Death of a Salesman mostly takes place in the Loman home and in Willy’s mind. There is little change to the script; minor things were left out such as when, in the play, Willy is talking to Linda about paying Frank for the carburetor, he says, “I’m not going to pay that man! That goddam Chevrolet, they ought to prohibit the manufacture of that car!” In the movie, he calls the Chevy “That lousy, rotten Chevrolet” (Kirszner 1307). For the most part, one could read the play along with watching the movie and find that it is almost verbatim which helps the reader/viewer see the authenticity of the movie. Even the music defined in the stage directions was taken into account in making the film.
In the scene after Melinda got raped for example. In the movie it seemed like they just put it in there because they had to, not because it was a key element to the telling of the story, it wasn’t dramatized in the way the book depicted it. I also felt as if the flashbacks came too abruptly during the film. In the novel, you were left wondering throughout the majority of the book. What
If the movie had more detail it would be more interesting. The book gave me a better picture. When I saw the movie it confused me because it didn’t have all the parts. If I just saw the movie I wouldn’t understand why Greasers and Socs were separated and why they hated each other. I think Cherry did a really good job; she fit the description really well I think.
The use of bait cars in our community have been a problem. Criminals want to say that it is entrapment. I feel that if you brake the law, you’ve done wrong. The time, day, or even the situation should not be looked at, but the crime that was committed. It should not matter if I left my keys in the car, or if the police left their keys in a bait car, if stolen it is wrong.
There are many other differences between Charles Frazier’s novel Cold Mountain and Anthony Minghella’s movie based upon the novel, I have only chosen a few. The key difference that I find interesting is the way the novel ends compared to that of the movie, there is no mentioning of love or thought for Inman in the novel while the movie portrays Ada as having a hard time be able to forget his presence. These differences are important because they can change how the audience perceives the novel in comparison to the
There are always two sides: the good ones and the bad ones. Obviously it is not possible to define each one because there are different ways of setting a preference for who is the good or the bad. The Socs are the privileged kids from the Westside that as the word Soc means society, they have nice cars, they are rich and they live for bluffing. The Greasers are the unprivileged ones who live in the poor side and have to put up with the Soc’s attacks, in both moral and physical ways. A special detail to look at are the changes the protagonist undergoes during the novel which I think is one of the main purposes the author wants us to pay special attention to, since the entire plot is based on Pony’s feelings and expectation for his life.
From the time the immigrant steps off the train, vultures are lurking to take advantage of him. Everyone wants to overcharge him and misdirect him in hopes of self gain. Unfortunately, for the foreigners there were few people trying to help them honestly without self interest. Immigrants had to pay to get jobs. They couldn’t bank at normal banks because banks didn’t carry clerks speaking Italian, so they were stuck banking with crooks they thought to be honest.
Secondly, while on the highway, Jerry knew that what they were doing was precarious, and told Fran to lean down low so she wouldn’t be injured. Instead of endangering them both, he protected his wife. When the boys dashed out after the Benedict’s, Jerry did not engage them in a fist fight. He knew they had been drinking – it would be unfair to pummel them. Jerry only pushes them to the ground to give him time to hop in his car.
Yunior represents the trauma and pain a child can feel within a family through his experience with his father’s infidelity, inability to help his siblings, and hiding the secret of the infidelity. Yunior feels disgust toward his father because he has an affair with a Puerto Rican woman, while he is married with Yunior’s mother. The disgust and sickness is expressed through his car sickness. Yunior cannot ride in Papi’s recent purchase of a lime green Volkswagen van which was “bought to impress” (Junot, 174), without vomiting. Yunior felt like the van was the reason of his vomiting, “I’d never had trouble with cars before and that van was like my curse” (Junot, 172).
In The Outsiders, it's socs, the rich kids, against the greasers, the poor kids. Yes, the greasers may have greasy hair, ratty clothes and not a lot of money, but that doesn't make them different from anyone else on the inside. Well, that's not what the socs think. They believe they're better, because they all have girlfriends, nice mustangs and they're rich. Both the socs and the greasers can agree that the town of Tulsa is divided between the two groups: one group on the east side and the other group on the west side.