Compare And Contrast Book And Movie

Imagine being able to see everything happen around your lifeless body and having to choose if you stay or leave. This happened to Mia Hall in if i stay by Gayle Forman. Mia is a 17 year old girl with a loving family and boyfriend. On a day that started normally, she just about lost everything in a horrific car accident. Her parents die instantly; she and her younger brother, Teddy, are left in critical condition. There are many differences between the book and movie that made both very appealing. The book and the movie portray the crash scene very differently, but both were emotional. After the car accident, Mia is wandering trying to get the attention of the firefighters, paramedics, police, and trying to find her family. “‘Dad,’ I call, but as I walk
In this scene, Mia is explaining how since she went for her Juilliard audition, Adam has been selfish, wanting her to stay here and not go three thousand miles east. “This past fall, though, Adam and I started to have a different kind of fight. It wasn’t a fight, really. We didn’t shout, we barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives” (199). The book portrays that they never really fight like real couples do; that they just have tension with each other. But, the movie portrays a much more realistic version of them. Adam had snuck in Mia’s room after a dinner party with her family, they talk for awhile and then this happens, “Adam lay down on my bed, stretching his arms above his head. His whole face was grinning--- eyes, nose, mouth. ‘Play me,’ he said. ‘What?’ ‘I want you to play me like a cello’” (59). In the movie, Adam and Mia’s first time is in Adam’s band’s shed and is more realistic than what’s shown in the book. Scenes like these in both the book and the movie lead to a very powerful climax to the story when Mia makes her own life or death