Stephan King once said that “books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different”. For the most part this quote is accurate when depicting book to movie adaptations. Book to movie adaptations follow the same story lines and have the same characters, but at times they can be vastly different. In the book to movie adaptation of the Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells, the two forms of the story are widely different. Despite these differences the relationships between characters was strikingly similar. One of the similarities between the two versions of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is how the relationships between characters were portrayed. In the beginning of the novel and movie Siddalee recounts her
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Vivi is unwilling to speak to Siddalee after the article, so the strain on their relationship only grows. As the story progresses and Siddalee learns more about her mother’s past and why she abused her and they both are able to forgive each other. This forgiveness is demonstrated when Vivi tells Siddalee that all she wanted was for her to “return safely to me” (p. 346). While the relationship between Siddalee and Vivi was a big part of the storyline in both the movie and book version, so was the bond between the Ya-Ya sisters, Vivi, Caro, Teensy, and Necie. The Ya-Ya sisters may not be related by blood, but they really act like they are sisters. When the women were younger they even made an oath to each other that they “swear to be loyal to my sister Ya-Yas, and to live and look out for them” (p. 73).The bond that the women made when they were in their youth stayed strong even after their children were adults. The book to movie adaptation displayed the relationships between the characters in good detail, but there were some major differences in other aspects of the storyline. The Ya-Ya sisters had a reputation to be wild in the book, but in the movie the sisters were more than just
Vivi is unwilling to speak to Siddalee after the article, so the strain on their relationship only grows. As the story progresses and Siddalee learns more about her mother’s past and why she abused her and they both are able to forgive each other. This forgiveness is demonstrated when Vivi tells Siddalee that all she wanted was for her to “return safely to me” (p. 346). While the relationship between Siddalee and Vivi was a big part of the storyline in both the movie and book version, so was the bond between the Ya-Ya sisters, Vivi, Caro, Teensy, and Necie. The Ya-Ya sisters may not be related by blood, but they really act like they are sisters. When the women were younger they even made an oath to each other that they “swear to be loyal to my sister Ya-Yas, and to live and look out for them” (p. 73).The bond that the women made when they were in their youth stayed strong even after their children were adults. The book to movie adaptation displayed the relationships between the characters in good detail, but there were some major differences in other aspects of the storyline. The Ya-Ya sisters had a reputation to be wild in the book, but in the movie the sisters were more than just