e void for Toby. So she sends him to live with Dwight and his kids in Chinook. I really like the book’s description of the thoughts that Toby has about packing up again and starting over. He feels that he can be a whole new person that everyone likes and looks up to. Toby felt that people like Marion and his principle already had bad ideas about him and that he never had a chance in Seattle. We know as readers and viewers that he was sort of a bad kid that just came from a broken family. Life with Dwight proves right away to be a terrible situation for Toby when Dwight starts putting him down on the car ride. This scene of the car ride is done very well in both the film and the book and is a very emotional turning point in Toby’s life. He is not going to be living in a care free and easy going a way as he has in the past. Almost right away Dwight has several chores for him to do and a paper route to keep him busy after school. This proves to still be not enough for Toby because he finds a bad crowd to make friends with.Eventually Rosemary does marry Dwight and she moves to Chinook to finally make a complete family. This is the strongest part of the film. The scene when Dwight and Rosemary are having sex is a really good account of why the two are not getting along, which the book does not go into describing to well. Dwight is very stern in letting Rosemary know that he is the man in the house and what he says goes. The book, however, gives many more accounts about the things that go on between Toby and Dwight, and the movie just makes these scenes more violent than what really happened. This is of course so the viewer does not get board with what has really happened between the two of them. Another part of the book that I personally enjoyed that was not in the film was when Toby found the old letters in his mother’s drawer from her brother. The reason this was an important part of the whole story for ...
