Books have certain details that are edited out or reshaped in the movie versions. Variations between the book and the movie may seem easy for the readers to find these elements. There are three main differences between the book and the movie Of Mice and Men which include setting locations, characters, and ending scenes. There are many differences to the book but one of the main ones is the setting. There are so many differences to the setting for example in the movie they are out in the fields half of the time and in the book they are in the bunkhouse.
Movies that have a dramatic scene are more attractive to watchers. In Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, the final dramatic scene is where George shoots Lennie in the head. George shoots Lennie to save Lennie from Curley. In the book, when George killed Lennie, is a more open area with greener grasses and taller weeds and bushes.
Hanna Mann 7 October, 2015 Period 3 Inevitable Melancholy Humans and mice have more in common than what society think. The two are so alike that both mice and men share almost 99% of the same genes. In Robert Burns’ poem “To a Mouse” and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men all the characters have a goal. The quote in Robert Burns’ poem, “The best laid schemes of mice and men go aft astray, and leave us naught but pain and sorrow for promised joy” can connect to both stories and how each character wants to strive to achieve their goal.
This dog is his companion. The author and the director both have Candy plead for the dog to live another day; however, the dog is still taken away from Candy. In both the movie and book, Candy moves to find solace in a dream shared by Lennie and George. Once again, Candy faces a loss, the loss of his dream because of Lennie. In both, the book and movie, Candy is angry and yells at the lifeless corpse because the author and director want to show the pain and fear Candy is in.
If your best friend jumped off a bridge would you do it too? A man’s best friend is his dog and in Of Mice and Men, Lennie receives a potential best friend, his puppy. In this story, we see numerous connections between characters, for example, Candy and his old dog, how Slim is a friend to his workers, and Lennie with his puppy. These connections are also similarities. In life, you create a connection with someone and you can gain similarities with them and through this they can potentially have the same fate .
Steinbeck uses symbolism to relate the dog and Candy to Lennie and George. The author states, “At last Candy said softly and hopelessly, “Awright-take ‘im ( 47). Candy has finally accepted the fact that his dog has to die. He can no longer protect the dog from the others and his time has come. This is like Lennie and George because when Lennie kills Curley's wife, George has to accept the fact that Lennie has to die.
The Human Dog Thesis: In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows how friendships are not always equal but are formed from necessity and responsibility through the friendship of George and Lennie when George takes the responsibility of taking care of Lennie and when George took responsibility and gave Lennie an effective reason to follow directions and remember. George was responsible of taking care of Lennie. They became friends because through their relationship they realized how much they need each other. George brings responsibility to the table. George is giving his mentally handicapped friend a future and sacrificing his future to better his friends, “Guys like us, that work on ranches… work up a stake and they go inta town and blow their stake… they don’t got nothin’ to look ahead to… with us it ain’t like that.
“It is never fair to judge a person before you get to know them.” I believe that you should never judge someone before you actually get to know them better. There are many examples of this quote in three different texts. The three examples are “Of Mice and Men,” “Tuesdays with Morrie,” and “Romeo and Juliet.”
An old, lame dog struggles to follow Candy into the bunkhouse. The dog merely appears to accompany Candy, easily being forgotten among Steinbeck’s far more intriguing narrative. However, this initially uninteresting dog does serve a purpose. In his story Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck constantly uses animals and animal imagery to suggest larger ideas, further developing characters. Steinbeck uses Candy’s dog to support his statements about power and moral responsibility by associating the dog to other characters, making his themes more evident.
Steinbeck states in the novel, “You seen what they done to my dog tonight?”(60). An example of Candy telling George and Lennie his problems. Candy still feels upset over his dog death by Carlson. But by using that excuse he got George to agree with him, to let him live in the ranch once they earn enough money. With Candy’s help with George and Lennie’s dream, it is easier and now faster for the three of them to get their ranch.
In the novella, Of Mice and Men, the author John Steinbeck illustrates a ranch in the 1930’s during the great depression where those who fit into mainstream society run the show, and those deemed “outcasts” are rendered useless. Steinbeck depicts characters with setbacks that diminish their value in the eyes of society, and contrasts them to characters that have no difficulties conforming to the norm. Crooks, being a black man isolated by his race, and Candy, a elderly man limited by his age and missing limb are examples of Steinbeck characters that experience hardships because of the differences. The poor treatment of Crooks and Candy by the other characters, and their chronic unhappiness in a place that doesn’t value them, comments on how
Of Mice and Men Everyone has dreams, but do they all have the chance to achieve their dreams? The author, John Steinbeck wrote the book Of Mice and Men. This book shows how all the characters tried their best to achieve their goals and dreams but failed . The three characters that had a big dream, and they couldn’t achieve it and they are Lennie, George, and Crooks. They didn’t get to their dream because of the wrong decisions that they make.
In the novella Of Mice and Men, readers may have been moved by the struggle of a character’s love for another when faced with difficult obstacles. For example, although not ready to, Candy was forced to give up his dog and allow Carlson to shoot and bury him under the pretense that they should put him out of his misery. “For a moment [Candy] continued to stare at the ceiling. Then he rolled slowly over and faced the wall and lay silent,” (Steinbeck 49). Because of Candy’s heartbreak, readers are forced to understand how Candy’s dog was his family.
In the story Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses the dog to represent loneliness of Candy. The men in the bunkhouse where complaining about how bad the dog stunk so Carl said let me do it he won’t even feel a thing. Curly says, “ I had him since he was a pup though”(Steinbeck #44). Steinbeck is trying to show that because the dog has been with Curly all this time he is going to be lonely once Carlson kills him. Curley won’t have a person or a dog to wake up to and talk to or attend to the dog.
Asian education system has become the focus of attention. Many studies indeed have documented that Asian (Asian American) students in general do well in school. They have higher achievement scores, lower dropout rates, and higher college entrance rate compared to all other students from different parts of the world (Peng and Wright 1-2). Even though those students with disadvantages backgrounds from Asian countries with a limited English proficiency and low economic status, perform extremely well through college with high academic achievement. This phenomenon forced teachers and professors to ask themselves why do Asian students have such a great academic performance through college?
