Similarities Between If I Ever Get Out Of Here And Smoke Signals

Lennie starts having a conversation to Crooks, but he keeps babbling about the promises to keep their farm a secret. George is basically the brain of Lennie, without him he'll be in trouble.

Divergent Messages There are many contrasts found in the themes between the film Smoke Signals and the novel If I Ever Get out of Here by Eric Gansworth. The novel’s theme is poverty, while the film shows alcoholism as its theme. In the novel, the main character Lewis shows that he is insecure about where he lives. When Lewis goes to school, he meets a boy named George. Lewis and George become close friends, and the two boys want to hang out.

Rare Relationships There are many key differences revolving around the two main characters' relationships in the novel “If I Ever Get Out of Here” and the film “Smoke Signals”. Lewis and George are the main characters of the novel “If I Ever Get Out of Here” and their relationship differs from Thomas and Victor who are the main characters in the film "Smoke Signals" due to their race,experiences and their friendship. Lewis and George are from two completely different worlds because Lewis is a Native American while George is white and they just recently met and had very differing experiences throughout their lives. While Thomas and Victor are both Native Americans, they have grown up together and experienced many of the same things. Another

Both Junior and Victor encounter racism and hardships on their journeys that eventually lead them to personal growth and understanding about themselves. Unlike Junior who learns to believe in himself and his intelligence, Victor learns to forgive his father and heals emotionally when he realizes that his dad never meant to leave or wanted to leave him and his mother. Despite the plots of these stories having clear and obvious differences, the similarities are undeniable. Overall, through The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Smoke Signals, Sherman Alexie created powerful tales about life on an Indian reservation and the hardships the main characters face. Junior and Thomas parallel one another in several ways such as their appearance and personality, and Rowdy and Victor are also similar in these same ways.

In the novel If I Ever Get Out of Here, George and Lewis’s relationship is quite different from Victor and Thomas’s in the movie Smoke Signals. First, Lewis and George are very similar and like the same thing. On the other hand, Victor and Thomas are nothing alike and enjoy different things. For example, George and Lewis both enjoy listening to The Beatles. Victor and Thomas don't like to do the same thing.

George has everything going for him: Elizabeth, an heir, the Poldark lands, his own church. Meanwhile, Demelza’s brothers, Sam and Drake, take up preaching. After Caroline and Dwight elope, Dwight vanishes.

Victor having a devastating experience by losing his father in this case, he now collects what his father left behind. In addition he had also lost his job at the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Alexie 319) and Thomas who is the tribal story teller that nobody wanted to listen to (Alexie 320). Victor and Thomas weren’t friends in childhood because as a child Victor always think people around him would embarrass him, “Victor closed his eyes in embarrassment"(Alexie 322). In addition, Victor and Thomas had a fight, “When they were fifteen and had long since stopped being friends, Victor and Thomas got into a fight” (Alexie 322). Which makes perfectly good sense they never established a good childhood relationship.

They stick together, through the majority of their problems. Lennie knows that no matter what happens, or how mad George gets at him, George would not leave him. Lennie has put almost all of his trust in George, although many people try to tell him George wouldn’t come back to him. ‘George got up on his knees. “You ain’t gonna leave me, are ya, George?

George and Lennie’s friendship is seen as abnormal and this difference isolates them from the rest of the men working on the ranch. Even when George and Lennie get mad at one another, they never leave each other; they work through the struggles and

Lennie’s Aunt Clara was the guardian. When she passed, she entrusted George into being his

Tradition plays a huge role in the characters’ lives that live on the reservation. Thomas portrays his respect towards traditional Spokane culture by participating in Spokane storytelling. He is always trying to convince Victor to join in on the storytelling, dancing, and ceremonies, but Victor seems uninterested. Compared to Thomas, Victor seems to be quite removed at the beginning of the book. Victor actively makes fun of Thomas and how much he cares about the culture on the reservation. Although Thomas is constantly being made fun of by Victor, he still continues his traditions and still continues to try to convince Victor to join in on the traditions. Towards the end, Victor begins to connect more with

Well for one lennie and george they dont agree to often well they do but its like rare.On the other hand tho you can tell Lennie and George love each other like brothers.In the text it states,¨Guys like us ,guys that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.They got no family.They dont belong no place.¨George said this and Lennie disagrees with him saying they do have a future indeed when he says,¨But not us why because i got you and you got me to look after you.¨Kinda saying they got each other and they got a future together.

At the beginning Lennie and George were not alone they had more than just each other they had a family but then it was time for them to go off and work for there own stuff, and from then on it was just them two together. The reason that George did not go on his own was because Lennie is mentally handicapped and is not capable of

Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories do not wants to hear. Thomas bring a very interesting flavor to the story. He tells many stories to the people, but most people ignore him, because most of his stories are made up. He sees Victor as a brother. Each time something happen between Thomas and Victor like a fight or an argument, Thomas would go back to him and talk to

Throughout the story Victor replays moments in his mind. Times when he and Thomas were best of friends. Times when he loved listening to Thomas' visions about life and stories with hidden lessons. Times when Thomas was there for him and even a time when Thomas helped to save his life. The good memories turn to visions of Victor turning his back on his best friend. Victor is faced with the reality of his cruel actions and choices. Of how he chose to go with the rest of the 'pack' and attack the 'weak' one. Victor recalls being drunk when he was fifteen and beating up Thomas for the fun of it. How all of the other boys on the reservation just stood and watched and how he may have continued beating Thomas