Tim is a film directed by Michael Pate is for a target audience of older adolescents and adults and is about a mentally handicapped twenty-year-old, Tim (Mel Gibson), who works for an older woman, Mary Horton (Piper Laurie), by doing her odd jobs. Mary develops a soft spot for Tim and eventually becomes his primary carer and marries him following his mother’s tragic death. Tim is set in Australia during the late nineteen seventies. Of Mice and Men is a book written by John Steinbeck is for a target audience of older adolescents and adults and is about a scrawny but smart young man, George, and his mentally challenged partner, Lennie. The book is set in California during the Great Depression in the nineteen thirties. George and Lennie are, like a lot of other men were at the time, travelling to find work and chase the great American dream. They have a plan to save up and buy a nice little house where they can have a beautiful garden and keep animals, Lennie particularly wants to look after rabbits. Two similarities between the two scripts are that both the book and the film have an underlying theme of loneliness and looking after Lennie and Tim had …show more content…
One of the advantages for George is that Lennie is strong and will do anything George tells him to do. His strength makes it easier for them to find work as ranch owners want workers who are very physically capable to lift heavy items and work tirelessly. His strength and willingness to obey George also means that if anyone decides to start trouble with him or Lennie, he can count on Lennie to protect him and win any physical fights that may happen. For Mary the advantage to marrying Tim was sex. Mary was in her forties, unmarried and lonely. As a single, working woman she had no sex but when she married Tim she could have it much more often. Marrying Tim also meant she wasn’t as lonely as she had been