I just reread the book, I read it after I saw the film about two times and I didn't much like it, so different from the film.
But now that I know the film so well, I went back and I now truly love the story too.
Anyway I would have surely liked to hear 'this ain't no little think that's happinen here' in the film.
But I really love the last sentence of the story 'There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe......."
I wish that was clearly shown in the film somehow, or turned into a line that was said. To me the line isn't just about how Jack died, but in fact about almost everything between them.