Bernard Malamud wrote, The Natural and provided the story line for the movie “The Natural”. Although he played a role in both pieces of work, there are still some similarities and even differences between the two. Both the novel and movie begin with the story of Roy Hobbes getting drafted in the Major League. On his way to his team, Harriet Bird “pulled the trigger. The bullet cut a silver line across the water” (pg.34) and hits Roy. Roy would then be unable to play baseball for many years, due to the injury.
A similarity between both works was that Roy Hobbes had a bat named Wonder Boy. Roy felt like this was his lucky bat. Wonder Boy was made of a tree that was struck down by lightning during a storm when Roy was younger. Roy then engraved
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In the novel, the amount of time from Roy getting hurt and getting back into baseball was 15 years. In the movie the amount of time was 16 years. When Roy gets back into the game he meets a lovely woman Iris Lemon. Although Roy really enjoys the company of a fellow team mate’s Bump Bailey’s girlfriend Memo Paris. Roy wanted to be with Memo, but her luring him in was all a part of a plan to get him to throw the pennant game. Iris loves Roy in the novel go to the beach and going swimming and have a very intimate moment together. Whereas in the movie this scene is not included. Iris does tell Roy in the novel about how she is a grandmother, although in the movie she has a teenage son who doesn’t have any children.
The scenes and where they took place in both pieces where different as well. In the novel, Roy plays for the New York Knights, their stadium is in New York City. In the movie the scenes in which the team plays ball was in Western New York. The movie showed many parks of Western New York, All-High Stadium was used for a scene in place of the Chicago’s Wrigley Field. Despite the differences, the movie portrayed the novel very well. The actors successful, fulfilled the roles of the characters from the novel. They even included little details to catch the eyes of the audience, such as Roy’s glass eye. There weren’t any added scenes in the