![]() ![]() ![]() In the morning she awoke with Kevin lying asleep beside her. Ilonka slept the remainder of the night wrapped in the warmth of that hope. She only knew that one day she would journey to that star. THE MIDNIGHT CLUB she felt hope staring at his work, yet she did not know why. She stood at his shoulder as he worked, as if she were his personal muse, and In that light she saw Herme the angel painting a blue-white star that shone in a starry heaven. Her mixed collage of the past brightened and cast a ray over her future. In any case, she felt relief as she pulled Kevin closer. Yet it was possible there was a connection between what had been and what now was. It was not a blade that hurt her, however, but her cancer. Ilonka stirred uneasily in her sleep and instinctively reached out for Kevin's arms, experiencing a repeat of the episode with the wizard as she felt a stab of pain in her lower abdomen. Her dreams, her nightmares, her visions-all wrapped together. Those were the last words she heard before she died. ![]()
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Will’s sister Georgina is cut out of the story. Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke on the set of Me Before You (2016)ġ. While Me Before You was mostly faithful to the novel, there are a few changes that had to be made in order to bring Lou and Will to the silver screen. Film and print are two mediums with many large, inherent differences – for a story to go from one to the other, it must adapt. But other changes, although insignificant at first glance, had resounding effects on the plot and on the story’s message.įans of Me Before You(2016) were overjoyed that the film adaptation was penned by Jojo Moyes, author of the original novel, but that doesn’t mean that everything about the story stayed the same. ![]() ![]() Most of the changes that were made during the transition were minor. 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