Changes: Arnie Cunningham

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Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham is the school nerd in the novel Christine and it's film adaption

Novel:

In the novel Arnie is Myopic and has only one friend Dennis guilder. He notices Christine urges Dennis to go back so he can look at it. After he wants to buy it he hastily writes Roland D Lebay a cheque. After his parents refuse to let him keep the car at the house he is focrced to store it at a Do It Yourself garage run by Will Darnell. Later he restores the car to it's natural beuty but the more time he spends with Christine the more she takes over his mind. Now obsessed with the car his personality changes and he no longer wears his glasses as if his vision has improved greatly and he becomes humourless and arrogant but also assertive and cruel. After Leigh Cabot becomes his girlfriend Arnie gets into a fight with Buddy Repperton which results in repperton being suspended. Later on when Buddy and co trash Christine Arnie is shocked to discover all the hard work he put into restoring the car has been ruined and is determined to resotre her back to normality. Later on he strains his back and starts wearing a back brace and later on Dennis and Arnie have an argument in which he goes against his own friends and in the process is killed in a motorway accident.

Film:

In the film Arnie is played by Keith Gordon and purchases Christine from Roland D Lebay and is forced to keep it at the garage run by Will Darnell. Soon Dennios learns that LeBay's wife died in Christine of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. Later on Arnie falls under Christine's influence and after Buddy and Co trrash her he takes his anger out on Leigh his giorlfriend. After his parents tell him they will buy him a new car he fights verbally and physically with his parents and even goes as far as to strangle his father. He swears revenge on the people who trashed Christine and is determined to repair her but she repairs herself in front of him. Arnie then goes against his friends but is killed after being ejected through the windscreen and being impaled on a hard shard of glass

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-In the novel Arnie is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia Myopic] and has only one friend Dennis guilder. He notices [[Christine (car)|Christine and]] urges Dennis to go back so he can look at it. After he wants to buy it he hastily writes Roland D Lebay a cheque. After his parents refuse to let him keep the car at the house he is focrced to store it at a Do It Yourself garage run by Will Darnell. Later he restores the car to it's natural beuty but the more time he spends with [[Christine (car)|Christine]] the more she takes over his mind. Now obsessed with the car his personality changes and he no longer wears his glasses as if his vision has improved greatly and he becomes humourless and arrogant but also assertive and cruel. After Leigh Cabot becomes his girlfriend Arnie gets into a fight with [[Buddy Repperton]] which results in repperton being suspended. Later on when Buddy and co trash Christine Arnie is shocked to discover all the hard work he put into restoring the car has been ruined and is determined to resotre her back to normality. Later on he strains his back and starts wearing a back brace and later on Dennis and Arnie have an argument in which he goes against his own friends and in the process is killed in a motorway accident.
+In the novel Arnie is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia Myopic] and has only one friend Dennis guilder. He notices [[Christine (car)|Christine ]]urges Dennis to go back so he can look at it. After he wants to buy it he hastily writes Roland D Lebay a cheque. After his parents refuse to let him keep the car at the house he is focrced to store it at a Do It Yourself garage run by Will Darnell. Later he restores the car to it's natural beuty but the more time he spends with [[Christine (car)|Christine]] the more she takes over his mind. Now obsessed with the car his personality changes and he no longer wears his glasses as if his vision has improved greatly and he becomes humourless and arrogant but also assertive and cruel. After Leigh Cabot becomes his girlfriend Arnie gets into a fight with [[Buddy Repperton]] which results in repperton being suspended. Later on when Buddy and co trash Christine Arnie is shocked to discover all the hard work he put into restoring the car has been ruined and is determined to resotre her back to normality. Later on he strains his back and starts wearing a back brace and later on Dennis and Arnie have an argument in which he goes against his own friends and in the process is killed in a motorway accident.
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