Sunday, December 21, 2008

All my sons-movie vs.book comparrison-OR #21

The book 'All my sons' was about a man, Joe Keller and his family. Joe's son, Larry had gone missing 3 years ago and his ex-fiance was in town to visit. What he and his wife didn't know was that she, Ann, and Joe's other son, Chris, had plans to be married. They had chosen not to tell them yet because Chris' mother, Kate, still believe that Larry would return.
Long story short, Joe and Kate and everyone for that matter later found that Larry had died, he wrote Ann about it. He killed himself because his father, Joe, and Ann's father, George were selling brokenm airplane parts and had killed 21 of his men. Joe at the end also kills himself because he finds that his own son killed himself because of the acts he had committed.

We recently read the book in class, and then watched the movie. The movie surprising was just how i pictured it in the book. I very much so enjoyed the movie, and the book for that matter. The stroy was very suspenseful, yet sad at times. I felt sorry for Joe. No father would intensionaly kill their child (unless of corse they were mentally disabled). Because Larry died on account of what he had done, he took his own life for punishment. At the same time though, I feel that he deserved it. He knew what he was doing. He could have prevented those broken airplane parts from being sold and then from being used and then from KILLING 21 men. But all he said was that he did it because of the buisness. If he hadn't sold them, he would be out of a job. There was alot of controversy in this book/movie. In all, Joe got what he deserved, and everyone else finally heard the end of Larry's mysterious disapperence those long, 3 years ago.

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