Our America Book Vs Movie Essay

In Our America: on the southside of Chicago the book is very different than the movie. Some books may be better than the movie, and some movies may be better than the book. In Our America: Life and Death on the Southside talks about how kids that live in the ghetto live differently. Our America i two boys LeAlan and Lloyd, they make a documentary about their life and the Eric Morse incident and how they grow up in elementary and high school.I am going to compare and contrast the book and the movie. In the book and the movie there more differences than similarities.
There are many differences in the movie that were not in the book. In the movie there is a new character in the movie that was not in the book. This character was David Isay.

David played a really powerful part in this book. David was the character that helped them start the documentary and to help them tell their life stories. Also their is another character and that is Principal Williams. She played a big role in the movie too. Ms.Williams was the character that had a radio show too but thought that because David Isay was white that he forced LeAlan and Lloyd into making the documentary all about how bad their neighborhood was, and they did tell any good things about their neighborhood. These are not the only differences in the book.
There are many more differences where that came from.

In the movie dwayne plays a good part. Dwayne was the guys that stuck up for them even though people did not like their documentary. Dwayne did get shot although that did not happen in the book. Another difference most of the characters that were in the book looked way younger that what the picture said that they looked like in the book. The book did not tell us that Lloyd liked to gamble. Lloyd gambled and almost got shot in the movie. In the movie Lloyd was like the bad guy in the movie, the movie told only bad things about Lloyd and only good things about LeAlan. Another difference in the movie is that the boys who threw Eric Morse out the window were sentenced to Juvenile Detention Center till the age of twenty-one. This is a big part because they never told what the verdict was which made it seem like they were let free from what they did. The last difference is in the movie the vacant apartment that in the book said that it looked creepy and run down it looked really nice in the apartment and I did not really understand why no one lived there.
Although there are many differences there are some similarities in the book also. They still did show the part where no one would talk to them except for the lady that said that she felt responsible for it. They also showed the part where LeAlan was talking to his sister and all the friends that she lost. They still talk about the Erice Morse incident. That is a very important

incident because a five year old boy lost his life just for being honest and because he did not steal candy.
In Conclusion, The movie and the book have many similarities such as the incident with Eric Morse. But the book and the movie also have many very many differences such as the new characters David Isay and Principal Williams that played major roles in the movie. There are also differences with bad things that happened to the character that did not happen in the book. As you can see there are many differences than more similarities. In the end some movies are better than books and some books are better than movies (fyi the books are totally better than the movies by the way). As LeAlan would say “signing off. Peace.”