Unexplained Accident or Unleashed Anger? Stories can be told in many ways, from different points of view, with totally unlike outcomes. They can also be told the same way, with the same outcome, but include altered details. Its those fine points that make or brake the credibility of ones actions. It can justify someone of an accident, or convict someone of a crime. In the book and movie, Before and After, the little trivialities in …showed first 75 words of 448 total…

…showed last 75 words of 448 total…her and she swings at him with the jack. The book then changes its description of the rest by saying that he then takes the jack from her and with all his rage and anger swings it at her and kills her with it himself. Thus making him a murderer. This is where the book and movie differ. It is with that one little detail that the perception of Jacob’s character is completely different.