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The novel and movie both show violence and racism experienced by Saul as a hockey player. The movie doesn't accurately depict some scenes, like the crowd's disgusting behavior and the bar fight. Important characters like Rachel, Saul's sister, are left out in the movie. The movie also changes Father LeBoutelier's character development and the relationship between Saul and the Kellys. Overall, the movie lacks the emotions portrayed in the novel. Action throughout the novel and movie have both depicted violence and racism by involving Saul in harmful environments, such as being a star hockey player and creating him name for himself while playing for the Moose. During the time Saul was a hockey player for the Moose, he was unfortunately experiencing violence in several different ways such as being yelled at from the stands, being called racial slurs, and these events were both depicted well in the movie and the novel, but that was not always the case. In the novel, Saul claims that the crowd was rabid, garbage rained down on us, a group of them pissed and shat in our dressing room, but in the movie this never happened, and this really took some of the action away from the movie while also not showing how disgusting the fans really were in the novel. Another scene that was not done well in the movie was the bar scene. In the novel, it was said that it was in a cafe and this is where after a game Saul and his team, the Moose, went out for drinks, but in the novel this is not right as they were not drinking. During their time at the bar, some spectators from the hockey game came up to them and began to instigate a fight with Saul and his team, and that is when Virgil stood up, walked outside, and began to fight. After the fight, the spectators peed on him and laughed. The action in the novel and book was not done well and almost every detail was changed, but it impacted the similarities between the novel and the movie. The movie sometimes can leave out important characters and important relationships that Saul experiences throughout the novel. That took away from the gravity of the book. Many important characters are left out during the movie, such as Rachel, Saul's sister. In the novel, she plays a short but a significant role in Saul's life due to Rachel being kidnapped by the Zanagouche, which mentally took a toll on Saul's family. Towards the end of the novel and the movie, Saul experiences visions of the deceased that allow him to find closure, although it is implied that Rachel has been taken and potentially dead. She does not appear in the vision, which could mean she is still alive. In addition, Father LeBoutelier has more character development in the movie than in the novel, due to the fact that towards the end of the film, Father LeBoutelier apologizes to Saul in a vision which was never mentioned in the novel. This made it seem as if Saul had forgiven Father LeBoutelier for all the sexual abuse he had suffered during his time at St. Jerome's. Furthermore, the Kellys, which are Saul's foster parents, were very underdeveloped in the film, and the relationship between Fred Kelly and Saul was not fully there. In the novel, they were both written with a father-son connection, and the movie does not give that connection to Saul. Characterization in the film was unbelievably bad as it was missing key characters like Rachel and the relationship between the Kellys was not there. This takes away from Saul's emotions.