What's the Difference between The boy with the cuckoo clock heart the Book and Jack and the cuckoo clock heart the Movie?

Drama

The boy with the cuckoo clock heart

40%
Released: 2007
Author: Mathias Malzieu

Jack and the cuckoo clock heart

60%
Released: 2013
Director: Mathias Malzieu, and Stephane Berla
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In the Book In the Movie
Jack
Jack
Miss Acacia
Miss Acacia
madeleine
madeleine
luna
luna
anna
anna
arthur
arthur
joe
joe
Jack and the cuckoo clock heart Book vs Movie
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   The start of the book, it's told from jack point of view, like he's a narrator. The start of the movie, don't start with jack narrating.
   madeleine tells jack birth mother you just gave birth to a white bird, and call him a snowflake with arms. She don't say this in the movie.
   After the fight with Joe,(which Joe started) which happens 4 years later, Jack leaves town at night. To hide from the police. Jack runs home,and madeleine helps him leaves town during the day. To hide from the police.
   When Miss Acacia,leaves with Joe, Jack is so mad he jams a knife in his clock heart. He tears it apart with his hands.
   Jack is a full grown adult. Jack is 10 years old, and grows to the age of 14 til the end of the movie.
   Jack is in a coma for 3 years after jamming knife in his clock heart .Before waking up. After destroying his clock heart with his hands, over being angry for what Joe has caused he heads home on the train. He passes out when he gets home, and wakes up later on in his room with a cold.
   Jack gets a new heart while he is in a coma, by a nurse during the 3 years. Jack don't get a new heart, he has the same one through the whole movie.
   Miss Acacia rejects Jack, thinking he was dead the 3 years he was in a coma, when he sees her again. She confess her love for him when she takes a train following Jack home, to tell her true feelings, plus to give back his clock key.
   Arthur tells Jack some hidden information that was hidden from jack all them years. when he is out of the coma. When Jack wakes up in his room, Arthur don't say a word to Jack. This is because he is so sad about madeleine dying in prison, when she helped jack run away and hide.
   Jack finds out from Arthur he only needed his clock heart to function his first few moths of life as a baby. After that it functioned like a normal heart. madeleine kept this from jack to shelter him for years. Jack clock heart runs down,and he dies, after kissing Miss Acacia, at the end of the movie.
   The new heart Jack gets starts to make him grow like a giant. This is not in the movie, since the ending is different.
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