Smoke Signals Movie&Paper Compare&Contrast
Comparison and Contrast Essay
Smoke Signals and “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix”
Smoke Signals is the story of two Native Americans, named Thomas and Victor, who grew up together and go off on an adventure to find who they really are. Thomas is young and lives with his grandmother, because his parents died in a fire when he was a baby; as we later find out, Victor’s father Arnold started the fire. Thomas lives by the morals and ethics of a traditional Native American, following the beliefs and telling stories. Victor is a mean and cold person on the outside, but emotionally distressed about his father and his childhood on the inside. Victor is always being rude to Thomas and easily annoyed by his storytelling. Thomas tells stories of Arnold, Victor’s father, which Victor hates because of the history he has and how he hates his father, but throughout their journey feelings change and Thomas and Victor become closer than ever. The story for both the movie and the short story start the same, Arnold had started a fire on a July 4th when Victor and Thomas were babies, and Thomas’s parents died but they threw Thomas out the window and Arnold caught him.
There are many differences between the movie and the short story revolving around the relationship of, and the characteristics of Victor and Thomas. The first big difference is that in the short story Thomas and Victor are cousins, but in the movie they are just friends that grew up together. While they’re growing up Victor and Thomas got into a fight, in the movie it was when Thomas asked Victor why his father left him and kept on coming up with reasons himself, so Victor got enraged and beat up Thomas. In the short story it’s when they were fifteen and Victor was drunk and Norma, a lady driving by, had to step in. A scene that wasn’t in the short story was the story of when Thomas was watching Victor play basketball with some of his friends. This is important because in the movie Arnold focuses on how
Smoke Signals and “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix”
Smoke Signals is the story of two Native Americans, named Thomas and Victor, who grew up together and go off on an adventure to find who they really are. Thomas is young and lives with his grandmother, because his parents died in a fire when he was a baby; as we later find out, Victor’s father Arnold started the fire. Thomas lives by the morals and ethics of a traditional Native American, following the beliefs and telling stories. Victor is a mean and cold person on the outside, but emotionally distressed about his father and his childhood on the inside. Victor is always being rude to Thomas and easily annoyed by his storytelling. Thomas tells stories of Arnold, Victor’s father, which Victor hates because of the history he has and how he hates his father, but throughout their journey feelings change and Thomas and Victor become closer than ever. The story for both the movie and the short story start the same, Arnold had started a fire on a July 4th when Victor and Thomas were babies, and Thomas’s parents died but they threw Thomas out the window and Arnold caught him.
There are many differences between the movie and the short story revolving around the relationship of, and the characteristics of Victor and Thomas. The first big difference is that in the short story Thomas and Victor are cousins, but in the movie they are just friends that grew up together. While they’re growing up Victor and Thomas got into a fight, in the movie it was when Thomas asked Victor why his father left him and kept on coming up with reasons himself, so Victor got enraged and beat up Thomas. In the short story it’s when they were fifteen and Victor was drunk and Norma, a lady driving by, had to step in. A scene that wasn’t in the short story was the story of when Thomas was watching Victor play basketball with some of his friends. This is important because in the movie Arnold focuses on how