essay #4

Brenda Tyson

Essay #4

Cline

April 22, 2012

                                                           “Up in the Air”

            Our world has seen it’s hard times and it shows between books and movies being totally

different. In the book, “Up in the Air by Walter Kirn it’s a story about a businessman named

Ryan Bingham whose life is all about the air world, hotels, different cities and telling people

there fired. His main goal in his life is reaching the 10 million mile flier club only a few people

have done. He gave up things like friends and family to have this goal in life. Firing isn’t the

greatest job in life but he seemed to really enjoy what he did. The book took place when things

were mad in the world where sometimes business didn’t have the money to have people working

for them.

            The book version is more laid back and not really much happened. Being that the book

made way before the movie they made it simple they knew people would read it s being it was

about a man that loved to travel and really wanted that 10 million mile club. You would never

imagian that a guy would love his job as much as this guy that did things he did but in the book

he didn’t see that anything else was more rewarding. The author of the book shows this man that

has really nothing in his life being he never around long to have friends and he never sees his

family.

            The movie is more a more up beat can of story he was still do the air world, hotels,

different cites and telling people they are fired but he was also having a life with two different

women. The director of the movie version of the Up in the Air starring George Clooney is more

of a lively man but showing the effects that the world is facing now. George Clooney actually

had people in his life but when it came to him using his job because the world became more

advanced on how to fire people he was losing the one thing he loved. Not being able to get that

10 million mile mark was really hard on him it’s something he was working really hard for.

            This book and movie where showing the things that happen in the lives when they were

made.  Life was totally different at both times being when the book was made our economy was

bad and people were getting fired those things seem to be happening a lot. Also people take there

jobs more sincerely and don’t let friends and family get in the way of things. With the movie the

director wanted to play in more in what was happening when the movie was made. The man did

have people in this life but he was losing the one thing he loved because the world was becoming

more advanced. That actually found a way to fire people without others actually going there.