Marley And Me

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The book Marley and Me was a well-written novel by John Grogan and was later brought to life in film by David Frankel, the director of the movie. The film did the book justice and gave the readers even more of a reason to believe that a dog is, and always will be a man’s best friend. Marley and Me shows us the ups and downs that any dog owner may face when trying to train, play with, and even walk a dog. Though it is not said out right, the book mainly focuses on the relationship between John and Jenny and hints that Marley is preparing the couple for a child. This amazing story shows us that though dogs may be a handful, you will learn to love them unconditionally. They’ll be there through the good times, like when Grogan’s wife gets pregnant, …show more content…

I pictured Jenny, Grogan’s wife, a bit more innocent. Not that I’m saying Jennifer Aniston did a bad job with the role, she’s an amazing actress, I’m simply saying that she looked to bold for the part in my mind. However, I do have to give Frankel some credit, Owen Wilson was exactly how I pictured John Grogan when reading the book. He also picked the right person when casting Kathleen Turner for Ms. Kornblut, the dog trainer. She was perfect for this role, she was stern, rude at times, and always assumed she was correct. But, in the beginning when they first go to look at the puppies, the book makes Marley seem more rambunctious and excited to see the Grogans, but in the film he seems very mild and calm. He also added a character to the movie, Grogan’s best friend Sebastian, and supposedly he is the reason John and Jenny decide to move to Florida, which is not stated in the …show more content…

An instance of this is first seen when John and Jenny are sitting at home reading each other’s articles in the papers. In the novel John looks over Jenny’s shoulder and sees that Jenny was circling under the “Pets--Dogs” heading in the paper, he looked at this as though they needed to consider a trial run with a dog before they had children. In the film he basically just get’s her a dog so she has something to take care of. In the novel, Jenny isn’t able to pick up Marley with John because she is going to Disney World with her sister, niece, and nephew, but in the film she says she has to go write about a trial of tax evasion in Gainesville, Texas. This has an effect on the meaning of the novel, to me the act of Jenny spending time with her niece and nephew shows us that she would put a child or loved one before herself. The film also doesn’t go through the argument that John and Jenny have about the name of their new dog. I wish they would’ve explained more about the importance of the name “Marley.” Marley was named after the famous reggae singer Bob Marley, though Frankel does mention that in the book, he does not mention that Bob Marley’s music had always seemed to calm the couple down in hard times. In the book, Grogan had his first dog, named Shaun, when he was 10 years old, but in the film grogan says he’s never had a dog. This is important because in the

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