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Book Report On The Longest Ride

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The Longest Ride is about a girl who meets a bull rider named Luke. Sofia meets Luke at a rodeo when he is riding a bull. Sofia and Luke start talking and then they started dating. When they are riding in the car together Luke sees a car that had been wrecked. They pull over and helped Ira out of the car. Ira is an older man and his wife died a few years back. While he was in the car he thought Ruth, his wife, was talking to him and that what kept him alive. Luke’s mom doesn’t like him riding bulls because a year before he met Sofia he got really hurt while riding a bull. He was in a coma for a few days. He doesn’t tell Sofia about how hurt he was because he doesn’t want her to know. One thing that is different about the book and the movie is at the beginning of the …show more content…

In the movie they don’t talk about it at all. Also another difference is in the book when Ira was in the car the only thing that was keeping him alive was he dead wife Ruth talking to him. In the movie it didn’t have any of that. Also Luke was in the rodeo while Ira was in the car, but in the movie Sofia and Luke where on their way home from their first date. In the movie Luke gets Ira out of the car and then Sofia gets a box out that Ira kept talking about before the car blew up in flames. Then they took him to the hospital, when he woke up Sofia went in there and took him the basket with letters Ira wrote to Ruth throughout his lifetime. In the book it goes back and forth from Ira’s and Ruth’s story to Luke and Sofia’s. In the movie, Sofia goes to see Ira in the hospital every day and reads one of the letters to Ira. Ruth

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