The novel The House of Fog and Sand and its film adaptation are both viable options when it comes to the telling of how obsession led these unfortunate characters to each their own demise. That being said, The film and the novel do possess quite a few differences. Despite its differences, the two forms of media maintain just enough similarities that they can both branch off into its own original form without having fear of straying from the plot.
To begin, a point of similarity that the film has in comparison to the book is how both portray the significance of the house to the two main characters(Behrani and Kathy). Both individuals feel that they deserve the house and that it is rightfully theirs. Both forms of media properly show the intense longing
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To Behrani, the house stood for his family’s future in America. Both adaptations firmly grasped the desperation of Kathy in her fight for her house.
Next off, two of the major differences that can be seen regarding the movie and the novel include: how both looked into Lester(the police officer who helps Kathy) past and how both medias ended. Beginning with how both adaptations dealt with explaining Lester’s actions, the novel supplies the audience with details regarding his past. The book discusses(and goes into detail about) how the absence of his father during his adolescence and being bullied as a child greatly affected his future behaviors and actions. In the movie, details surrounding Lester’s past were mentioned but were never truly elaborated on. The second item that the movie and the book differed on was the ending. The book adaptation is a bit more graphic and provides more closure so to speak. In the book, Behrani, upon finding out that his son has died in the hospital, goes back to the house to