What's Eating Gilbert Grape

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" This paper examines the translation of a novel into a film, through the comparison between Peter Hedges' novel, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and the film directed by Lasse Hallstrom from Hedges' screenplay. While the film is faithful to many of the principal characters and incidents in the book, it differs in several minor respects. More importantly, it makes only a brief, introductory attempt to retain the book's first-person narrative structure, thereby dramatically altering essential elements in the story and its central theme. This paper looks at the ways in which these two contrasting media are used to tell the story of small-town longing, frustration, and hope.
Gilbert Grape is still living at home in a highly dysfunctional family. His older brother, Larry, has managed to get away from the Iowa town on Endora which has trapped all the other..."

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