Stream Of Consciousness Movie Vs Book

The book Ordinary People was told in the perspective of a depressed teenage boy and his father. The theme of the story is that things happen but it’s not always your fault. Conrad has survival guilt. He feels like it’s his fault that Jordan died, so he takes it out on himself. Calvin feels responsible for Conrad's accident. The book and the movie have a lot of similarities and differences.

The similarities between the journey’s of two men are undeniable, Krakauer includes his own journey to supply the reader’s with his reason and drive to do it supplying the reader’s with further background. Giving reader further background on what might have driven Chris to embark on his quest will not force reader’s into Krakauer’s opinion but serves to give them more insight on the event so that they more justifiably form their own.

One method Krakauer uses is characterization. He uses this technique to draw parallels to himself and the main character. The author convinces the reader just how similar he and Chris are for example, “As a youth, I am told, I was willful, self-absorbed, intermittently reckless, moody. I disappointed my father in the usual ways. Like McCandless, figures of male authority aroused in me a confusing medley of corked fury and hunger to please” (Krakauer, 134). This quote directly describes how similar Chris and Krakauer are. The author’s goal in writing this story was to tell Chris’s saga and give life to a truly eccentric man. He succeeds by describing how both his and McCandless’s journey had a huge impact on their personality and feelings towards society. During much of his trip, Chris avoided close relationships with people and had very little interaction with other human beings. As the reader learns more about the character and his life, we learn that he matured a great deal on his sojourn. Towards the end of his journey, he realizes, “happiness is only real when shared”. (McCandless, 189) By adding this quote, the reader feels sympathy for Chris because he is in such poor condition. At this point in the novel, the reader feels connected to the main character and his exuberant personality. Krakauer

Translating a book into a movie can be a very elusive task for many reasons. This is due to the fact that a book has many key points in it and compressing them all into a certain time frame can be very arduous. Mark Forster’s adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel the Kite Runner is a rather weak portrayal of what the author had originally wrote because of its bad casting choices, very significant and harmful cuts to the novel and scenes added throughout the film. Although the director’s intention to recreate a very touching story into a movie was a great idea, the author could have given more attention to some crucial and important aspects of the novel.

When Lennie ends up crushing Curley’s hand. The whole scene is when Curley walks into the bunkhouse looking for his wife. He asks Lennie and Lennie doesn't answer so Curley gets mad and already wants to fight Lennie anyway so he starts punching him in the face and Lennie doesn't fight back till George tells him to. So when george finally does tell him to fight back the next punch that Curley threw Lennie ended up catching and he squeezed so tight on his hand it crushed it.

Krakauer narrated the story in a way that displays Chris’ personality from the perspectives of the different people he encountered in his life. For example, when Krakauer interviewed a man by the name of Westerberg, the reader learns about McCandless’ intelligence and attitude towards life. Westerberg described McCandless’

point of view on christopher is he is a brave good hero but in reality he is a paradox.

While talking about Chris and himself Krakauer stated “And i suspect we had a similar intensity, a similar heedlessness, a similar agitation of the soul” pg 155 .Throughout the book many people criticized Chris for actions. Most viewed Chris as just ignorant person who taught they could make it in the woods. Krakauer could understand Chris better than most , because of how similar their life story is. Krakauer recognized that him Chris were different because he didn’t “ posses Chris’s intellect nor his lofty ideals”.

Christopher is very different to normal people as he has Asperger’s Syndrome, a mental illness which deprives him of his social abilities and emotional interpretation. Christopher changes from an innocent unknowing boy to one of newfound truths and knowledge. At the start of the book he is very shy and protective of himself, only talking to those that he trusts. The author writes “It takes me a long time to get used to people I do not know. For example, when there is a new member of staff at school I do not talk to them for weeks and weeks. I just watch until I know that they are safe”.

The Notebook, written by Nicolas Sparks, can be named one of the best American romantic novels. The book portrays every trait in a guy or girl would desire to have in a significant other. According to Nicolas Sparks, “it is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, tales that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again”.

Christopher’s abnormal personality can be seen as a weird but it is because of the experiences he had to face as a young adult with his father that made his perception on life and its values of life change. Christopher’s adventure way up north was described by saying, “...he was relieved as well—relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it.”(55) Christopher most likely felt like this because he felt betrayed by his father and saw no point in endeavouring trust into people close to him

The film and the book present McCandless in different, but similar ways; some may say it’s the difference between fact and fiction. Both are obviously interpretations of Chris McCandless’s life and death, but I find the book to be more factual. Krakauer dug in deep, and got extensive interviews from the few people Chris considered to be his friends. In fact, the majority of the first chapter in the book is based on the memory of Jim Gallien, the man who dropped Chris off at the head of the Stampede Trail in Alaska. The movie, on the other hand, starts with actor, Emile Hersh, who plays McCandless, reading Chris’s own words from personal journals. The book looks at Chris as more of a tragic psychological

In recent years, it has become popular for many of America's great literary masterpieces to be adapted into film versions. As easy a task as it may sound, there are many problems that can arise from trying to adapt a book into a movie, being that the written word is what makes the novel a literary work of art. Many times, it is hard to express the written word on camera because the words that express so much action and feeling can not always be expressed the same way through pictures and acting. One example of this can be found in the comparison of Ken Kesey's novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the film version directed in 1975 by Milos Forman.

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The book, "Being There," is about a man named Chance, who is forced to move out of the house he lived in his whole life and his experience in the outside world. Based on the success of the book, the movie, "Being There," was made. The author of the book, Jerzy Kosinski, also wrote the screenplay for the movie. I think the major difference between the book and the movie is that in the book, we get to read what Chance is feeling and thinking, but in the movie, we only get to see his actions.