Pay it Foward

“Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.” (Hyde, __). This quote proves people can change the world without making a major difference or change in the world. For instance, in Pay it Forward the book Trevor McKinney started this movement called Pay it Forward, where you help three people and that three people help three people each and so on. However, in the movie even though the director followed the same baseline of Pay it forward the majority of the movie was different from the original book, but that does not mean the entire movie was different. There were several similarities throughout the movie.

Starting from the beginning of the novel Reuben St. Clair a social studies teacher gives the class an extra credit assignment. The assignment was, “Think about an idea that would change the world and put it in action.”(Hyde,__) In the movie, the director had to incorporate this because this assignment affected everyone in the book and it would change the entire movie. In addition from the novel, while riding home from school one day Trevor found a homeless man named Jerry. To start the assignment Trevor choose Jerry as one of the three people he would help and make a difference in their life. Trevor brought Jerry home to help him get cleaned up and back on his feet by letting him take a shower and giving up his allowance to help him. In the movie the same concept happens. Furthermore, Trevor paid it forward to his own mother and his social studies teacher by setting up a date for them, to enjoy themselves and form a relationship, which in the movie this scene is included. As a result, Jerr...

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...ad compared to the book. However, the director should have followed the book more instead of changing the majority of the movie because the movie didn’t grab my attention in the beginning and would have made more people emotional if it included more scenes from the book.

Trevor McKinney proved people can change the world without making a major difference or change in the world. For instance Trevor McKinney started this movement called Pay it Forward, where you help three people and that three people help three people each and so on. However, in the movie even though the director followed the same baseline of Pay it forward the majority of the movie was different from the original book, but that doesn’t mean the entire movie was different. There were several similarities throughout the movie. Either by a character, the setting, or how the character view things.