My Product of Book #4

Before I read 'The Longest Ride' I said I was going to pose a question for myself and that question was whether or not I was happy with seeing the movie before I read the book. My answer is yes; I am not a huge reader to begin with so that could be a factor why I don't regret seeing the movie before I read the book. After seeing the movie it is all I could think about for days and I just wanted to watch it over and over again and that is what made me want to read the book. I think that if I did not see the movie I wouldn't of thought of reading the book. I probably would of eventually read the book but not as recent as I did. Reading the book made the story live out longer in my brain, while I was reading the book I could play the scenes in my head and picture almost every little detail; this probably wouldn't of been as fun if the book and movie were not basically identical but they are so it made reading the book that much more fun! Some people don't like to see the movie until they have read the book because they like to see if what they imagined is anything like the movie and I understand that but sometimes it is fun to already have the image in your head so you can have every detail pictured in your head.

I have also decided to do a problem/solution chart with the 2 main characters (Luke and Sophia) and also a few things throughout the book:

Problem-

• Sophia at first wanted nothing to do with going out with her friends, she wanted to stay in their house and study for exams
• Sophia and Luke have their first date, he comes and picks her up, everything goes great until, Sophia told him she has an internship in New York all summer
• Luke and Sophia are on their way home from their first date, it is pouring rain and they see a car off the side of the highway that is crashed
• Luke is a bull rider but also has a very serious head condition from getting thrown off a bull very roughly a while back. Sophia later finds out about the head condition and tells Luke it is either stop bull riding or they can't be together. Luke doesn't want to stop until he reaches #1 so they break up
• Sophia has always wanted to live in the city to have an art gallery but Luke has always grown up on a farm and he wants to keep it that way

Solution-

• Her friends convince her to get ready and go out with them if they promise they won't be out long but little did she know she'd end up meeting a boy, Luke, she is really into
• Luke and Sophia discuss a lot and she ends up going to New York really isn't what she wants so she ends up staying to be with Luke  
• They stop the car and get out to find an older man who they weren't sure if he was dead or not and get him to the hospital for him to survive
• Luke continues bull riding but later becomes content with how far he has made it and stops; him and Sophia get back together
• After the death of Ira (the elder man who crashed) they had won all that art and Sophia buys and starts a gallery of her own, and Luke has a farm that he owns and runs during the day and they both go home together each night so it is the best of both worlds