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Title: Disney's the Hunchback of Notre Dame: Meet the Characters (Meet the Characters Series) by Mouse Works ISBN: 1-57082-279-4 Publisher: Mouse Works Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.98

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Average Customer Rating: 4.52 (71 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The Genius of Victor Hugo
Comment: Quasimodo, Esmerelda, Claude Frollo, the "Sack Woman", Gringoire, Captain Phoebus, Djali. What signifies these characters to linger in the reader's concscience long after they have read Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris (or Hunchback of Notre Dame)are their humanitarian qualities that reflects so much raw passion, life, and such exquisite Gothic images within their characteristic interior. Quasimodo, Esmerelda, and Claude Frollo are the most familiar names in this book, as well as in literary culture. And Djali is in fact one of the most famous animal characters in literature. The Notre Dame catherdral, the streets, the people, and the sounds of Medieval Paris also signifies Victor Hugo's genius and utmost respect for describing the Paris of the past to compliment the Paris of today (or at least at his time). How Victor Hugo has carefully and so perfectly arranged so many plots filled with humor, depth, emotion, darkness, redemption, obsession, lost, hate, regret, and love in each character, as well as so magnificently described Paris so fluently with as much detail as possible, is just undeniably spectacular. Like Les Miserables (which to me personally is one of the most definitive epics of human life that i have ever read), Victor Hugo brings out these common, lost, neglected, misunderstood, and strange characters from the dark and expresses their human qualities of love, hate, fate, revenge, and devotion in the light. When i think of the Disney movie version of this classic novel, the more i feel that Disney obviously didn't read or follow the concept of this novel. For kids, sure it makes sense that a theme out of this is that evil falls, and that people will love you no matter how deformed your face looks. But i believe if they really read this book, they would realize that a story like this isn't for children. The story is not nice at the end (it's the most haunting and tragic part of the whole novel). The story isn't about the love of Quasimodo and Esmerelda. The story isn't even about Quasimodo. It's about a mixture of important and random characters that creates a chain of plots and emotions that intertwines with one another to create a whole story where everybody in the novel has had some influence or some importance to the whole story. And that's the problem with a majority of movies based on classic novels like Hunchback, Jane Eyre, etc. Movies take away the poetry and aesthetic quality of the story, while taking away so many minor characters, and plots. And through my observation, it seems to always soften up the original tale instead of bearing the true dark images that the original novels portray (such as A Farewell To Arms,where there was actually more dialogue in the movie than the book itself, and so much more emotion at the end which didn't even happen in the book. If you want to check that out, read the book first, i recommend that as well). To me it's a waste of such a wonderful classic that deserves to be read rather than seen through celluloid. If you saw the laughable and extremely make believe and rewritten version of Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, or saw any other movie version, then you definitely must read the book. I believe it will be more worthwhile and more understanding, it will definitely make you laugh, cry, smile, and think, very much.

Rating: 5
Summary: Much better than I thought it would be
Comment: The Hunchback of Notre Dame was a story that I thought would be a little bit adolescent and childish because they made a Disney movie out of it. But it wasn't. If your read the story, you realize that Disney obviously made the movie have more of a happy ending, because a sad ending is not characteristic of a child's film. Also, the Disney movie focused more on the moral of "Don't judge a person by the way they look", where the book obviously did not. The book just doesn't transfer well to screen.

As far as the actual book goes, it was a very powerful story. Even though it's not really a mystery, you just want to read more to find out what happens. You begin to feel inside the story, in almost another reality. Anytime somebody talked to me or disturbed me during my reading, I would come out of the fictional dimension feeling almost hypnotic because of being into the story so much. This story is very deep, and certainly more than the Disney film portrays. I guess the main thought that I'm trying to send here is that the book is so much different and focuses on so many different subjects that in order to UNDERSTAND The Hunchback of Notre Dame you must read the book.

Rating: 5
Summary: Not like the Disney movie
Comment: Written by Victor Hugo in the 1800's, this masterpiece is set in medieval Paris. The story jumps around, yet when you finish the book, it all makes sense. One minute it is in the middle of celebrations, and then it jumps to fifteen years before. It tells multiple stories at once: the story of the hunchback, Quasimodo, his keeper, Dom Frollo, The gypsy, La Esmeralda and other random people whose stories all tie into the whole story. Even though I don't speak French very well, and I've never been to Paris, I can imagine it vividly. The dialogue between the characters is very engaging. There are multiple twists and the plot is so thick you could cut it with a knife. Hugo wrote it beautifully, and the language is understandable. It is just so wonderful that when you get to the exciting parts, you can't put it down! He wrote it and it tugs at all of the human emotions. This book makes you laugh with triumph, cry, filled with anger towards evil, and sympathetic to the characters who don't know any better or have no options. One minute you love a character and the next you despise them with a passion. If you remember the Disney interpretation, and try to incorporate it into your reading, it won't work. The book is much more tragic than the light-hearted movie. It is beautifully written and would recommend it to everyone that thinks it is on his or her level.