when a book is made into a movie you have to read the book first in order to understand the movie version and obtained the concept of the story line. The concept of retaining more material while reading: Another reason why books are better is because I feel that you learned a lot more from books than movies. While you read a book you are constantly learning new vocabulary terms. When you read a sentence and there's a word in it that you don't know and what it means you can usually pick up the meaning based on how the sentence is. You also pick up new ways on how to write better while you read a book. For example you will learn new ways on how to structure a sentence better, proper punctuation, and learn new writing styles. The styles of writing you can learn while reading books can be expository, persuasive, and narrative styles. Reading expands your imagination: One of the best parts of reading a book is using your imagination to create and customize the story to your liking. Every human has imagination, it's inevitable because we are constantly seeing thing, day dreaming, creating images, picturing how things work throughout the day. When we were younger our teacher would tell us to put a picture in your head to elaborate what we were reading. So it could help you see what was happening in the story and better understand what we were reading. When you read a book the writer details the scene so can picture it in your head easily. When the writer is describing a character for example their hair color, face structure, height and you have the ability to create an image of what the character looks like to you. There's no right or wrong on how you interpret or how you perceive the look of a character or setting of a scene in a book. While you are reading you are exercising and working your brain in a healthy way. Where in movies, there is no need for imagination because everything is leaded out and shown to you. Watching a movie doesn't work your brain at all and requires basically no imagination.