Our America Book And Movie Similarities

All in all there were many things different about the book compared to the movie.

The American family is modeled as being happy, calming, and cheerful but for many it is the opposite of that In the novel, Until They Bring the Streetcars Back, by Stanley Gordon, he doesn't romanticize and make the characters life beautiful and perfect. He chooses to give the characters major difficulties in their lives that set them back. Based in St.Paul, Minnesota in the late 40's and early 50's, the difficulties the main teenage characters go through our different then what teenagers go through today. Cal deals with his Fathers disconnection with him. Steve is dealing with always feeling pitied and guilty. But they don't compare to the hardship Gretchen is going through in her household. These characters go through many problems in the book but somehow find a way to relieve their pain.

In the article” Betrayed by America” by Kristen Lewis, the bombing of Pearl Harbor affected the attitudes toward Japanese Americans. The Japanese Americans probably felt mistrusted because the Americans were making up rumors about the Japanese Americans. In the article it says, ” Rumors flew that Japanese Americans were loyal to Japan and that they were spies planning another attack on the U.S. There was no evidence that these rumors were true.” It would make sense to think that the Japanese Americans were spies because Japan was bombing the U.S. It is natural for people to think Japanese Americans look Japanese. Most of the facial features look the same. The article says,” In fact, a military report in January 1942 stated that 3 percent of

The American is a new man who is neither a European, nor his direct descendant. He is a strange mix of blood which cannot be found in any other country. The American is described as a person whose grandfather was an Englishman, his mother was Dutch and who has married a Frenchwoman. The American is a person who has left behind all his ancient manners and prejudices, and has received new ones from the mode of life he has embraced, the rank he holds and the government he obeys. A person becomes an American after being received in the broad lap of the great Alma Mater, and he becomes melted down into the new race of men whose posterity and efforts could transform the world in the days to come.

Darry didn’t appear much on the film, but I could know that he was a tough, strict person. Also, I could see that he loved Pony and Soda a lot even though Darry was not a person who shows his thoughts to others. Darry was well-described in the movie, but on the other hand, the other characters looked or acted quite differently from the original characters in novel. For instance, the book told us that Pony looked as if he was fourteen, but the actor looked as if he was over twenty years old; the book also stated that he had long hairs that were squared off at the back, but the hair was short in the movie. Another example is Johnny; in the book, it said that his eyebrows were fully covered by his bang, but it wasn’t in the movie. The novel also said that he looked so pale and scared when someone surprised him, like how Two-Bit suddenly talked to Johnny from the back in the movie house. However, Johnny didn’t look that scared or fearful in the film. Overall, the characters in movie somehow altered from the original

These stories are very much similar in many ways. They both capture how unique and diverse America is. The main idea of both is that our country is a mixture of tons of different things that is combine to form something even greater. In The Immigrant Contribution, it stated that “The ideal of the ‘melting pot’ symbolized the process of blending many strains into a single nationality…” (Kennedy,27). It is also the idea that America has never been all-American, it was founded on different things that were mended to

Our America the book and the movie, are they the same or different. In Our America as a book it goes from showing how LeAlan and Lloyd’s life is in the ghetto. From there it tells how LeAlan and Lloyd starts to talk about a little boy named Eric Morse, that got dropped out of a 14 story high rise and what the people that lived in that apartment have to say about it. The book and movie versions of Our America has many differences such as the way they showed how Eric Morse feel from the 14th floor, and how they added things to the end of the movie but they did not happen in the book.

American poets, novelists, and other writers often write about the topic of American identity. In this lesson, you have read excerpts from two texts, “Response to Executive Order 9066” by Dwight Okita, and “Mericans” by Sandra Cisneros. Determine a common theme that both authors establish about the topic. In response to the first sign of American identity I noticed by the sort of stories in the classifications of relatives in style tradition Americans names such as empty and uncle. The next thing I noticed relates to young American identity, regarding childhood. As a result of American culture a couple things that could be experienced and childhood during this period, the narrator tries to avoid falling victim of. For example, the grandmother

When watching the film, the first difference the viewer can see between the book and the movie is how the characters are portrayed. A notable example would be Carlson. In the film,

Throughout both stories you see that being American doesn't mean your culture has to be from America. Any person, ethnicity, and race can be American because appearances and heritage don't define what it means to be

“That night, I lay in my bed trying to feel the right thing for our dead President. But the tears that came up from a deep source inside me were strictly for me.” (Page 250) Some people do not understand the pain and sadness they could have caused another person. I think Judith Ortiz Cofer conveyed this message throughout the entire story with the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the intense words Eugene’s mother used towards the narrator. Judith Ortiz Cofer’s personal experience and style added detail to the story that made American History much more enjoyable to read. The title American History is a misnomer because the story itself is about a Puerto Rican teenage girl who wants to be friends with the boy who lives behind her. The elements of setting, characterization, theme, conflict, plot, and symbol along with real life events made American History come to life.

Mikayla has been bullied since she was young. She got punched by a second grader at her first day of kindergarten. Her school life became worse and worse, and she was called “Big Fat Loser” because she was fatter than other students. It was difficult for her to accept the abuses, and she attempted to hurt herself. Bullying is someone uses threats, coercion or force to maltreat or humiliate others. The harmful effect of bullying is it can destroy a person’s life, or even make a person die. In the book, “The Book of Unknown Americans” we see that how Garrett abused Mayor and Maribel and the different views and ways of dealing with the problem of bullying by their parents, and I think the way their parents used to solve the problem is not effective.

The Real All Americans combines the tales of two merging chapters in American history, a time when football is leaping out of the dirt, and the Western Frontier is disappearing.

The way in which this story is told I find is very unique. The Book Of Unknown Americans is written in a first person perpective where each chaacter gets to personnaly introduce themselves and explain their life story. When reading this book it almost feels as if you are talking one on one with a close friend. Henriquez has a way of pulling your right through text and submerging you into the same word as the characters throughout the book. Henriquez makes a point of keeping the characters thoughts and emotions very clear, its as if we are the character. Its very easy to realte to eachinduvidual in the story, which is purposefully done by the auther in order to make Henriquez message clear on what she wants us, the reader, to take away from her fictional book. No matter where we come from, we all want the same things in life, to find love, safety, and a sense of purpose inthis world. Just becasue osmeone is a foreigner does not mean that their ambitions what they strive for in life are foreign concepts as well. We are all human and must treat one another as nothing less.

Normally, when a movie is made about a story in a book the two stories are not exactly the same. The movie is adjusted by adding small details or leaving out some parts in order to make the story more