evey

Maryam Alsaqran

Jeff klepper

English 113 B

November 26

Evey

V for vendetta is a comic book written by alan moore and art by daived Lloyd. This book it is about a man, fights against the government of the united kingdom, who named V; and a girl who lived a rough life when she was a kid and then that’s affect her life, who named Evey. V and Evey meet coincidently in the street at night when she stuck with a group of wearied men and then V came to help her to get rid of them. And there have been a lot of events and interesting details in this story which ends when V succeed to help Evey to get out from her past and her terrible childhood. This novel released as a film in 2006 by the director James McTeigue and the writers Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski. The story is same in the comic book and the film; however, there were some differences between the novel and the movie especially in Evey’s character and behaviors, which contributes in varying some events, which makes the novel more informative and more interesting than the film.  

            First of all, the beginning of the story is that Evey is walking in the street and suddenly she collided with a man, who was on of the fingerman. The fingerman is named “Right-wingers”, who were the government secret police that behave corrupt behaviors. Then V appears and helps Evey by fighting with the fingermen. But the differences are obviouse btween Evey’s character in the novel and the film. For example, in the novel she was just sixteen years old, an adolescents; however, in the film she looks like a young adults in the twenties. Moving on to her behavior in the beginning of the novel, she was walking in the street and then she asked a man to sleep with her because she needs some money. Unfortunately this guy was a fingerman and he and his group pushed her against the wall to kill her while she was pleasing them to let her go and not to kill her. Suddenly, V came and fight with them using tear gas then he carry Evey and run away. But, the beginig of the film differ the novel because Evey was waliking in the street and she collided with one of the fingermen and he started to ask her about the reason of being her out after the curfew and she saind because her uncle is sick; then they decided t kill her, one of them hold her from her arms and the other fingerman put the sword on her neck so she started screaming “help” “help” and finally she was helped by V.  The events in the novel were more detailed because they will reflect her childhood roughness and the reason that pushed her to ask a stranger to have a sex with her.

            The second and the most important different on my perspective is her family and childhood between the novel and the film. Starting with her outfit when she told V about her family and childhood, she was wearing a sleeveless yellow dress with a blue boot; she was lying on a green chair an curved on a table and crying in front of a big mirror that was surrounded by lamps. She showed V a picture of herself mediates her parents in the eighties during the war between Polands and Russuans, when her country wans under the threat of being bombed.  There were no food and the pollution was huge because of the sewers flooded, which had a negative effects on the people, it cause the death for too many people because the becteria and the viruse were separated in the air. Her father was deciding to leave the country but her mother refused therefore, they moved to a protection committee. Her mother was a victim of this pollution and she died, Evey didn’t see her mother because her father prevented her to see her mother’s corpse. On her twelfth birthday, her father was arrested because he joined a socialist group by the Ring-Wingers. Therefore, she lived in a dirty and cold hostel and worked in a factory after she lost her parents to make a living, but the money was not enough. Comparing to her childhood and family in the film, Evey was wearing a dark red short sleeve dress. She told V that she had a young brother that was killed by a virus, and after her brother’s death her parents became politicians against the government. Then the war started in her country and her mother suggest leaving the country but her father refused because he wanted to fight to help his country. The fingermen killed her mother in front of her, and her father was arrested in the same period so she left alone and she lived in a child reclamation camp.

It is clear how the Evey talked about her childhood in the novel in more detailed way than the movie. The real reason of being Evey outside after the curfew in the film was not obvious, her face reaction and body language in the film shows that she was lying on the man she saw in the street to escape from him. However, in the novel she showed the reason of asking a stranger to have a sex with her, because she had a rough life and she needs money to live.