The book version of A Simple Plan was better because it was more descriptive than the movie version. The author was able to give more details in the book than you would notice in a movie, for example, "It was farmland, unrelentingly flat but made over to look like it wasn't. The roads curved around imaginary obstacles, and people constructed little hills in their front yards, like burial mounds, covering them with shrubbery. The houses up and down the street were tiny, each one built right up against the next..." (5). Another example of the details in the book is, "The collie was sitting on the porch. It didn't bark this time though; it simply stared at my station wag

The plot of the movie was much better than the book's plot. In the movie, fewer people died so it wasn't so violent and it was easier to empathize with the main character. Hank killed Jacob, his brother, in cold blood to save himself, which made the book distasteful, whereas in the movie, when Jacob begged Hank to kill him, it seemed like he was doing it for Jacob's sake. It was more believable that Hank would go to the airplane with the men and kill the FBI imposter than that the FBI imposter had been in a car accident and was shot by a state trooper. The book's way that the FBI imposter died was too convenient for the situation.

The book did a better job of making the reader feel like they were a part of the story because it was told through the eyes of the main character and let you know all his thoughts and ideas, whereas the movie only showed the expressions on his face and body language. For example, in the book Hank thinks to himself, "I didn't ha

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