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Differences Between Of Mice And Men Movie And Book

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Although the plot has the same ending in both the book and the movies, the actual ending moments of each pieces of them are different in several ways. The movie ends with a flashback but the book ends with a dialogue and a line. Of Mice and Men ends with the death of Lennie by his best friend, George. The author built up towards it with several things lennie and george did for a tragic end since the beginning of the story.Like Lennie's trouble in Weed, his petting of the dead mouse, and his killing of the puppy have kind of shown flashes of his killing of Curley's wife.The flashback shows that George didn't kill Lennie because he wanted to. He shot him out of love and for what was better for the both of them. He wanted to be the one to do it instead of …show more content…

He wasn't happy, but he wasn't as mad as a normal person would be though. George was sad, but he didn't shoot him out of his sadness either it seems. The flashback shows strong, feelings and emotions. George killed Lennie, and then we watch them walking away as friends at a point before the death of lennie, when they were both happy. It reminds us that they were best friends, and one just shot the other in the back of the head. The feeling doesn't match the end of the book. They are both sad endings, but the movie has a different feeling of showing the sad feeling. The book has a good build up and then a type of climax when he shoots him. But in the movie, it was just kind of shocking, and it was a quick change from about what was going to happen, to sadness and regret. The movie also had just George and Lennie at the end. No one else showed up with them. If Carlson, Curley, Slim, and the others. would have showed up, it would have felt different and gave it a different vibe. It was just them two, and I think that that's how it should be. The line of dialogue at the end of the book, ends the book with more meaning than most people might think. The line is,"Now what the hell ya suppose

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George was not a stranger to Lennie, he was actually his best friend. Both traveled together and George was sort of Lennie’s keeper. George was asked this by slim and he answered “Sure, We kinda look after each other” George said (Steinbeck 34). This means that when George killed Lennie it was in passion and out of sympathy for Lennie.

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When George shot Lennie he made a better future for himself not having Lennie screwing up his jobs. With both the times of George messing up it has made it hard on Lennie to for himself and Lennie. Since lennie won’t be with George anymore he can keep a job. After a while George and Candy could maybe even gather enough money to get a little house. Also when George killed Lennie he took away any suspicion that was against him for the death of Curley’s wife.

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In the book of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck we are arguing whether or not that George killing Lennie was a good idea. I think that George made the right choice when choosing to kill Lennie because Curley would have hurt Lennie worse, Lennie was happy when he died and he would not have been if Curley killed him, and Lennie would have done more bad things if he wasn’t stopped. Curley would have hurt Lennie worse because he was still mad about his hand so Lennie would have been sad and he would have suffered. Curley said “I’ll kill him, I’ll shoot him in the guts. ”(Steinbeck 48)

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George makes the correct decision in shooting Lennie because Lennie is happy when he dies instead of being afraid and in pain as he would be if he had died another way. George has to kill or turn in Lennie because Lennie committed murder and George has the responsibility to deal with him. George deserves freedom from Lennie’s mistakes and by killing Lennie, he receives that liberty. Lennie is not a bad person. He has a good heart and does not mean to do the bad things he does.

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While in the movie it sets a different tone by Lennie and George barely talking. The movie makes George look like he doesn’t care for Lennie anymore. The movie changes the whole tone of the story. While the book showed what he did he thought about long and hard, with his

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Even though shooting Lennie wasn’t planned I think George knew it was going to have to be done sometime in the future because, Lennie ruins all of George 's chances of keeping a steady job. With all of George

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Justified Death Of Mice and Men was an inspiring book about a couple of men just trying to get by in the Great Depression. George and Lennie had known each other for a very long time and had grown to depend on each other. The most controversial topic from this book was why George killed Lennie. It was the right thing to do for multiple reasons. One of the many reasons for george to kill George is that Lennie was a danger to those around him as well as himself.

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Lord have Mercy on Your Soul “Nonetheless, many [people] still live in fear that they'll have no control over pain and suffering in the face of death” (Lynch). This exemplified John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Lennie, who has a mental disability, is mercy killed by his partner and friend, George. George took it upon himself to take Lennie’s life, and he did it out of a sense of companionship and friendship to spare him from what Curley might have forced upon Lennie. George decided to end his best friend’s life in order to prevent him from being tortured, and this is because he killed Curley’s wife.

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The book Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck and directed by Gary Sinise, has a parallel theme to the movie remake. In both versions, the main theme is the main characters trying to reach the American Dream, but failing due to the harsh reality that dreams are only dreams. George and Lennie are trying to reach this "dream" by working on a ranch to save up money, and ultimately buy a plot of land of their own. George describes to Lennie “O.K. Someday—we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and-

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Have you ever thought of killing your best friend? No, no one does, that person is supposed to be your everything. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, a main character gets killed by his best friend. George had no reason to kill Lennie. Lennie did not mean to kill them on purpose.

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George's justification for shooting Lennie is to keep him from experiencing the pain that will follow the consequences of his actions. Lennie is going to be lynched, seemingly beaten up, furthermore Curley is going to kill Lennie. George also perceives that even if they were to escape, it would be just a matter of time before Lennie has another "accident" and kills someone else. George knows he can't protect Lennie from society, as he also cannot protect society from Lennie. Killing Lennie before he is caught is the only kind thing to do.

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The main reason George killed Lennie is because Lennie would have killed somebody again. And the evidence is clearly there, the pet mice that he killed, the poor puppy that he accidently hit to hard, and especially Curley’s wife. He almost killed the girl in weed if he had gone any further. The sad thing is is that he doesn't know how strong he really is, nor does he know what he’s done wrong in the first place.

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It does not directly state that George is doing this in order to end Lennies suffering like with Candy’s dog, it is implied that George shoots Lennie to end his suffering and to make his death

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