Part-Time Indian Movie Vs Book

The book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is about a boy named Arnold Spirit who is trying to find his way in his new school and his life. The movie Smoke Signals is about two young men named Thomas and Victor who travel all over the place to go to Arizona to go pick up Victor's dad ashes. First thing I'm going to talk about is alcoholism and abusement, second will be friendship, and third about how both of the boys love to play basketball. My first topic is about the movie and the book have in common is alcoholism and abusement. In the book Arnold dad drinks and is usually sober, but he is not abusive towards Arnold. Then Arnold’s friend Rowdy's dad drinks and beats on Rowdy and his mother.That’s the reason why Rowdy is so mean to people and beats them up. In the movie Victor's dad is abusive and beats up on his mother and him as well that’s why Victor has anger issues. The difference is how the book and the movie takes the alcoholism and abusement in their life's. In the movie Victor takes the alcoholism and abusement seriously and he holds on to his past, now in the book Rowdy takes his dad beating harshly to other and then let's it go and acts like nothing happened. Second topic is about

He was contemplating trying out for the basketball team but is not sure he can cut it. His coach made him do some drills and he saw potential in him. The coach said that he was the best shooter he has ever seen and ends up making varsity. Victor plays basketball to escape the real world and to relax himself. He usually played it with his father and that was their special bonding moment between them. The difference in the book and the movie is that basketball is a huge impact on Arnold life not so much of Victor. The reason being is that Victor doesn't really play that much because his father left him and he only at the community center with his