Comparing John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice And Men'

Americans often try to seek happiness through their success. In Steinbeck’s book Of Mice and Men, and Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby both stories express the characters admiration of achieving the American dream. Both stories explain with example how setting, relationships, and Cause and effect all play a role in the destiny of each character’s American dream.

In Chapter 25, Jack completes actions that are due to him finding Babette’s bottle of the tablet Dylar. Jack takes a tablet out of the bottle and brings it to Winnie, the neurochemist at the university. “What can you tell me about it?” Jack said to Winnie. The reason why Jack decides to bring the single tablet of Dylar to Winnie is because he is eager to know what the tablets actually do to his wife. Whenever Jack tries to confront Babette about the tablets, she always avoids the question and moves onto a different subject, which makes Jack even more eager to find out the reason on why she takes Dylar and constantly avoids the topic. Jack is very motivated to find out what Dylar is and goes out of his way to search for Winnie, who frequently moves her way across

Authors find inspiration from many other sources that include people, places, and other pieces of literature. John Steinbeck, the author of Of Mice and Men, found inspiration from Robert Burns poem To a Mouse, and the two pieces of writing draw multiple similarities between the two. Of Mice & Men shares multiple similarities of the poem To a Mouse in more ways than one due to the characteristics shared between the two main characters from each piece of literature, as well as the relationship of the circumstances that each author puts their protagonists into.

The rabbit was telling the truth he should of just listen to him. but George was trying to put him to rest because he was struggling in life.If he would not killed him they would killed him and Lennie. The rabbit was telling him the true. But if Lennie was still alive the cops would been looking for them because they are not supposed to be there. Lennie trust George because in the past they been together that the only friend that Lennie had. George has always told Lennie if he was in trouble to hide be hind a bush.Also in chapter 1 there was a snake trying to kill a rabbit but now on chapter 6 the rabbit was trying to kill the snake because he wanted to get revenge. When George tells Lenni “Gonna do it soon ...Ever’body gonna be nice to you.

Of Mice and Men is a famous novel by John Steinbeck. He gets his title from another famous poem named To A Mouse by Robert Burns. The poem is about a mouse that has built a nest. The narrator accidentally plows through his nest which, to the mouse, is like a home. In the beginning the narrator is telling the mouse that he shouldn’t run away like that because he would feel like he has to go after him. After that, he tells him that he is sorry that other people have given the mouse a reason to be scared of him. An example of why he should be scared would be the mouse traps we set up to kill them. The mouse has a reason to be scared and the narrator is starting to understand that. In the poem it says, “It’s feeble walls the winds are scattering! And nothing now, to build a

In life you make many sacrifices, for loved ones, friends and the community… Sometimes there are sacrifices that might hurt a lot, but they are made to protect others. George’s choice to shoot Lennie after he had unintentionally killed Curley's wife, had its own personal reason.

Today, many are debating upon whether a certain case is mercy or murder killing, and it is very difficult to decide between the two. This directly relates to the novel Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. In this novel, Lennie and George both strive for getting enough money to own a stake some day. Lennie, huge, mentally disabled, and has invincible strength that he’s not aware of. His best friend, George, is slim, hard-working, and intelligent. They are very lonely because of many struggles they experienced in Soledad, their home. Lennie is completely dependent towards George because he promised Lennie’s Aunt that he would always protect Lennie. Despite their love and compassion, George often gets mad at Lennie which hurts Lennie. When they

Sometimes decisions are like a drug addiction. You know the choice you need to make (quit for crying out loud!) ,but it may be harder than you choose to think. You know you need to quit smoking cigarettes, it’s taking you down a path to life terminating lung cancer. However, you refuse to jump the derailing train, because your need is stronger than your desire to quit. Because Lennie’s time was out and his train was about to go hurtling off the track, George made the right decision to spare Lennie from the suffering that would’ve followed, and I believe that this was the right decision.

Nobody but the reader knows what happened between Lennie and Curley's wife in the barn. George was not there. He only saw the girl's dead body. To everyone it looked like a case of murder in connection with an attempted rape. What actually happened, as we know, was different. Lennie got panicked when Curley's wife started screaming for help. The men were playing horseshoes right outside the barn. He was desperate to make her stop struggling and screaming. It is noteworthy that something similar happened in Weed, but that time George arrived on the scene in time to intervene. The fact is that Lennie's crime was probably more like accidental manslaughter, since there was no intent to commit murder, or to commit rape, for that matter. But he would have no way of defending himself in a court trial because he didn't have the capability of explaining the circumstances, and there was nobody else to tell what actually happened. It looked much worse than it was. If it ever came to a trial--which was highly unlikely--the prosecutor would have to insist that Lennie was trying to rape the girl. It would be hard to establish that he was trying to murder her.

1. Symbolism—choose ONE of the following items…Curley’s boots, Candy’s dog, or Lennie’s puppy…and explain how it serves as a symbol in the story. NO TEXT SUPPORT IS NEEDED.

A) After watching the film “Of mice of men” I think the plot followed the novel very well, the actors did very good and they matched the written version, but there were some changes in the speech, the way the place was describe. Lennie is different to the book because the book says that he’s way too big but in the movie he’s a bit bigger than the other workers. The impact of these changes is the way the readers imagined the actors and the scenes. I think the director made the changes because he noticed that there’re some changes can be done to the book to make the book more enjoyable but he added them to the movie to improve his structure.

The world would never change for you, so you know the importance of finding a best personality that fits you and pleases others. How should a person behave towards others? Mainly, you should know and understand them so that you won’t touch their hot buttons, in general you should act friendly, patiently and positively, and sometimes try to make yourself look tough. The book “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck reflects the present’s characteristics well. The book is about a journey of two men who are two totally different person: Lennis, who is a tall, strong man with a young child's mind, and George is a small smart

Of Mice and Men affected society with the story it conveys. It is written with language and content presenting its time. The story takes place in the 1930’s around the time of the Great Depression. George and Lennie are like any other average American at the time. Their push was to keep looking for ways to have a subtle life like another other desired at the time. Although finding jobs and places to stay was hard enough, Lennie tended to make them have to look for a new job constantly. Lennie was like any other person, he was just a little slower and softer than most.

In the prominent film Of Mice and Men, the director uses it to convey the even better piece of literature. Most of this motion picture is exactly how the book had been written. There are also some minor differences between the two, such as the type of film, the way the characters are portrayed, and a few others.

Of Mice and Men is a novel by John Steinbeck portray the adventurous story about Lennie Small and George Milton. This is an extraordinary book and movie that many people will love and enjoy.