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This 13 page paper compares and contrasts the novel, A River Runs Through It, to the film version by the same name. Synopsis, metaphor, symbols, quotes all included. Cinematography and directing analyzed as well. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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best able to bring such extraordinary beauty to the attention of many more. This is the case of Norman Macleans novel, A River Runs Through It. The novel is a
deceptively sounding tale about a man and his familys love of fly fishing. On the surface, of course, that is true. However, the currents flow fast and deep in this
novel, so deep in fact that it was converted from a novel to screenplay when the reader of the library book was swept away by the intense human drama which
the novel embraced. The readers name was Robert Redford. But has the actual translation from print to screen been accomplished? The rest they say, is history. Redford determined that
this story should be something more than a coming of age movie. Macleans novel focuses on the protagonist named, Norman. As the boy grows older, idolizing both his father and
his brother, he is able to understand the rugged wisdom of his father, the wild independent spirit of his brother, and the deeply spiritual lessons that nature has to teach
anyone who will listen. The book is set in Montana where two brothers, each very different from one another are trying to
understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only point of unity, the only
thing that they all agree on. And, as Maclean will write, it is eventually the language of the river that gives rise to the understanding of life and the endurance
of it in the face of great adversity. Norman, whose viewpoint the novel follows, is more like his father in nature. His
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