during the ice storm to get electrocuted by a live wire. At the same time Paul is with Libbets drinking and taking drugs. All of this is happening simultaneously on one fortuitous night.
             Though the events and a lot of the dialogue are the same in both the book and the movie the crux of the two are completely different. The book focuses a lot more on sexual tension and sexual exploration. The vocabulary they use is a lot more elaborate than the movie, actually it's more elaborate than most books. I see few books that use the word "orgasm" or "bestiality" at all. It's not typical book lingo. Though the vocabulary emphasizes the sexual nature of the book. The movie on the other hand probably wouldn't make a lot of money going with the erotic taboo nature of the book. Instead it focuses more around the ideas of family neglect and the hypocrisy of the parents doing what they don't want their kids to do. The story is more like an MTV clip of the real world than the book plot. Though that's what makes the movie so great. The people seem so real, like everyday people. The relation is even stronger because I live in an affluent community. The two different focuses put a different tint into the same story.
             For instance there is a scene where Sandy and Wendy are fooling around while their parents were gone. The dialogue is exactly the same. Wendy says, "Have you ever had a nocturnal emission" and Sandy replies, "Huh?" Wendy says, "They didn't tell you this stuff yet? What planet do you live on?" (149). In the movie it's pretty insignificant. The movie is more about the shock that these kids are fooling around in bed and the talk shows how they're so immature about sex. In the book though this is significant because the next page they show what Wendy is thinking and how she doesn't even know what she is talking about. "She didn't know ...