Open Book Vs Movie Essay

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An autobiography is an account written by a person, explain their life. An autobiography can tell you a lot of different attributes about a person, because the story is coming from their won perspective. Likewise, it can also bring biases. Overall, a proper autobiography will carefully display the person’s life while still making the plot appealing to the audience. In the book Open by Andre Agassi the author explains his life growing up as a tennis player who hated tennis. In contrast, in the movie The Blind Side directed by John Lee Hancock, he visualizes the success of a homeless, black teenager who made it into the NFL with the help of kind strangers. In my opinion, it is evident that Open delivered a better story than The Blind Side because the book has more detail, positively represented the athlete and showed appreciation of the sport.
In the novel Open, Andre Agassi is more effect at using detail to create a better plot than John Lee Hancock in the movie The Blind Side. In the novel, the reader learns why the main character learns to hate the sport he loves so much. For example, Andre Agassi states that he hates tennis because of the bad childhood he had due to his fathers schemes. The author is also effective at creating smaller plots in the novel that can be further looked at
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The use of detail helps the plot because the reader can identify the backstory of the main characters. The positive view on the main athlete proves that the source properly did it’s on job praising the athletes skill. Lastly, the appreciation of the sport shows the respect of the sport being played by the athlete and provides a basis on what the source will be about. It can be said that the more effort that is put into a source, the better the overall outcome of it whether it happens to be a book or a

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