Chris Pine, a famous American actor, once said, “The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation, but you have a choice about how you view it.” John Steinbeck’s 1937 novel and Gary Sinise’s 1992 MGM film adaptation, Of Mice and Men, both illustrate a story about two companions in the Great Depression named George Milton and Lennie Small. They travel together to Soledad, looking for jobs to make money and achieve their dream of owning their own piece of land. Often times, when a movie is based off of a book, people tend to compare which one is superior to the other. For instance, many prefer the book to the MGM film adaptation. The book allows readers to more easily visualize …show more content…
.an’ me. Ever’body gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from ’em’” (Steinbeck 106). Along with his other words, George shows slight hesitation before he includes himself in Lennie’s future, just saying what he thinks Lennie will want to hear. George sympathetically plants content, yet hopeful, thoughts of their shared dream in Lennie’s mind, once and for all, so that he will die happy. Even though he is suffering in the inside, knowing he has to murder his one best friend, George pulls through to sound strong and confident for Lennie in his final minutes. George’s compassion for Lennie demonstrates their beloved friendship. Overall, George’s actions in Steinbeck’s novel paints George and Lennie’s unparalleled friendship more effectively when compared to the film adaptation.
Moreover, being able to read about the discrimination that occurs in the novel is unbelievably eye-opening for readers, since the events involving discrimination teach readers how certain individuals were seen through others’ eyes. For instance, readers can detect the sexism displayed toward Curley’s wife. The men say she tries to flirt with other men and “‘she got the eye,’” and she “put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward” (Steinbeck 28, 31). The description of Curley’s wife depicts her as a woman trying to show herself off to men, and the men just assume she is trying to flirt to get
In the Of Mice and Men movie and novel the introduction moods and details have multiple similarities and differences. To start there are more details in the beginning of the movie. In the movie we start off seeing two men running away from a lady with a ripped dress and the men chasing them. Compared to the exposition of the novel where we start off with two men who “had walked single file down the path,” (page 2) a few miles south of Soledad. I feel that in the book you had to use your imagination to create more details due to the very discrete opening. Due to the details being very different in the movie compared to the novel, the moods were also much different. When we opened the movie we were greeted by a very ominous and energetic start
In Class we watched two movies based on a book we read called Of Mice and Men. Both of the movies were very similar to the book. In I was able to hear exact lines from the book in the two movies.
Any good person does not want to watch a friend to be hurt, and George is no exception. George is most worried for Lennie when Curley says ‘“i’m gonna shoot the guts outta that big dumb bastard myself, even if i only got one hand.”’ (steinbeck 48). this is when Curley, Slim and Carlson are getting together to find Lennie and hurt him and kill him. George thought
What’s the difference between the book and the movie? Mice and men is a great book but it is a little different in the movie. Believe it or not many very important things happened in the book that did not put in the movie.
The classic novel, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck was made into a Hollywood Blockbuster in 1992. Directed and acted by Gary Sinise and John Malkovich, Hollywood took a stab at trying to recreate this literary success. The novel, which takes place in the 1930’s, follows the lives of two men, George and Lennie, as they try to attain their dream of owning a farm. George is a smart man who always seems to have things figured out. Lennie is massive, but has the mind of a young child. George looks after him, but it is not easy since Lennie always seems to get himself in some kind of trouble. As they struggle towards their dreams, George and Lennie face obstacles that test
After having read the original version and the more recent film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s majorly successful novel, Of Mice and Men, the apparency of differences between the two is at times subtle while also being very obvious during different portions of the movie. In the film there are several major differences between the movie and the book with three being particularly apparent. We are shown the differences through the portrayals of characters, Lennie’s sanity and, simply, the scenes themselves.
Lennie Small and George Milton’s relationship is strong in both the book and the movie Of Mice and Men, but some changes in the movie affected the audience’s views on their bond. In the movie version of Of Mice and Men directed by Gary Sinise, Lennie and George have a stronger bond than they do in the book version by John Steinbeck. The book establishes Lennie and George’s relationship as a friendship, whereas certain changes in the movie make their friendship appear stronger and more brother-like.
Who is George? Well you might know him from the story Of Mice And Men written by John Steinbeck. If you have not read or seen the movie I suggest you do it is a great book. One of the best characters in the book that I think is George Milton. I will be telling you things about him in the next few paragraphs.
After that George and Lennie board a grey hound bus in a town, it is
While mercy and murder do have some similarities there is one huge difference, mercy killing has consent, murder does not. Sometimes it is as clear as day if it is murder or mercy. One of these times was when a twenty nine year old “Brittany Maynard fulfilled her final wish… purposely ending her own life on her own schedule…” (Briggs). This is very different from what happens in Of Mice and Men By: John Steinbeck where George kills Lennie without his consent. In Of Mice and Men George and Lennie are best friends that go on the road with each other looking for jobs. They end up working at a ranch and made some friends and some enemies. Throughout this story it is shown that Lennie is mentally disabled and is obsessed with petting soft objects,
The movie, “Of Mice and Men” portrays the harsh life of migrant farm workers in the 1930s. Directed and produced by Gary Sinise, it is a heartwarming movie starring John Malkovich (Lennie), Gary Sinise (George) and more. The movie, based off the popular and once infamous novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, talks about the working class in the 1930s when the stock market crashed. Overall, the movie depicts aspects of the lower class realistically, and how the two men, George and Lennie, go on their lives. The setting gives the audience a direct point of view of life in the early 1900s. By watching the movie, the viewers know that the plot is often very troublesome, since the two main characters attract trouble.
Las Vegas can be an escape from stressful life, and a vacation from all the worries and problems that plagues the people of America. Many people come to Vegas seeking untold riches every day, though looking for this American dream can come at an expensive cost. Hunter S. Thompson paid this price the hard way and even then did not achieve the American dream he was searching for. In Thompson’s novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Thompson explains that drugs will change people even turn best friends against each other and those drugs can make any person temporarily satisfied, but will never allow one to fully achieve the happiness that the American dream promises through allusions and symbolism. Hunter S. Thompson was born on July 18, 1937
When Lennie ends up crushing Curley’s hand. The whole scene is when Curley walks into the bunkhouse looking for his wife. He asks Lennie and Lennie doesn't answer so Curley gets mad and already wants to fight Lennie anyway so he starts punching him in the face and Lennie doesn't fight back till George tells him to. So when george finally does tell him to fight back the next punch that Curley threw Lennie ended up catching and he squeezed so tight on his hand it crushed it.
I personally have strong beliefs in change for the better. In the couples of years that I've matured I realized what was going on in the world around me, life has taught me so much. The right and wrongs, the left and rights, and even the ups and downs. Being that there's so much more to look forward to, i'm curious to see where life takes
The novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck is set in America in the 1930’s and it describes the lives of migrant farmers as they go from farm to farm looking for jobs. It also shows the loneliness of the characters and the hard work that they put in. The main characters of the book are Lennie, a man-child, and George, a small man but very powerful character that takes care of Lennie in their journey. Also when they get to the farm they meet the bosses wife who is very lonely and looks for company in the workers. Steinbeck uses characterization to bring his characters to life using various techniques.