Nothing Last Forever: Conections

A text to text conection I can make for the book is I can compare it to the book First Blood by David Morrele. The main conection is that in the book First Blood, the main charecter John Rambo is a vietnam vet on his way home when he stops in a small town and the sherrif pushes him to far and he goes on a one man war. Now that I explained First Blood the conection is  they are both in the wrong place at the wrong time and they end up becoming a one man army, becuase Rambo has to fight the military and the police while Joe Leland the main charecter in Nothing Last Forever has to fight gun toting terrorist that take over a building that he happens to be in so he also has to become a one man army like Rambo in First Blood. Another connection I can make is to the book 58 Minutes and based on a plot summary it is about this guy who is also a cop is trapped in an airport that terrorist take over and his daughter is on one of the planes that has to land at the airport, so this connect in the fact that it is the same story but in an air port and in fact is the basis for the sequel to Die Hard witch is what they turned Nothing Last Forever into.


A text to self conection I can make is that in the book Joe Leeland is portayed and not wantig to get into a fight but can when thrown into the situation were he has to rescue his family. This connects to me because I am very reluctant to get into any sort of fight until someone messes with my firends or family because otherwise I am pretty non violent and I don't go looking to start a fight but sometimes things just happen, that I just get thrown into because I care for my frineds and family and don't like when they get hurt mentally or physically. Another conection I can make is that in the book Joe is antisocial while he is at the party and doesn't really talk to anyone but his daughter. The connection is that in reall life I am very shy and I really meet most of my friends becuase they are friends with someone else I know so I don't go out and go to parties to meet new people at all so I consider myself antisocial, and also I don't really talk to peole unless I know them.

Nothing Last Forever: Comparing the book to the movie Die Hard 1

The book Nothing Last Forever was written by Roderick Thorp and it was given good reviews by critics as  a follow up the novel The Detective, and after a while the 80's action movie was getting popular. Well the reason I put emphasis on that is that the writer of the movie intended this to be a sequel to the movie Commando but the star Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't interested in the project so it was rewritten to be more like the book and to be an original film. They change the main characters name from Joe Leland to John Mclane, and the villains are now robbers instead of terrorist as to make them less darker. They also change the name of the company from Klaxon to Nakatomi and it is a more straight forward action movie were as the book is more of a thriller and also a lot of the details and the time period are changed to match the time. The two are relatively close with almost all the action sequences staying the same, and a lot of the terrorist die in the same way in each and a few are extended upon in the movie. The big difference besides his name in the main protagonist is that Joe is a world war 2 veteran and John is a young cop who is more loose cannon and it also forgets the movie they the made the Detective into but they are connected technically so they are as of writing 6 Die Hard movies but most people forget the Detective.

Also the movie is a little more comedic as John Mclane cracks jokes at the antagonist throughout all the story but in the book it is a lot more serious as the stakes are higher because Joe can't do all the acrobatics that John does so it makes it more tense in a gun fight were Joe does get and isn't invincible as John is portrayed as. Also they are both rescuing different people were John rescues his wife and Joe is rescuing his Daughter so they change that aspect of the book, and to close I think the book is a little more realistic but there are still some goofy moments for a 56 year old to be doing and in the movie it does make more sense to make him younger because Frank Sinatra played him in the Detective and when they were casting this movie he was about 90 so he couldn't do the part but it said in the contract for the Detective that he had to be offered the sequel if it ever got made so I think it is smart to make him younger so I do think the changes they made were very necessary     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fahrenheit 451: Symbols that represent chareters

The symbol that best represent the main charecter Montag is a book, the main reason being that the whole story arch of his charecter so far is his job is to burn books and also he hides books becuase he wants to learn from them, and think differently then the other people he knows. The symbol that best represents his wife Mildred is an insane asylum because she is off her rocker when it comes to just accepting things as the norm and trying to commit suicide and not even remembering it, and that she thiinks a virtual family can replace a realone and that all the things she lives with are considered normal. The symbol that represents Captain Beatty is a firefighters hat because he himself is the captain of the firemen and he also enjoys starting the fires very much and takes his job very serious and thinks that this is the way things should be with burning books. The symbol that represents Claurice would be a peace sign because she is free spirited and almost hippy like with the way she acts compared to society. She also is different on the level that she doesn't like what normal is in the society they live in so she is quite rebellious in the eyes of most people in the society. A symbol that can represent most of the other charecters is a brainless zombie because everyoone in this society act as if the stuff they do is normal when really they act more like people getting from point A to point B without ever saying a word or even really having their own opinion on any thing. Because they don't question anything, and then Montag meets Claurice and he starts to question why he burns the books and why society is the way it is.

Nothing Last Forever: The best thing about my book

The best thing about my book so far is the amount of character development that the author includes. To go into detail the main character Joe Leland is the archetypal war hero that is called into action one last time. But the way he is described is much deeper and how his emotions are depicted in the random event he gets thrown into when terrorist take over a building. As far as I have read the character is tragic as a divorced, father, and an ex cop, that is trying to rekindle his relationship with his daughter who he is visiting for Christmas. He is also depicted as the rough and tough grizzled veteran that is at the end of his road, and he just wants to unwind and spend time with his family but is all shattered when the terrorist raid the building. Then on the opposite end of the spectrum we have the villains. The terrorist leader is Anton Gruber and he is a German radical terrorist who is described as dark and villainess, but they also add a sympathetic level when you here that the company he is taking over just made a shady business deal that could put a whole unspecified Asian country in hot water. They also talk about how the characters dark and does kill people and you do lose any form of remorse for this guy when he is ruthlessly killing people left and right just to prove a point and they don't give him any other reason except that they made a shady business deal, so they also make him sound dumb from Joes point of view when really in the grand scheme of things he is smart enough to know how to take over a building without the police knowing until a body is thrown out of a window onto a police car. To get off that point the character development is the one thing that stands out the most because without the steps the author takes to make Joe a likeable character that you make him more easy to care for when he has to try and rescue his daughter and the rest of the hostages, and you know how that he might not make it out alive and you root for him the hole the way through. They also talk about how the author makes you dislike the terrorist so much that when they go down you cheer and when they get someone you feel bad, and it gives you the get them feeling.