Daphne Du Maurier's Short Story 'The Birds'

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If you saw someone getting attacked by a bird, what would you do? The short story The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier and the movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock have many differences and similarities between the them. A few differences between the short story and the movie are they both don’t have the same main characters and the endings are different. A similarity between the two is the people get prepared for the attack of the birds the same way. In the short story and the movie they both have different main characters. The short story contains a family of four who get trapped in their house in London, England because of the birds. Nat is the father of the family who cares for his wife and kids during the attack. While the movie contains strangers
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