Of Mice and Men is a heartfelt film and book that portrays many differences between the two. The general idea of the film is two friends, Lennie and George, are trying to raise enough money to get their own farm. Because of this, they find work with many other men at a different farm. As they work towards their goal of getting a farm, they meet many new people, such as Slim, Curley, Candy, and many more. Many of the men on their farm are very bitter at heart, such as Curley. When Lennie is talking
Curley’s Wife, George, and Lennie Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck talks about Curley’s Wife, George, and Lennie. (Steinbeck). Curley’s Wife is lonely, and because of this, she causes problems for Lennie. According to Jones, “The girl--Curley's wife--who is to become the inadvertent cause of Lennie's troubles, has made the mistake of marrying the boss's son when what she really wanted was to go to Hollywood and become a movie star. She finds her life devoid of the comfort
Some people say the book, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck is better than the movie, but I say the movie is better because it gives us a better description of the characters. In the movie we were able to see what they looked like. When we read the book we weren't able to visualize how each character would look like. In the movie George was slim and short, but in the book made it out as he was short and fat. In the book I thought Curley's wife would have blonde hair, but in the movie she had black
Steinbeck uses the character of George and Lennie and other character to put across his idea about the relationship in America during that period. Also during 1930s American was prejudiced society, he thought that this prejudice was unfair. He used the character of Crooks to describe how prejudice people were. He did this by describing Crook’s room and how different character treats Crooks. In comparison to that ‘’the boy in striped pyjamas’’ by John Boyne, also deals with the same context of relationship
The reader learns, that living on ranch in the 1930’s we see that Crooks is defined by his colour being black, in a racist time. Steinbeck shows this by the way the other characters talk about him. “Ya see the stable buck’s a nigger.” This shows that to the other ranch workers Crooks is just a black man who works on the ranch. The word ‘nigger’ carries with it hatred and disgust directed toward Black Africans and African Americans. Historically, nigger defined, limited, made fun of, and ridiculed
story continues to appeal to readers. It is definite that the books ‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck and ‘Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl’ are classics that have stood the test of time. Of Mice and Men is definitely a classic because of its universal appeal, valid themes, understandable language, effective characters, and representation of the period in which it was written. Many of the characters in ‘Of Mice and Men’ suffer from desperate isolation and loneliness. George confesses “Guys
United States of America, there has been a vision. A vision that all men had the right to the pursuit of happiness, and that through a man’s own hard work and persistence, he could achieve that happiness. This vision, often coined the American dream, upholds the idea that a man will be made or ruined by his own deeds and actions; a belief eerily similar to a saying of famous English philosopher Edmund Burke, in which he states “All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities
Depression, most men worked on a farm in the hot sunlight all day to provide for their families. Men worked solely to earn money, and did not want anything to do with the other working men on the farms. Consequently, it was very unlikely for two men to be traveling and working together. However, the opposite is true in Of Mice and Men. In Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Lennie, George’s best friend who has always been by his side, is mentally challenged and lacks respect from the other men on the farm,
Kaitlyn Campos Ms. Deninger English Honors 30 October 2015 Of Mice and Men The book Of Mice and Men is about two poor men, Lennie and George, traveling together to find jobs. They live in an era where people are not able to have decent jobs. The men found work on a ranch, where they will find new friends and a few quandaries on their path for their goals. In this time period, many people are forced to leave their dreams behind and face reality. The story plot was held during the Great Depression
English 7Y Steinbeck Comparative Essay The Pearl and Of Mice and Men, both parables by John Steinbeck, are two different books with several similarities. The two books are stories with comparable themes and characters. The Pearl is about an underprivileged man who finds fortune in a pearl and then his greed cheats him out of the fortune. It teaches him a lesson that money isn’t always the key to happiness. In the other novella, Of Mice and Men, two migrant farmers dream of owning land and living a