Hiding Place and my Novel

The movie takes place in WWII, whereas the book takes place in a fictional war. The movie portrays war as an enemy, and is about teenagers stopping the war, The book, however, shows war as something to endure in the fight of survival. The movie has a much harder moral issue, like in the scene where they are arguing about being responsible for deaths by Nazi hands. In the book, the hardest moral decision is whether or not to leave the woman’s body in the crash at the beginning of the book. The movie is also a more graphic story, with the scene where Pete gets beat up, and how the Jewish child gets skinned and made into a lamp. The book, on the other hand is less violent, with the exception of the scene where Randy and his group go to fight the prisoners who have been controlling the main road. The movie is a fight against oppression, the book is a fight for survival.