Friday, May 28, 2010

BOOK VS. MOVIE



The movie, Marley and me is basic on the book of John Grogan which is the true story.
So the movie and the book have many differences and similarities.

  • A differences is :

    The movie tells and shows me where John works but the book does not tell me directly only imply. Many of part in the book, the author make me to imagine. This is why I should use my imaginations while I was reading this book. .

    Also the book contains enough narrative but the movie emphasis every event. For instance Marley makes Jenny so upset that she wants him gone in the movie, but they don't have that kind of event in the book.

  • A similarity would be :

  • In the both book and movie, they have same members of family (3children).
    Another similarity is that in the book Marley pasts away from a stomach twist and it happens to Marley in the movie, too.

    Both explain in the same way Marley’s personal character is
    explained in the same way by both book and movie. He eats anything, cries nonstop during thunderstorms and endless shredded sofas.

    In my opinion, the most important massage from the author through the story of both book and movie is Marley reversed his impression to the world’s purest dog and famous.

MOVIE IS BETTER

BOOK



OR MOVIE ?



I liked and enjoyed the movie more than a book because watching is easier than reading. When I choose the book, Marley and Me I expected a fun and exciting adventure with a dog but I recognized the book has too many pages for 5th grade kid.

I usually love reading a book and this book, Marley and me tells me more detail story about Marley and John’s family which is very fun and interested but still long story to me. As compare the book, the story of movie goes very quickly which I like it. I also feel like I am the real person in the movie.

In the beginning of the movie, they showed me what job John had and how the interview went. I paid attention at this scene because I have had published my own newspaper 2 years ago for long time and I will work as a volunteer at a local newspaper this summer. Along with, movie shows more events because in the book they leave some parts out.
That is why I like movie more than the book.



SUMMERY OF MOVIE : Life and Love with Marley



This movie is about a couple who just got married and decide to adopt a dog rather than having kids because they thought a dog is not bother their life. But as soon as the dog comes home, they realize taking care of a dog is harder than it looks. They love to call their dog; Marley is the worst dog in the world.

Marley the dog gets his name when he comes home but in the car drive the radio turns on Bob Marley and John the husband decides to name the dog Marley. Later in the movie John and Jenny leave for a honeymoon trip and they leave Marley with a Dog sitter. The dog sitter has the worst time with Marley. He squealed dunning 11 thunderstorms. When john and Jenny got back the dog sitter was really unhappy and tired.


Even though Marley eat everything, cries nonstop during thunderstorms and endless shredded sofas, the family loves him more and more. I saw and learned through the movie and Marley that is love family, how to read the deep inside heart.


My favorite part of the movie was when Marley failed obedience school. To me, it was very funny watching the instructor falling and also Marley kept on doing the opposite things when the instructor said sit Marley would sort of stand.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

SUMMARY OF THE BOOK



The book, Marley and Me is based on the true story. The story starts when John Grogan and Jenny Vogt just get married. They both journalists and love each other living in Florida. Then they discuss and decide to get a Labrador puppy. After they name their dog Marley they decide that they need to take him to obedient school because he is destructive dog. Marley starts his school not listens to his teacher but he does the opposite of what he is supposed to do. When the teacher say sit Marley stands. So right in the beginning he fails and gets kicked out from the school.


After then Jenny and John have a baby and late they have two more children. The whole family love to call him the world's worst dog instead Marley. Then John gets a new job which is being a columnist at Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper Company and family has to move for his work. Even Marley made a big trouble family love and enjoy him deeply.


Marley gets weaker and weaker every day and he eats something that makes him sick. At the end of the book Marley gets a stomach twist and needs to do surgery. Since the twist is painful, Marley couldn't survive the surgery. The story end up sadly Marley passed away.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Born on March 20 ,1967 in Motor City, Detroit, Michigan. John Grogan lived in a neighborhood that was called Harbor Hills. One of the first things he has done was working at the church nearby as a office boy. He started to write because he was bad at everything else. Math,French, geometry, Etc he all failed. Later in 8th grade we was penning parodies of the nuns and in for high school he was writing the school newspaper. John Grogan's got his full-time job in 1979. He was hired as a police reporter. John had lots of fun being a police reporter. In 1985 john won a fellowship into the Kiplinger Mid-Career Program in Public Affairs Reporting at Ohio State University. A couple months later John got married to Jenny. Afterwards John wrote Marley & Me, which sold 5 million copies as a book.