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Can you list all the changes from book to film?


Can you list all the changes from book to film?

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In a word? No. (Fair warning, there may be spoilers throughout.) Seriously, the films—especially Love’s Enduring Promise—bear so little resemblance to the book that they would have been better off changing the names and making it totally unrelated to anything Janette Oke wrote. Missie does become a school-teacher. She does marry a guy named Willie LaHaye who teased her in school. And Clark does get hurt in the leg, though it’s not as major as it was in the film. Those are the only things that are the same! The book begins when Missie is five and ends right before she gets married! The schoolhouse has only just been built. We watch Missie grow up along with the rest of the family. Clark and Marty unofficially adopt two children, and have a few more biological ones (that is, a few more than they had in the film).There’s also a lot more about what goes on in the community, how they pick the school-teacher, build a church, find a pastor, etc. We see various births, deaths, and marriages. There’s no rich surveyor guy that Missie thinks about marrying and Willie isn’t a troubled man struggling to deal with a tragedy in his childhood.

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This is from my favorite series. While I enjoy the movies I hate the huge changes. Why they would change it so much doesn't make sense.

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