‘’Richard Strout was twenty-six years old, a high school athlete, football scholarship’’, (Dubus 64). Basically, in this story Richard is a lot younger and in the film, he’s a lot older. One thing, I hate about the reading, was that they told you in the beginning of the reading that Frank dies. I wanted to feel suspenseful in the reading. Plus, the reading wasn’t in chronological order. Richard Strout starts to threaten Frank, because he was jealous of the fact that Mary and Frank is going out with each other. Another difference is the name Mary; we see that in the film Mary name is Natalie and in the story her name is Mary. Later on, the story, Richard got so jealous that, ‘’Richard Strout shot Frank in front of the boys’’, (Dubus 67). Frank in the story, was sitting on the couch, and Mary Ann came from the kitchen with some sandwiches to eat. That’s when Richard came in the front door and shot him. In the movie, I believe Frank got shot only one time. Also, in this story Frank was in the chest. He was shot by a 9-mm automatic gun. …show more content…
We see a lovely relationship with Frank and Natalie or Mary Ann. Then, we start seeing jealousy coming from Richard Strout. The jealousy was so strong that we know that Richard ended up killing Frank. Frank was so precious to Ruth and Matt. As far as revenge, Matt as the father just couldn’t help the fact that his son Frank is dead, and will never be seen again. The anger and the frustration, Matt must have been going through led him to take another person’s life. Now, if this was my son that got shot by Richard, I too would be devastated. I would probably go after Richard and beat him up so badly that there’s blood all over him. Unlike, Matt I would have never taken a life, because you’re just sinning your soul and breaking the law. After, reading the book, then watching the film, I liked the film a lot more because it gives you more visualization of what’s happening in the movie. Also, the movie influenced me to understand what was going on in the film, because I saw how death of Frank happened and did Richard die at the