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Comparison Of John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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The classic Of Mice and Men is brought to life with Gary Sinise and John Malkovich. This was an exceedingly exciting and intriguing film. The hook to Of Mice and Men was sort of confusing. At first it showed a man (George) on a train staring at a wall. Then it showed two men (Lennie and George) running to someplace particularly fast. In the same scene a girl is shown running with a red dress on. The red dress was ripped and she looked like she had been crying. Some men started chasing Lennie and George. Somehow George and Lennie jumped into a stream and escaped from the other men. The towns in the movie looked acutely aged and rustic. It looked like a true western and rural part of the United States. The movie was set in old California.When …show more content…

The boss seems to be the uttermost differentiator. He’s a little bigger and seems more mean. The character was portrayed as someone who wanted everything his way. He seemed seriously dominant and seemed to think of himself as superior to the other workers. Curley was a bully and abundantly mean to Lennie and the other workers. He seemed terribly jealous that Lennie was bigger and stronger than him. In general Curley was verbally aggressive. Lennie was able to carry the heavy bags filled with wheat by himself, while the other worker needed to have 2 men doing it. The actor playing Curley did a phenomenal job. He supremely made Curley come to life. Throughout the movie, Curley’s wife was devilishly flirtatious with everyone. She would always try to convince George to sit with her and talk to her. Also, she would do that to Lennie and there was consequences for her actions. Her flirtatious actions lead to her death when she drew Lennie in. Lennie didn’t realize what he was doing and she made it seem like he wasn’t doing anything wrong until she started screaming. That scene was extremely intense and the climax was immensely unique. It had me on the edge of my seat. I couldn’t believe how much of a plot twist it was. After she died a bird flew away in the barn and that could have symbolized something awful will/has

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Sometimes the right thing to is the hardest thing to do, but it will result in a positive outcome. This is a key theme of the book, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Gary Sinise’s film version of this novel effectively conveys this theme throughout the entire story. This is shown throughout the book and film from events such as Lennie’s fight with Curley, Crooks’s conversation with Lennie, and from George eventually shooting Lennie at the end.

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One situation Lennie gets himself into is killing Curley’s wife, Curley gets very mad at Lennie for this and wants to kill him

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This suggests that it would be easy for Curley to be injured by Lennie, considering that Lennie is bigger and stronger than most people on the farm. It even mentions that a little after the start of the book, “But I say he’s a Goddamn good worker. He can put a four hundred pound

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After meeting Curley for the first time George has a horrible feeling about him and goes on to tell Lennie: “‘If he tangle with you, Lennie, we’re gonna get the can. Don’t make no mistake about that. He’s the boss’s son. Look Lennie. You try to keep away from him, will you?’”

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Did you choose California to be the setting of this book because of the toll the Great Depression had on the farms? Chapter 2: My Feeling’s:     In this chapter, I enjoyed how Steinbeck portrayed Slim as being almost the ‘head’ of the ranch. When Slim walks into the room everyone becomes quiet and attentive.

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Curley wants to kill Lennie slowly. In the novel, it said “but Curley’s gonna want to shoot im’” (97). This shows

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Of Mice and Men was a novel written by a man, John Steinbeck, about two friends, Lennie and George,that travel together. Lennie is a little messed up in the head and has the brain of an eight year old; therefore he needs George to take care of him. After a couple days working for someone, Lennie ends up getting them either in trouble or fired which results in them having to find a new job. To be honest, Steinbeck's original novel, Of Mice and Men, had been diminished by the 1992 film version directed by Gary Sinise. Of all the differences, there were a few that were most evident but not in a good way.

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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

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Once Curley finds out about his wife's death he angerly promises the guys that he's going to kill Lennie, saying, "I'm gonna get him. I'm going for my shotgun. I'll kill the big son-of-a-bitch myself. I'll shoot 'im in the guts"(Steinbeck 96). If George wouldn't have stepped in, Curley was going to make sure Lennie died as painfully as possible for the death of his wife.

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To Mice, or Of Men Everyone makes planes, but not all plans workout. Both “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns, and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, have similar topics. The theme of the poem is echoed in OMM very clearly. Steinbeck’s book Of Mice and Men echoes some lines of one of Robert Burns’s poems, To a Mouse.

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