In the film Smoke (the adaptation of “Auggie

Wren’s Christmas Story”) Paul tells a story in which weighing smoke is associated to weighing the human soul.  

In

the short story, “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story”, who says the following: “You're

going too fast. You'll never get it if you don't slow down.”

In the short story, “Auggie Wren’s Christmas

Story”, Auggie has a weird, daily ritual: for years, he has been taking pictures

in front of his cigar shop, from the same angle at exactly 8 a.m.  

In the film Smoke (the adaptation of “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story”) what

does Rashid realize about his father, Cyrus?

In the film Smoke (the adaptation of “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story”)

who tells the skier’s tale? “the father is younger than the son now. The boy

has become a man and it turns out that he’s older than his own father”

In the short story, “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story”, what is Auggie’s

hobby?

In the short story, “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story”, Granny Ethel is

In the film Smoke (the adaptation of “Auggie

Wren’s Christmas Story”) the Christmas story is told by Auggie, then retold in

a black-and-white cinematic sequence.   

In the film Smoke (the adaptation of “Auggie

Wren’s Christmas Story”) the narrative thread of Rashid searching for his

father is a new element which was completely missing from the original short

story.

In the comic book adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass, in the first

panels we can observe the following cinematic technique: