A Comparison Of The House Of Sand And Fog

I much preferred the movie version to the novel. For me, author William Kennedy’s style of writing is needlessly vague and difficult to follow, yet he did a wonderful job adapting

Is the novel making the same point about the value or ideas as the film? If so, how? If it is making a different point about the value or idea, how is it different?

In The House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III, there are an infinite amount of possible outcomes when dreams collide, but overall not everybody can have his/her dreams fulfilled, unless there is a compromise to which all parties can agree upon, but only one can get what they came for, and the characters in the story do not come to this conclusion. This idea is expanded upon throughout the story of House and Sand and Fog when we get two people, Kathy Nicolo, and Colonel Behrani who have their dreams intertwine. They both do not ever come to a compromise that can satisfy the both of them, but instead it leads to nobody achieving their dream.

The plot and the setting of book and movie are very similar. There was a lot of thins borrowed from the book, but there was a lot changed as well. The movie followed the plot of book very closely and portrayed the setting of the book very well. A lot of the dialogue was borrowed and spoken directly as it was in the book.

"House of Sand and Fog," by Andre Dubus III, explores the catastrophic repercussions of a complex misunderstanding between three characters. The conflict initially involves a dispute between Kathy Nicolo and Massoud Behrani over the “rightful” ownership of a house. The county wrongfully evicts Kathy and Behrani then buys her house at an auction. When Deputy Sheriff Lester Burdon enters the situation, events quickly slip out of control. Superficially, Lester’s character is important to the novel because he acts as a catalyst, propelling the plot into unexpected action. But Lester impacts the novel in a more profound way, because were it not for his insecurity and selfishness, the rest of the characters could have been spared an avoidable tragedy.

The novel House of Sand and Fog, written by Andrew Dubus III, is a story about how society, events from the past and present situations can affect people’s persona, anima/animus, shadow and self which eventually influences their decisions about life. Dubus explores the conflict between two completely different people with opposite persona. Colonel Masoud Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family’s dignity. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young woman whose house is all she has left, and who refuses to let her hard-won stability slip away from her. These two characters are drawn by their competing desires to the same small house and domed by their tragic inability to

"House of Sand and Fog," by Andre Dubus III, explores the catastrophic repercussions of a complex misunderstanding between three characters. The conflict initially involves a dispute between Kathy Nicolo and Massoud Behrani over the “rightful” ownership of a house. The county wrongfully evicts Kathy and Behrani then buys her house at an auction. When Deputy Sheriff Lester Burdon enters the situation, events quickly slip out of control. Superficially, Lester’s character is important to the novel because he acts as a catalyst, propelling the plot into unexpected action. But Lester impacts the novel in a more profound way, because were it not for his insecurity and selfishness, the rest of

The actor choices from the film compare to what the book envisioned, but also contrast. The character of Daisy is not similar in the film to what the book

People place judgment on one another every day based on differences. Sometimes it is done subconsciously; sometimes it is done on purpose. In the book The House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III, two different cultures were represented; Kathy represented the culture of the western civilization, whereas Behrani represented the culture of Persians. People judge one another based on unimportant things, and get judged based on those same things as well. Two cultures were used to amplify how different their cultures were from one another. Throughout the book cultures vocalized what they did not like about the other cultures by placing judgment on people based on ethnicity, appearance, and status;

She went back and forth trying to tell them that it happened to them before, but then someone said that they had the video. Another scene was when they were talking to a jahadi and the emotions in this scene from him being suspended to him being crying from not wanting to give out information was done very well in both the book and the movie. Another scene that stuck out to me is on page 92 in chapter 6 when she receives the email that Danny had been captured. This scene was shown to its respected gratitude in my eyes because in both the book and the movie, the suspenseful feeling was just as present as the other and with a scene so pivotal, this was key to connecting to the audience. One last scene was when Mariane went on television to address the situation.

I read House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III. This story is one of classic tragedy which also contains a nearly unbearable amount of suspense. It tells a story of the conflict between people of different races who have an inability to understand each other. They each want possession of a small house in the California hills but for very different reasons.

Some felt that the children were bored quite easily with the sand tray process, and did not want to continue with the sessions. This is understandable as not all children may be suited to, or ready for, it. As stated in Prochaska and Norcross’s (2003) transtheoretical model, some counselling techniques may probe deeper emotional levels than the child is ready for, and this may lead to feelings of discomfort.

Because of the time limitation of films, they have to be compact enough. Therefore, it’s impossible to remain all scenes and events in the novel, that’s the reason why film omitted or redesigned part of the novel. Considering the movie was rearranged by a novel, it had to remain the main theme and events of the novel. It’s worth to mention that this factor also leads to another difference between the film and the book, the technique they used to depict characters. Both film and novel used a lot of monologs. Undoubtedly, it shows the character’s inner worlds vividly. But the ways they present inner worlds is slightly different. The film is inclined to close-ups, exaggerating atmosphere by background music. All these techniques cooperated with the monologs are helpful to the characterization. For the novel, it only depicted the characters’ inner world to make the character vivid. However, considering Amy Tan mastered the art of writing, in some specific scenes, she described the conflict inside the characters effectively and fluently. By the way, the film provides the footages. Comparatively, due to the texts of the novel, it remains the imaginary space for the

A few movies that adapted from a novel have been as intentionally unfaithful to its source material as Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 movie masterpiece of Steven King’s 1977 novel, “The Shining”. After seeing the film, King also told the BBC that Kubrick's movie presented the characters "like ants in an anthill” (Cinefix), they are not doing interesting things, these little insects. Not only are there big but also small details of the plot, many of which are deliberate reversals, but even many of the main characters of the movie have been changed to be more suitable for Kubrick’s vision. So what exactly separates the adaptation from the novel? And what did we learn from the comparison?

The first scene that will be analysed from the film is the scene of the Milanese Nightingale. A range of film techniques was used to make this scene filled with suspense. The scene begins with a medium shot of the singer singing her aria. There is a cut to Tintin looking up at the balcony followed by another cut to the balcony and a high angle shot. Zooms were used in both scenes. There is then a cut to an extreme close of a pair of glasses with the singer’s reflection visible. The camera zooms back and there is a cut to Tintin looking at the villain and a bird which has perched next to him through binoculars. There is another cut when Tintin turns around and looks at the bulletproof glass which holds the third model of the ship the Sakharine (Red Rackham’s descendent) is after. Before Tintin can do anything, there is a low angle shot when the singer sings her high note aria and shatters the lights. She eventually also shatters the bulletproof glass case protecting the ship by her own high-pitched voice. These sequences create great suspense which is resolved with action, therefore, making the scenes more effective on the viewers. For me, this scene is very effective because it carefully portrays the action with the appropriate camera movements, sound effects, soundtrack, camera angles, camera shots etc. This making the scene more appealing and therefore more effective for viewers and me.