Books and movies present stories in different ways because the medias are incredibly different. In the story Heart of Darkness, the author takes the motif of the journey and presents it in the third person in a way that people could understand with the topic of the spread of culture in the "third world." Apocalypse Now shows the journey in a completely different way. It is made into a first person narrative and is changed from colonization to the modern day equivalent of the Vietnam War. Both ways of showing the story keeps the main idea of the journey both inside and outside, but the way of presenting it is very different.
The story Heart of Darkness is presented to us in the third person. From the beginning, the story is shown as someone telling a story about something that's already happened and it goes back and forth between the "present" and several times which make up the past. The story starts with the narrator telling his fellow boat-mates about a man named Marlow and his......

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Title: Heart Of Darkness Versus Apocalypse Now
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