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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.
Deo-Dixit, Ameyaa 4/17/2023 Period 5 Ms. Wright Alexander the Cruel What if Alexander had never sold thirty thousand people into slavery? What if he had never crucified two thousand men? How would that have impacted the world today? Alexander III of Macedonia is commonly known as Alexander the Great. For a long time, he has been considered great because he streaked through the ancient world, conquering place after place.
While reading John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, I noticed numerous similarities to Of Mice and Men. The first one being the strong emphasis on the importance of family. In Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie were basically family, seeing as how George never failed to protect Lennie, even when Lennie got into trouble. For instance, when Lennie caused a commotion in Weed, George stuck by him, helping him escape. In The Pearl, Kino struggles to provide for Juana and Coyotito.
“Of Mice and Men” Performance Task I think that it is a good thing that George Killed Lennie because Lennie had been killing people and animals. But I think that John Steinbeck wrote the book “Of Mice and Men” because he wanted to show us/the reader how bad it was then and compare it to how bad we thought/think it is now. If we the reader(s) compare then to now we would see how bad it used to be and we think that our lives are bad but really there not that bad.
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.
Does the story end the way you expected it to? As I was finishing each chapter, I was predicting what the next chapter would be about, my predictions weren't so similar to the book. Although some ideas were not so different but not so alike. In chapter 2, when Curley was snapping at Lennie, I thought Lennie was done for, since Curley was the boss's son. But it wasn't like that, Lennie stayed with his job.
When you read a book then you read another one that is completely different, sometimes you think that those two books are nothing alike. Well I thought the same thing about The Call of the Wild and Of Mice and Men. There were no parallels with these books as far as I could see. Then my teacher told us about the American Dream and I realized that Buck, George, and Lennie had a dream. That’s one of the greatest things about life: trying to achieve your own personal goal or dream--but there is also a good chance that you won’t achieve your dream.
Of Mice and Men Essay Of course money and power is something so great to have, people often get caught up in their own world of making themselves happy that they forget about family and true friends that are much greater than money and power. Money and power comes and goes, while friendship can stay for a lifetime. Money and power is hard to get and even harder to keep it, while friendship is easy to find and easy to keep forever (Compound). Money and power will leave you lonesome and make you somebody you’re not just to please people, while friendship has somebody there to comfort you anytime, make you believe in yourself and bring the good out of you even if that means sacrificing a lot. Friendship is far superior than money and power ever was (simple).
The novel Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, has a very controversial ending between the two main characters. George ends up shooting his best friend Lennie in the back of the head with a pistol. This is controversial because of the repercussions of George killing Lennie. There were only two ways that this situation could have gone, George shooting Lennie in the back of the head or Curley shooting Lennie with a shotgun in the guts. George did the morally correct thing by shooting his best friend Lennie because it was a quick death and the last thing that Lennie felt was happiness.
Of MICE AND MEN is an incredible book showing a dream two men had. Lennie and George work off each other, they are companions in their life dream. With a friendship there always comes complications that grow down the line. George pretty much had to watch over Lennie and his handicapped mental state, making sure he did not get into trouble or kill any thing on accident. No one understood their friendship, but George needed Lennie’s companionship.
No one had suspected the ending of the story and some were surprised by the death of Lennie. Some were even shocked by the person who killed Lennie, George. The novel Of Mice and Men has many tragic and heart-breaking events. The worst one had to be at the very end, the death of Lennie Small. The one and only George Milton killed Lennie with a bullet right through the back of his neck.
Of Mice and Men is a wonderful book explaining how life was like for men who worked in the 1930s. The book goes into deep detail about how the lives of the characters were on the ranch, their personalities, and difficulties that the men faced while trying to accomplish their dreams. Candy was one of the characters working on this farm in the fields as a swamper who is call the “Old Swamper.” He is an old man, who lost his hand while working on the ranch. Therefore, it made it harder for him to find work.
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
Throughout time, society has changed its standards of what is acceptable and by doing so it makes it harder for some people to achieve their dreams. There were different points where certain kinds of people were more accepting than others. In John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, he shows through his characters that who a person was affected how they were seen. The main character’s George Milton and Lennie Small leave their hometown of Weed for their new job on a ranch in order to achieve their dream of getting enough money to settle on their own farm. Lennie is mentally ill and George is the authority figure of the pair.
The essence of humans’ true desires are three simple, alluring words: power, riches and fame. Three words, which put together sound dark, yet enticing. Take that away, and humanity is left with nothing but the company of one another. No heterodoxy exists, and everyone is left contented. This, however, is impossible in reality.
