Count of Monte Cristo

[Marcia Adison]

I love the book, but the movie is nothing better then the book. In the book, it decribes more of everything that is going on. When i compared the movie and the book, it was if the book has more sense to then to a movie. There were so many characters and so many people, but it always leading to something very interesting. No way would i pick the movie over the book. when i first started reading this book. So i started to the beginning again and thats when i really couldn't put the book down. Maybe, it will help give people a chance to notice what the author was really trying to say. I read this book because of my english teacher (Mr. Anderson) Believe me, <br>i didn't want to read it, but i had no choice. Then, i noticed that it changed my point of view of others and gave me a chance to learn things from books. My favorite part of the book is when he learns all these new things from the old man in the cell next to him. He learned so much that, i wish i could do that. Never having to see the ocean is one thing, Dantes had been inso many places and he had a chance to become a young captain, but it was all so ruin by his so-call friends. When his father killed himself and Dantes not knowing until he was free, it was very sad and also very emotional. I was happy to know that the women he loved had his child, but i wished she knew the truth of where he was all those years. i love this book and i could read it over and over again. the weirdest thing of this book is that none of my friends understood this book and its really amazing. 17 yr old junior.<br>marcia adison<br>S.S.H.S RAMS

[boxistat]

Are you talking about the book or the movie? In the novel, Edmond never had a child. Especially not with the woman he loved, whom, I'm assuming you mean Mercedes? Unless you mean Haydee was his child, in which case he definately did not have by Mercedes...

[Eva Marina]

I think that the book and the movie are so different that it's really difficult to compare the two of them. In a psychological sense, I really enjoyed the book--it's one of my absolute favorites. It shows in depth the characteristics of human nature that the movie does not. However, if I'm looking for a good drama flick, I would definitely choose the movie, especially if I'm in need of a happy ending. But I can't compare the two of them in their different forms. The movie is good for a movie, and the book is excellent for a book.

[closedbyrequest]

I, too am confused. In the book, Albert is the son of Mercedes and Fernando. Dantes never has a child. Haydee is his slave, not his child. Dantes' father does not kill himself. He dies of starvation and a broken heart.