Many people ask a simple question, which is better the book or the movie? For the book Cujo, by stephen king, the answer is quite simple. You can’t compare the book to the movie, the book beats the movie by miles. The main difference between the book and the movie is details. In the book we get a lot of details about the life of not only Cujo but other people in the story, for example Brett and Charity Chamber. In the book, after they left for vacation, they kept calling back and the story kept going to what they were doing for even small amounts of time so they stay in the story and we know what their characters are like. In the movie they were only there for a small amount of time then once they left for vacation, they were gone for the rest of the movie not giving us a good sense of what the characters are really like and they don’t really have an important role in the movie like they did in the book. …show more content…
In the story he left town before the book even took place, when he calls home to Donna ( Donna is wife of Vic) and she doesn’t answer his call, he calls the police to check on her, when the police check on her they find the house vandalized. In the movie however, Vic leaves during the movie then when he returns he finds the house vandalized, he never called back to check on her or called the cops which he did in the book which I feel like is a small but important detail. Another example of a small detail being left out, is when Donna gets bit by Cujo. In the book it explains to us how she got rabies from Cujo and, in the end of the story, it is mentioned that she had to go through the rabie treatment and has