The Best Of Me Book Vs Movie

The Best of Me is a book with a lot of romance, drama, and fun. The book portrays different things than the movie did. There was also the similarities. The book and movie will both go back and forth from Dawson and Amanda’s summer together, to present time where they are in their lives. The book and and movie were both tear jerkers, and I recommend reading the book and watching the movie.
There were many differences in the book compared to the movie. One of the differences was in the movie Dawson has always known of Amanda, but truly introduced himself to her when he was working at a restaurant, in the book they started as lab partners. Another thing that was different was in the movie the director made it seem that Dawson killed Bobby Cole, which was not even a character in the book, when in the book he killed a doctor in a car accident. In both the movie and the book, Tuck dies and has Amanda and Dawson reunite in Oriental where they look back on the memories they made when they dated in high school.
The movie and book portray that the Cole’s and the Colier’s do not get along. So when Amanda Colier and Dawson Cole start dating that leaves a bad relationship

for Amanda and her parents. They try to do everything they can to split the two up. It eventually works when Amanda gets accepted to Duke, and Dawson realizes that they do not have the same futures.

Similarities that I thought that were important to the book and movie was they kept Tuck the same.

If they were to change Tuck’s character it could lose importance of why Dawson got to stay with Tuck throughout his whole high school time. Tuck was lonely because he lost his wife, Clara, a little bit before Dawson one night crashed in Tuck’s shop. Tuck was like a father figure to Dawson, even if he never admitted it. He let him eat his food, use his bathing stuff, and let him sleep under a roof. It is important that the director of the movie kept in that Dawson’s father kept coming back to Tuck’s shop for Dawson’s money because it helps the audience realize how bad the Cole’s were. The Cole’s in both the movie and book are not looked upon as good people. They kill people, steal things, and are in jail a

lot.
Both in the book and movie Amanda and her husband Frank do not have a good marriage. They met at college, and ended up marrying. They are wealthy because he has his own dentist place. They originally had three children, after one of them got cancer and died things changed between Amanda and Frank. Frank started to drink more and more each day. In the book after the visit to Oriental when she reunites with Dawson, she continues to live her days with Frank. Comparing it the movie, she goes home to get her things to meet Dawson again, and tells Frank she is leaving him.
A huge difference from the book to movie was at the end when Dawson was back in Oriental after Tuck passed away Nicholas Sparks writes that Dawson is killed by one of his cousins. In the movie, however, he was shot by his father to make it more dramatic. Dawson was an organ donor, so then when he died all of his organs were given to someone else. That person happened to be Amanda’s son. Amanda in the book already knew whose heart was transplanted to her son, but her son never had to find out, but in the movie it was her son that looked into it and told his mother.
The book and movie both had people in tears. It is very surprising, and fun to read. Nicholas Sparks did a great job because he related summer romance to teenagers and people in their middle ages because it goes from when they are in their forties, to when they are eighteen. I personally liked the book better, just because of all the details, but the movie was very good.