However, this one does end in Eric’s demise. In the film, the two have a similar discussion in the cabin. The two had then gone out into the world, ready to face whatever may be coming even if it means the end. He had come close in the book, but Andrew had managed to talk him out of it. In Knock at the Cabin, however, Eric actually does sacrifice himself. This is done out of defiance to everything and serves as a complete rejection of any such deity that would demand that they give more after they had already lost everything. ![]() In the book, following the sudden death of Wen, neither of her parents end up sacrificing themselves. This then leaves Eric and Andrew alone in the cabin as the world continues to collapse. In Knock at the Cabin, it is almost peaceful even as we see the blood pool on his shirt as the camera zooms in closer and closer. In the book, his death was far more gruesome and full of screaming. When Leonard believes that he is unsuccessful in his final plea to the two men, he proceeds to slit his own throat and dies on the back porch with the two of them watching. While this is happening, the two parents make sure to send Wen away to hide so that she could be safe from any further threat and also not have to see any further violence that could happen. In the film, he tries one last time to convince Andrew and Eric to make the sacrifice he believes is necessary to save the world. In the book, he had actually been killed by another member of his group who no longer wanted to continue on with the mission. ![]() ![]() Though the deaths of all his fellow believers came at the hands of another, that is not what happens to Leonard here. From there forward, there are even more differences Knock at the Cabin takes us through. The film does have a similar scuffle that they get into with Leonard (Batista), though this merely ends with them gathered on the back porch as opposed to with Wen dead in the cabin. In the film, Andrew ( Ben Aldridge) and Eric ( Jonathan Groff) are confronted with the same choice of having to sacrifice one of themselves to supposedly save the world - though it is not impacted by the loss of their adopted daughter who died right in front of them. It wasn’t done on purpose, and was instead the result of a gun accidentally going off in a scuffle, though the outcome was still devastating to both of them. This softens the story somewhat as the source material spends an agonizing amount of time with her parents grappling with what they have done and the unimaginable loss they are now faced with. Where the novel culminates in the tragic accidental death of the young Wen, played in Knock at the Cabin by Kristen Cui, that doesn’t happen here.
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