How does jaws die in the book

A local fisherman, Ben Gardner, is sent to kill the shark but disappears on the water. Brody and deputy Leonard Hendricks find Gardner's boat anchored off-shore, empty, with large bite marks in the side.

Hendricks pulls a massive shark's tooth from one of the holes. Blaming himself for these deaths, Brody again moves to close the beaches and has Meadows investigate thhan is in business with to find out why the Mayor is so determined to keep the beaches open. Meadows uncovers his links to members of the Mafia, who are pressuring Vaughan to keep them open in order to protect the value of Amity's real estate, into which they had recently invested a great deal of money.

Meadows also brings in ichthyologist Matt Hooper from the Woods Hole Institute to advise them on how to deal with the shark. Meanwhile, Brody's wife Ellen misses the affluent life she left when she married Brody and had children. She strikes up a friendship with Hooper, especially after learning that he is the younger brother of a man she dated years before. The two have a brief affair in a motel outside of town.

Throughout the rest of the novel, Brody suspects they have had a liaison and is haunted by the thought. With the beaches still open, people pour to the town, hoping to catch a glimpse of the killer shark. Brody sets up patrols to watch for the fish. After a boy narrowly escapes being attacked by the shark close to the shore, Brody closes the beaches and hires Quint, a professional shark hunter, to kill the fish.

Brody, Quint, and Hooper set out on Quint's vessel, the Orca. Hooper is angered by Quint's methods, which include disemboweling a blue shark they catch and his use of an illegally fished unborn dolphin for bait.

Quint taunts Hooper for refusing to shoot at beer cans with them. Brody and Hooper bicker as Brody's suspicions about Hooper's possible affair with Ellen grow stronger. At one point, Brody unsuccessfully attempts to strangle Hooper on the deck. Their first two days at sea are unproductive, and they return to port each night. On the third day, Hooper reveals to Brody and Quint a shark proof cage. Initially Quint refuses to allow the cage on the boat, considering it a suicidal idea, but he relents when Hooper offers him a hundred dollars.

On the ocean, after several unsuccessful attempts by Quint to harpoon the shark, Hooper goes underwater in the cage to attempt to kill it with a bang stick. He is so taken with the shark that he resolves to first take photos, before making his attempt to kill it. The shark, however, attacks the cage, and, after ramming the bars apart, kills and eats Hooper.

Larry Vaughan arrives at the Brody house before Brody returns home and informs Ellen that he and his wife are leaving Amity. Before he leaves, he reveals to Ellen that he always thought they would have made a great couple. When Brody and Quint return the following day, the shark repeatedly rams into the boat, but Quint is able harpoon it three times. The shark then leaps onto the stern of the Orca, and the boat starts sinking. Quint plunges another harpoon into it, but as it falls back into the water, his foot gets entangled in the rope, and when the shark drags him under, he drowns to his death.

Now floating on a seat cushion, Brody spots the shark swimming towards him and shuts his eyes, preparing for death. The novel was an instant success upon its release, with film producers purchasing the rights before it was even published. Though the Jaws movie clearly became an instant classic, it did omit virtually all of the subplots present in its source material. Instead of telling some of the side stories Benchley included in the novel—an affair and a mob story among them—the book focuses almost solely on the three main characters and their quest to hunt the great white shark.

The movie also changed some smaller details, like aspects of certain characters and the fact that the men stay out at sea for days on end, rather than coming home each night as they do in the book.

Plus, the ending is entirely different; in fact, Benchley took issue with this and got thrown off set for arguing with Spielberg about his changes. In the book version of Jaws , Brody is described as a tough character who used to live in New York City.

He even becomes violent during altercations with other characters. He has a more subtle, gentle presence in the movie—he's not just a sheriff who gets things done, he's a caring dad and doting husband. He's also portrayed as fearful and cautious as he sets out to sea with Hooper and Quint. In the movie, Mayor Vaughn acts foolishly, opening up the beaches to the public despite the presence of a great white shark in the waters.

Viewers grow infuriated with his insistence on keeping the beaches open to make money from locals and tourists— why would he risk it? It's clear that the mayor simply wants the town make money, and doesn't want local businesses and hotels to suffer.

The book makes the reasoning behind his decisions more clear—he's tied to the mob. Local newspaper editor Harry Meadows is the one who discovers that Vaughn has connections to the Mafia. It turns out that the Mafia is pressuring the mayor to keep the beaches open, so that the value of Amity's real estate, in which the Mafia has invested a great deal of money, remains protected.

The relevance of this supporting character in the book is significantly diminished in the screen version. Newspaper man Harry Meadows has a much bigger role, hushing up the shark attack, uncovering Mayor Vaughn's underworld connections and hiring Ichthyologist Matt Hooper. Quint shoots beer cans on deck using a makeshift skeet launcher — taunts Hooper for not joining in. Quint is killed by drowning: he is dragged under water after harpooning the shark and his foot gets caught in the rope.

Quint, who was unforgettably portrayed by Robert Shaw, is described much differently and barely speaks at all. Suffice to say, his speech about being on board the USS Indianapolis when it sank is not in the book. As for Hooper, who survived his ordeal in the shark cage in the Spielberg movie, he is killed off in the book as well. Perhaps it is karmic justice as Benchley portrays him as an obnoxious man who Martin almost chokes to death at one point.

Another subplot which did not carry over from the book is when Mayor Vaughn is found to be seriously in debt to the mafia, hence his strong need to keep the beaches of Amity open despite the shark attack. In the book, he is helplessly stuck in the water after the Orca sinks, and the shark heads straight for him. In the process of Brody accepting his fate, the shark ends up passing away just mere inches away from him. After battling these men for several days while having barrels stuck in it and suffering from blood loss, the shark just gives in and dies which makes for a rather anti-climactic ending.