Here is a critical view comparing the book and the movie's strong and weak points.

Peekay: In the book, we never get to know his real name. It's interesting how he sails through his high school using just this one name. In the beginning of the story he acts as the narrator and never gets to tell us his name. He talks of all the different names that his hateful schoolmates called him. Most of these names, like pisskop and Roineck, were brought about by the fact that he was an English boy w

Equates and relates his uttering to the surrounding making his line of thought easy to translate.

Police Force: The main interaction with the police force in the book is in the prison holdings. The majority is arrogant, and racist. They are very inhumane and treat the prisoners like mere punching bags and entertainment dummies. In the movie, they are major constituents of the story line. Botha and the propagators of apartheid use the police force as a yielding go between to achieve their goals.

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Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page double spaced)