The story of Pay It Forward is about a boy who got an extra credit assignment in his Social class. The assignment was on thinking of an idea to change the world. Trevor the main boy in the story got an idea about helping other people. He named his idea Pay It Forward. Pay It Forward is an idea about helping other people. Pay It Forward consist in one person chose three people to help and each person chose three people to help and those other people chose three other people and so on. The Pay It Forward book and the movie have some major differences. The first difference between the book and the movie is the teacher. The second difference is about the way Trevor died. The third difference is the people Trevor helped. The last difference is meeting the president.
In the book I read about Mr. Reuben St Clair a social studies teacher. He went to the war in Vietnam and he got hurt really bad. He does not have one eye and all his face and most of his body burned when he was in the war. He is a black man. On the other hand, I saw the movie and this person is totally different from the book. Mr. Eugene Simonet a social studies teacher got hurt because of his father. His father burned most of his body with gasoline. He did not go to the war. He is a withe man.
For me the saddest moment in the Pay It Forward story was when Trevor died. In the book I read about Gordie an 18 years old boy who dress up like a girl. He lived in Washington. Trevor went to Washington to meet the president. Trevor wanted someone else to help. Someone was hitting Gordie. Trevor looked when Gordie was getting hurt and he went to helped him. Trevor risked his life to save Gordie. Trevor got hurt. After a surgery and time in the hospital Trevor died. On the movie something similar happened with Trevor’s death. Trevor was at school helping his friend Adam who was being bullied. He risked his life to save Adams life. Trevor got hurt with a knife. He died. The people who killed Trevor in the movie were little boys like Trevor’s age.
Trevor started the Pay It Forward idea. After he got the idea he needed three people to help. In the book the first person being helped was Jerry a homeless man with drug problems. Trevor gave money to Jerry and he helped him to find a job. The second person being helped in the book was Mr. St Clair. Trevor wanted to fix his mother and Reuben up. The third person being helped in the book was Ms. Greenberg. Trevor went to Ms. Greenberg house to fix his garden. On the movie some of the persons that Trevor helped were the same. Jerry and Mr. St Clair were the same in the book and in the movie. In the movie the last person being helped by Trevor was Adam. Trevor risked his life to save Adam. That why he died.
The last difference between the book and the movie is that in the book Trevor went to Washington to meet the president because his project was changing the world. Trevor was recognized by the president and by a lot of people around the world. In the movie Trevor did not go to Washington. He just was interviewed and he appeared in the news.
Pay it forward is a great idea. Even though there are some differences between the book and the movie both were amazing. It was a great experience for me reading and watching the movie. I really enjoyed the time I spend reading and watching Pay It Forward.
Good did trevor die?
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Deletehow do you know, it never actually comes out and says it clearly in the book and you can't use the movie as evidence because it was very different in many ways, such as in the book they live in Atascadero,California and in the movie they live in Las Vegas, Nevada. I rest my case.
DeleteWell I actually just finished the book like 10 minutes ago and I googled if he died or not because I have seen the movie a million times but this is the first time I read the book. I knew he died in the movie but in the book it actually doesn’t say he died. Here a a difference you forgot. In the movie the candle light march is after he died (plus the kids who stabbed him are there because they were only wanting to scare him and didn’t mean to actually stab him) anyway the march was after he died and it was in front of his house. His mom did not organize it and it shocked her and Eugene. In the book the march is where he is in the hospital and the mom organized the march to gather people to hope and pray for him to recover. And the story ends with the March. It never says he died, even though like I said, if you watch the movie you know he does. But I wonder how the author really intended that part.
ReplyDeleteIf you read that Trevor didn't die, then you must've read the Young Reader's Edition of the book, the first edition I read. It didn't say there that Trevor died because the author said through a letter that it's up to you on how the story will end. In the original book (not the Young Readers Edition), Trevor actually did die. So yeah - the book in which Trevor died is the original book. The one you read was just a separate edition.
DeleteYeah I can see that as I read the book and watched the movie
ReplyDeleteI think that he dies even in the young readers edition because my cousin read it...
ReplyDeleteIn the young readers edition, did trevor die
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he dies alright.
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in the middle it says he died
That's in the regular edition. In the young reader's edition, there is no page 302.
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