The American Family

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The American Family

After reading “Grover Dill And The Tasmanian Devil” by and interpreting it into the movie “A Christmas Story”, I was given a better understanding of the character’s roles as individuals, while carrying out the norms of the average American Family.
There were necessary changes that had to be made when making the movie, considering the novel took place during the summer and the movie during Christmas. One of the things I would have liked to see in the movie, that was left out from the book was Ralphie’s temper. In the book Ralphie discusses the killer that lies deep inside each one of us as he stares the Tasmanian devil eye-to-eye, knowing that he and the animal were both killers. In the movie, there are some hints that might give you an idea of his temper, one is when he blurted out the word fudge and another is when he is disappointed with his little orphan Annie secret decoder. Other than that we really do not know he has that bad of a temper until he blows his fuse on Scut Farcus the bully. Also in the book, the bully’s name is Grover Dill, which in the movie is Scut Farucs. Grover Dill does have a role in the movie but he only plays a henchman to Scut Farcus.
Another difference that made me realize it was summer, happened right after Ralphie got into the fight with Scut Farcus. During dinner when his mother is trying to smoothen things over with the old man about the fight, she says, “I see the Bears won today.” In the novel she says, “I see the White Sox’s won today.” This made it clear to me that the novel was going on during a baseball season, which is in the summer unlike football, which is played throughout the fall. Summer was the fact that was that.
I really enjoyed reading and watching both the novel and the movie. Doing so I was given a better understanding of the movie I have watched every Christmas of my entire life and I also saw other aspects of the story other than it ...