Blog Post- Six Erica Currier

Movies and books have a similar goal, to tell a story. One does it visually and with spoken words, the other with imagination and ink. Both are important and needed in the world but the world is seeing fewer and fewer of the second and much, much more of the first. Why is this important? Books create a dependent story that is different for everyone. One of my favorite questions for fellow book lovers is "What do you think of the ending of Catcher in the Rye?" I've heard so many answers that vary so completely it seems like we aren't even reading the same book. This is why books are important.

They make you think. As I write this I can't wait to be done so I can pick up my library copy of Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go" which is so uplifting in the bleakest of ways. I have seen the movie so I know how it ends but something was lost in translation, as the movie was not uplifting at all but just gut wrenching. This is why, in a recent discussion when I told someone I had only saw the movie they shoved the book in my hand and made me read it. There is an entire series on YouTube based on this and many more videos who respond to these videos, and these videos who have reassured me that I am not the only one who thinks that people who have only seen the movies "know" the story. (Don't even get me started on Harry Potter and what they did to Hermione and Ron characters)