As a cultural movement, the Italian Renaissance affected only a small part of the population. Italy was the most urbanized region of Europe, but three quarters of the people were still rural peasants. For this section of the population, life remained essentially unchanged from the Middle Ages.
Although I enjoyed the book, The Hellbound Heart, the movie version, Hellraiser - with the awesomely cheesy blue and yellow 80's FX - is a bit better and mainly because it was more fully realized.
Pay It Forward- Book vs. Movie. 1  The story of Pay It Forward is about a boy who got an extra credit assignment in his Social class. 2  In the book I read about Mr. Reuben St Clair a social studies teacher. 3  For me the saddest moment in the Pay It Forward story was when Trevor died.  Trevor started the Pay It Forward idea.