Drugstore Cowboy
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The novel Drugstore Cowboy was written by a drug abuser who spent most of his life in jail, James Fogle. In both the novel and the film of it directed by Gus Van Sant, we are treated to the lives and travels of four drug abusers whose lives consist mainly of traveling around knocking off drugstores for their next high. In their co-dependence and addiction, the two couples in both the novel and film resemble a family dynamic û at least the only family they can relate to on any significant level. Both novel and film characterize drug abusers as individuals who are not particularly bad but do exhibit weaknesses, in each case a weakness for drugs. While both the novel and film are very well-crafted and compelling, I would argue that the film of the novel is more compelling.Perhaps one of the biggest reasons the film is more compelling with than the novel on which it is based is because of the subject matter. The subject matter is drug abuse that leads to thievery and jail, not to mention the death of one member of the family, Nadine. In both the novel and the film, the characterÆs lives are consumed by drug-taking and drug-seeking. Fogle (1989) writes of the main character Bob Hughes, ôBob talked of nothing but drugs, all the pharmacies he had taken, how fat they had been and how easy or how much trouble each of the scores had been,ö (41). Even though Bob and Diane have been together since they were young, drugs are far more enticing to each than
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