Comparing Christy Brown's My Left Foot
In the excerpt from Christy Brown’s memoir (My Left Foot), there are several similarities, yet there are also many notable differences when compared to the movie adaptation. The film begins when Christy is an adult and flashes back to his younger years, when he was around ten years old. On the other hand, the short story takes place when he is five years of age, up until the time he finally wrote the letter “A”. Particularly the movie is in third person, while the short story is in first person from Christy Brown’s perspective. In the movie, Christy could move more and be more interactive than one would suspect him to be while reading the short story. During his younger years in the movie, his mother has less of an impact on him in comparison