Pay Forward is a novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde, released in 1999 adapted into theatially released Theatically released films and DVDs of 2000-2001. The second young adult version of the novel was released in 2014.
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Plot summary
When twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney started seventh grade in Atascadero, California, his social studies teacher gave classes to the task of organizing and implementing a plan that would change the world for the better. Trevor's plan is a charity program based on a network of good deeds. He called his plan, "Pay It Forward", meaning the beneficiary would help three others. However, it needs great support that the recipient can not solve it. Trevor first begins by helping Jerry, an unemployed man who can not find a home. However, he seems to have forgotten to complete three aids and end up in jail. Furthermore, Trevor directly assisted his IPS teacher, Mr. Reuben St. Clair. Finally, she helped her. Greenberg, who eventually died. But unbeknownst to Trevor, Mr. Greenberg has helped three friends by giving them $ 8,333 in his will. One of them, Matt, meets a wounded gangster in an alley, named Sidney G. After helping the man, it turns out the gangster is helping another man, who also saves his lifelong rival life for his kindness.
Seeing the chain, Chris Chandler, a reporter, connects the dots, and finds Trevor. Even further, Trevor's mother, whose father had gone, struck a relationship with Mr. St. Clair, Social Sciences teacher Trevor, and Jerry sounded again, helping a woman not to kill herself. This novel details how Trevor's "Pay It Forward" effort succeeds or does not work and how some of the "Pay It Forward" chains produce events like Trevor met the President, and Trevor's untimely death, made by one last person to help in his Pay It Forward which soon turned into "The Movement".
Since then, the novel has been translated into twenty languages ​​for publication in over thirty countries and was chosen among the Best Books for Young Adults in 2001 by the American Library Association.
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Differences from movie
The main differences are settings and related characters. Instead the mother was a desperate alcoholic in Las Vegas, Nevada, the original story was based in Atascadero, California, a town not far from where Catherine Ryan Hyde lived.
Teacher burns, instead of being inflicted as heinous crimes by his father, were the result of napalm injuries suffered during military service during the Vietnam War. Trevor's discovery came from a different source (dropping the crime rate in one state prison) and Trevor's story drew considerable fame that he could meet the President of the United States before his death in Washington, DC. The conclusions of this book are drawn from the relationship of Arlene McKinney and Mr. St. Clair and the Action Paying Forward.
Finally, the character of Eugene Simonet (whose real name is Ruben St Clair) is an African-American in this novel; However, in the film he is portrayed by Kevin Spacey.
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