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Similarities Between Of Mice And Men And Slumdog Millionaire

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Poverty, intellectual disadvantages, and society render characters in both texts powerless which potentially prevent them from fulfilling a dream or self-development. In the novel Of Mice and Men and film Slumdog Millionaire, the characters were powerless financially, due to poverty, which was an obstacle in Lennie and George's dream/development in Of Mice and Men as well as Jamal's in Slumdog Millionaire. In Of Mice and Men, the characters were subjected to poverty due to the Great Depression in America beginning in the 1930's, thus relinquishing any form of financial amelioration. The ranch hands are all victims of society and the possibility of economic growth was diminutive due to poverty. Particularly Lennie and George, however, they …show more content…

They were victims of society, like the ranch hands in Of Mice and Men. The leaders of the camp would take most, if not all, of the money they earned which meant no chance of economic growth whatsoever while they were there. At this camp, one of Jamal's dreams was introduced- to have his own house with his friend Latika and his brother Salim which again relates to the dream portrayed in Of Mice and Men- "[...] And then we might be in for money" "then we can we stop begging?" "Are you kidding? We'll live in a big house on Harbour Road. " (Boyle). This represents the dream for development, but the inability to do so because of their economic position being poor orphans, making them helpless. The camp was horrific for the children, as some would have acid poured into their eyes since "blind singers earn double" (Boyle.) Due to this, Jamal and Salim escaped, but Latika was left behind. This incident marked the beginning of Jamal's ultimate dream, to re-unite with his long-lost love Latika. This triggered him to go on …show more content…

In Of Mice and Men, none of the characters seem to speak with a particularly enhanced lexicon, keeping in mind their lack of opportunity to education. However, Lennie exerts a different type of intellectual powerlessness. He is a mentally-challenged character who has a mind equivalent to a child's or is "jes like a kid," (Steinbeck, p. 43) as George says. The only power Lennie is described to possess, is physical. His inability to control his actions and diminished cognitive senses due to his disability render him powerless. As mentioned before, Lennie and George share a dream to own their own ranch together. Though, Lennie is particularly motivated by the rabbits, which serves as his vital concern. Everything he says and does revolves around those rabbits, even his morality. "George gonna say I done a bad thing. He ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits." (Steinbeck, p.__). George refuses to do anything deemed "bad," if losing his rabbits is a risk. However, due to his intellectual disadvantage, he has trouble achieving this dream since he has a "tendency" to cause trouble inadvertently. This tendency caused Lennie to accidentally kill Curley's wife which then lead to his sympathized death. This meant that could get neither his rabbits, or the ranch which was all he ever wanted with George. Being so

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On page 13 John Steinbeck writes “Lennie pleaded “come on tell me----like you done before”... “You get a kick out of that, don’t you? Awright, I’ll tell you then we’ll eat our supper…” This shows how George was asked to tell Lennie about the rabbits and he

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Then, he hallucinated his Aunt Clara who died and imagined her saying she is the one that caused George a hard life. Lennie was trying to say he tried and tried and now he couldn’t tend no rabbits. Following the hallucination of his Aunt Clara, there appeared a giant rabbit that was capable of talking. The giant rabbit put Lennie down by speaking bad about George hurting him, leaving him, and he has no chance of tending rabbits.

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George and Lennie have always dreamed about "Living off the fat of the land" this was inspiring to George and Lennie because they didn't want to be stuck working on other employers farms for their whole life. George and Lennie were going to have a little house with a neat fireplace, they would have a milking cow and when they milked it the cream would be so thick they could cut it just like butter. They would have a little garden, and five acres of land to live on, and when they didn't want to work they wouldn't. The most meaningful part of all of this was the rabbits, at least to Lennie, he would take care the rabbits and bring in alfalfa from the field to feed and nurture them. This dream was demolished when Lennie murdered Curley's wife.

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Lennie had always wanted to live on his own ranch and have many animals. When George was telling his made up story about their future, Lennie asked George to tell him “how [he gets] to tend the rabbits.” (Page 14) The quote shows that Lennie wanted to care for rabbits. Lennie tried to care for other living things, but he was unintentionally rough.

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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

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To earn enough money to buy their own farm and keep rabbits for Lennie to play with, they find work at a ranch in Soledad, California. George was concerned since he didn't want people to be on Lennie’s case. He claims that he watches out for Lennie because he had been kicked in the head by a horse when he was

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The book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck had a particularly interesting set of characters, most interesting because one main character’s personality, George, developed throughout the story. It is clear that the character who didn’t develop through the story, Lennie, had some sort of mental disability, though it isn’t stated, possibly because it didn’t take place in modern times and diagnosing might have been more difficult. As the story progressed, more characters were introduced, one of the first being Aunt Clara. Other characters included ‘the boss’, Curley, Slim, Carlson, Candy, Curley’s Wife, and Crooks.

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Go on, George! Tell about what we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it.” (Steinbeck 14) Lennie, who is a big man; that does not know his own strength, wants to be on a farm with his companion, George. He wants the farm to have different things such as a garden, pigs, cows and most of all rabbits. He likes rabbits because they are soft, so he can pet them, but big enough to not get hurt when he pets them.

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