
The book instead uses Chewandswallow people to build some inner stories: the Baby Brent’s sardine factory, the mayor, Flint past and Flint’s love story, Flint’s family, Sam’s nerd past, Brent’s fame need …. There’s no speculation in the book, no one wants to use the falling food like the mayor, there’s no greed … people just face the danger of the big food, bigger for no reason….Īs I said the book presents the Chewandswallow events as an inner story, a story in the story and there’s nothing else, I mean all the people are nameless and alike.


In the movie it’s real, it happens in a real world, it’s science not a fairy tale, Flint invented it for real and destroyed… The book doesn’t present the food weather like real but it’s only a bed time story told by a grandpa to his grandkids.

In the movie instead it’s Flint’s machine that makes it happen. The main difference is that in the book the food falls from the sky for no reason, the writer doesn’t inform us about why it happens.
