Pursuit Of Happyness Compare And Contrast Essay - 1882 Words

Dream Chaser What drives you? What keeps your motivation flowing? The gripping story of Chris Gardner will surely spark a fire to the success you desire. â€Å"The Pursuit of Happyness† is a book that also inspired the self-titled movie. These two works have the ultimate story of triumph and self-perseverance. With both works being released in 2006, both number one seller for their respective audiences; they did carry many similarities and differences. Discussing each work, I will compare and contrast both works with the theme, settings, and characters and navigate the overall message they provide. In the book â€Å"The Pursuit of Happyness† author Chris Gardner writes a self-memoir. He discusses about the issues of fear and the uncertainties he†¦show more content†¦This is an influential point for both book and movie because it has the effect of showing how both mothers are in and out of their child’s life but yet the father reminds to keep everything together. Basing character tendencies on how the mothers leave and the main character (father) with stay. Yet the movie does not detail this information but is evident to the abandonment of his actual wife at one point in the film. In the film, the wife leaves at the one-hour mark (film time). The film keeps their focus off the wife/mother to put more power in the struggle of Gardner’s life as a father. In contrast, the film â€Å"The Pursuit of Happyness† featured the bigger picture of the actual story. More so the theme that Chris Gardner conveyed in the book. The film goes from struggling m arried couple with a son, to a struggling single father chasing the ultimate dream of successfulness. The difference from the book is that Chris Gardner and his wife were together on and off. They struggle to make the relationship work but have differences in what they want to pursue. In the chapter â€Å"Turned Out (advanced), the wife reappears after leaving the relationship and they still continue having problems. â€Å"While I had thought that my trip to meet my father would give me and Jackie [wife] the break we needed to appreciate each other more and help put everything in perspective, the stress picked up exactly where it had been before.† (Gardner 192). After trying to give hisShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of Seeing And Making Culture : Representing The Poor By Bell Hooks1632 Words   |  7 Pagesfrom the average people of our society. Hooks arguments are mostly valid which helps the reader compare and contrast points, but she doesn’t portray the true lifestyle of a poor person very well as it can be seen in movies such as The Pursuit of Happyness and Oliver, which essentially forces the reader to only be exposed to one perspective of living in poverty. In the movie,â€Å"The Pursuit of Happyness†, Chris Gardner and his son are evicted from their own apartment due to them being financially unstable