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Nick Hornby High Fidelity Analysis

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Since books and movies are made for diffenrent audiences and tell the stoy in different ways the movie adaptation of a book always leaves out or changes parts of the story in the book. In the Jackie Allen part of the then chapter of the book “High Fidelity” by Nick Hornby the story of Rob's third girlfriend on his desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups,in chronologigal order list is told. Jackie Allen was Rob's friend's Phil girlfriend who Rob pinched off of. Rob tells about how they met and how he pinched her off of Phil over the period of several month. During that time they met in secret. After that Jackie split up with Phil and the relationship between her and Rob looked successful but it was not because they broke …show more content…

It tells about the evening when of Rob's dj comeback at the club where he used to djay when Laura and he met. The atmosphere is excited and the people are having fun. Barry's band is playing because Laura invited them to. During their performance the crowd is excited and dances to the music that is played. After the performance Rob has to admit that Barry's band is not as bad as he thought in the first place and actually pretty good. At the end he plays Laura's favourite song. Then he concludes that he thinks he now sort of knows how to put together a mixtape with the music the is going to or already likes for …show more content…

Laura is the person who reassures Rob and shows him that he is able to commit to something. She also has the function of showing that it is possible to solve the problems you have with someone and get along with them afterwards. Barry and his band teach Rob a lesson about his prejudices about Barry's music and certain types of music in general. The crowd at the club pictures how people change when they get older but never lose the ability to have fun at a party and get excited about the music they

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