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A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean with the film Adaptation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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event, or string of events, involving an orchid thief. It is essentially Orleans story of uncovering some truths about a man named Laroche, a man who was responsible for stealing
rare orchids from a protected area of Florida. The book is, in many ways, a study of the fascination with orchids, of finding something meaningful in life, and also something
of a legal study as well. It was also the basis for a film, Adaptation. The following paper examines the two, comparing and contrasting, and also discusses a personal, and
relevant, experience. The Orchid Thief and Adaptation As mentioned, the book is primarily about Laroche, a man who was guilty of stealing orchids in Florida. The basic story
is as follows: "In 1994, John Laroche, the orchid thief and three Seminole Indian men, were caught leaving a Florida Wildlife Preserve with bags full of Ghost orchid (Polyrrhiza lindenii)
specimens. They challenged the arrest on the basis of a law allowing Native tribes to violate the endangered species act and some other rigmarole" (Brothers Judd). It is also a
story about the legalities of taking wild orchids, a story about the passion (almost fanatical passion) that people possess concerning orchids, a story about orchids and their sensitive nature, and
a story about finding ones passion in life. This is evident in the following as Orleans makes note of the obsession concerning orchids and regarding the people who "sincerely loved
something, trusted in the perfectibility of some living thing, lived for a myth about themselves and the idea of adventure, were convinced that certain things were really worth dying for,
believed that they could make their lives into whatever they dreamed" (Orleans 201) In the film adaptation the story is actually
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