Comparison Of Shoeless Joe And Field Of Dreams
In 1919, the Chicago White Sox lost the series to the Cincinnati Reds, and eight White Sox players were later accused of intentionally losing games in exchange for money from gamblers; it was the biggest scandal in major league history. Many of Shoeless Joe's greatest fans, including Ray Kinsella, were profoundly saddened to hear the news that their idol would no longer be playing baseball. The novel “Shoeless Joe” by W.P Kinsella and its adaptation movie “Field of Dreams” by Phil Alden Robinson are both like and unalike in terms of relationships, characters, plot, settings and theme.
The plots of both “Shoeless Joe” and “Field of Dreams” are similar and different in a variety of ways. Both works involve a farmer from Iowa, named Ray Kinsella
who hears a voice that tells him, "If you build it, he will come" . However, in the novel, Ray knows exactly what he has to do and goes with it, but in the movie Ray constantly doubts what he is doing. And that, perhaps, is where the contrast between both works is most striking. In both the movie and story Ray believes the voice is calling on him to build a baseball field for the famous Shoeless Joe Jackson. The book primarily takes place on the farm owned by the main character Ray, which is located in the country area of Iowa while the parts of the movie take place in Boston, Minnesota, and Iowa. The themes in both the movie and the story are baseball and peace of mind, this is constantly shown by having the story and movie centered around baseball. They both show the need to have peace of mind in many ways but one of the most obvious is when Ray hears the voice speak to him saying "Ease his pain". In the book, Ray and his father had a good relationship but in the movie they had argued all the time before Ray's father died. Also in the story, Ray said he went to college in Iowa but in the movie Ray went to Berkeley. One of the biggest differences between the two works is that the story ends after Ray meets Shoeless Joe and Joe asks if he can bring friends to play ball with him but the movie ends after Ray drives across the country to search down other famous people or people with ties to baseball which helped to mend his relationship with his father.
Despite the many similarities and differences between the movie and the book, Field of Dreams was slightly altered to incorporate and express the same ideas expressed in the book. However, “Shoeless Joe” contains the original material, that was interpreted into the movie with different intentions.
The plots of both “Shoeless Joe” and “Field of Dreams” are similar and different in a variety of ways. Both works involve a farmer from Iowa, named Ray Kinsella
who hears a voice that tells him, "If you build it, he will come" . However, in the novel, Ray knows exactly what he has to do and goes with it, but in the movie Ray constantly doubts what he is doing. And that, perhaps, is where the contrast between both works is most striking. In both the movie and story Ray believes the voice is calling on him to build a baseball field for the famous Shoeless Joe Jackson. The book primarily takes place on the farm owned by the main character Ray, which is located in the country area of Iowa while the parts of the movie take place in Boston, Minnesota, and Iowa. The themes in both the movie and the story are baseball and peace of mind, this is constantly shown by having the story and movie centered around baseball. They both show the need to have peace of mind in many ways but one of the most obvious is when Ray hears the voice speak to him saying "Ease his pain". In the book, Ray and his father had a good relationship but in the movie they had argued all the time before Ray's father died. Also in the story, Ray said he went to college in Iowa but in the movie Ray went to Berkeley. One of the biggest differences between the two works is that the story ends after Ray meets Shoeless Joe and Joe asks if he can bring friends to play ball with him but the movie ends after Ray drives across the country to search down other famous people or people with ties to baseball which helped to mend his relationship with his father.
Despite the many similarities and differences between the movie and the book, Field of Dreams was slightly altered to incorporate and express the same ideas expressed in the book. However, “Shoeless Joe” contains the original material, that was interpreted into the movie with different intentions.