Movie Vs. Book

Smoke Signals and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven are very similar in that they carry the same message. The book that we read as well as the movie are all about Indian culture. Although the book contains many different short stories while the movie is one really big story. also the book starts with a big hurricane and the movie starts with a big fire. most of the stories that are in thae book are about a father and son and all of their journeys. In the story, Victor learns how his father had died. His father abandoned him when he was a small child. Victor goes on a trip to Pheonix mourn over his fathers death.Victor brings along his friend Thomas to Pheonix, Arizona.

There were many similarities one big one is that the main characters had the same names in the movie and book. Also Thomas seemed to have always been picked on by Victor in both the movie and book. Thomas was always calm and just let it go but Victor was always upset with Thomas and the way he acted. Victor would always think he was right and that Thomas was always wrong which was not always true. In the movie, Victor and Thomas go to Pheonix on a bus while in the book they go on a plane. Also there is an extra character in the movie, who is Susie, who is not in the book. Also in the book Victor becomes an alcoholic, and the movie does not tell us that.

The movie did a great job of describing the book but the movie did not have as much detail as the book. The book described and also contained more about different stories while the movie basically took one of the stories from the book and expanded on that one. The book portrays being a Native American in the United States as difficult and tough living. The book always described how poor their family was while the movie did not.. The book gives examples and talks about how people especially police men disrespect the Native Americans. This showed in the movie when Victor and Thomas were on the bus and everyone kept looking at them like they were outcasts. The book and the movie were very similar but also very different.