Gene Shepard’s In God We Trust, All others pay cash vs. The Christmas Story The book, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, is a summary of childhood experiences told by the author when he was a middle aged man when he was visiting his hometown again. The book contained two different periods of his childhood. The familiar movie, The Christmas Story, was based on the revisited elementary years rather than the teenage …showed first 75 words of 755 total…

…showed last 75 words of 755 total…Chinese restaurant. Although quite a bit different, the movie really does keep the essence of the book. It did organize the thoughts into what would make a better flowing story. It made the feeling of a child’s disparity toward wanting the perfect Christmas gift apparent and was the focus of the movie. Both formats are equally enjoyable, but thanks to some of the changes made in the movie, it has become a Christmas classic.