The story is a realistic story about the Hoods and the Willams. Both of these families were affluent families that lived in New Canaan. The book centers around Wendy and the events that take place during the their thanksgiving in the 70s. The story is pretty simple and is about family strife. Wendy is a typical adolescent exploring her sexuality. At the same time her parents, Ben and Elena are having marital differences. Ben is cheating on his wife with Janey, the wife of his close friend Jim. The irony comes up with Wendy who is has sexual relations with Janey and Jim's son Mikey and his younger brother Sandy. Wendy's older broth

The backbone has clearly changed, but the movie also has some other noticeable changes for the better. For instance the start of the movie shows Paul heading back home from New Canaan after his train got frozen over. This part is at the end of the book, so the movie actually starts on a flashback. Though during the trail Paul interjects certain deep sayings. He makes analogies by using the Fantastic Four comic book, his favorite comic book. For instance he says while the train is going to Libbets house, "All every day assumptions are inverted invisible girl is now visible ... Every person on a partially negative zone. They dip in and out of where things shouldn't work out they way they should, but for some people there's something about the negative zone that temps them and they end up going in, all the way." This quote makes a lot of sense especially when it is played. The quote is played before all the cataclysmic events happen, this is the afternoon before the key party where Paul is heading to New York to Libbets' house. The flashback ends with Paul coming back from the train ride, the same scene from the beginning is played over and Paul arrives in the station to see his puzzled family. The movie ends with Ben putting his hands in his head and crying. The ending is symbolic in the context of the movie. Ben feels that his affair has caused his family to break down. The crying is a symbol of all the chaos that the family went through. It's like everything is done with and what have we done? That type of thought is what is provoked in the viewer's mind. At the same time Paul and Wendy look at each other with shocked faces and Elena has a face of despair. Their countenance amplifies the confusion that came after all the family problems. The director did a similar move to the movie "Kids", which is a movie about trouble teenagers. At the end one of the main characters wakes up and says "Jesus Christ what have I done?" The idea of the shocking realization after the mistakes have been made is used well in this movie. It gives the same type of bone chilling response from the viewer. Though, the book doesn't end here. The book ends with the narrator revealing himself, Paul, and him leaving his family. "I have to leave him and his family there because after all this time, after twenty years, it's time I left. Finis" (279). The book shows that Paul has grown up from his family's confusion and his adolescent sexual nature. The book does do a good job starting every chapter. The first few paragraphs of every chapter start with Paul saying something about the time period that he lived in. It really helped capture the spirit and setting of the book. The opening is really outstanding where Paul says, "So let me dish you this comedy about a family I knew when I was growing up. No answering machines. And no call waiting. No Caller I.D. No compact disc recorders or laser discs or holography or cable television or MTV. No multiplex cinemas or word processors or laser printers or modems" (3). It's much longer than that, but the jist of it captures the period of the sixties, which is a completely different time period with different morals and different problems. The movie should have started with Paul on the train and going through that speech, it was really well written.

er Paul who goes to boarding school returns home and is sexual inexperienced he desires to be with a girl named Libbets. The story centers around a key party that both the Hood's and Willams' attend. The highlight of the key party is where people place their keys into a jar and people pick up the keys of different people to have sex with the owner of the keys. At this party Ben expects to have sex with Janey, but instead Janey blows him off and has sex with someone else. This night Elena also finds out about the affair and has an affair with Jim, Janey's wife. Now while both of the

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