Comparsen Between the Book and Movie Cujo

Watching the movie is so much more interesting, and it grabs your

imagination by the hand. There are not that many things that are different in the

movie. In fact the movie describes what?s going on a little better than the book.

Basically the book seems like an out line of the whole story and the book gets

into details a little more.

In the beginning of the book it talks about Tad going to bed and how

he?s a little nervous because he thinks there is a monster under his bed. His

father tucks him into bed and says good night. About 10 minutes later Tad

wakes up screaming his head off saying he sees a monster in his closet. The

author doesn?t even describe what the ?monster? looks like. In the movie it

shows what the closet monster looks like, and some scary sounds to really get

the views attention. Next morning nothing exciting goes on, Vic goes to the

auto shop to get his car worked on. Tad plays with Cujo for the first time. I

mean there are only small little things that are different in the book and movie.

Like when Tad wakes up the next morning there are couches and books in front

of his closet door (in the movie). Another comparison would be when Vic?s

wife cheats on him with Steve Kemp. Book talks about Steven a little, doesn?t?

really get into detail. It doesn?t talk about what he looks like or what attracts

her to him. The only really big change that is really noticeable would be when

Cujo attacks Vic?s wife and his son Tad, while they are still stuck in the car.

The book talks about how Cujo does run into the car and how he transfers

rabies into the mother but what it doesn?t talk about is how violent Cujo is. He

was