Comparing Stienbeck's Of Mice And Men

Lennie and Candy’s dog are parallel. Candy’s dog is old, stinky, it cant take care of itself and he’s useless. Lennie cant take care of himself of others, and when he gets scared he holds on to whatever hes got. Candy’s dog had to be put down, just like Lennie. They were also killed the same way. “If you want me to, I’ll put the old devil out of his misery right now and get it over with. Ain’t nothing left for him. Can’t eat, can’t see, can’t even walk without hurtin’” (48). In this scene Carlson took Candy’s dog out and shot him. Though Candy did not want his dog to be dead, he still went through with it. This is just like when George went to kill Lennie, he didn’t want too but it had to be

“Of Mice and Men,” a novel written by John Steinbeck, and “To a Mouse,” a poem written by Robert Burns, are similar not just by coincidence. Though 152 years apart in age, evidence of the poem’s influence is easily seen in Steinbeck’s work. The most notable influence is the title, of course, which is directly taken from a quote in the poem. Though this instance is quite apparent, the influence doesn’t stop there. “Of Mice and Men” and “To a Mouse” have several similar thematic structures, including characters, plot similarities, and setting.

As George found out about the puppy and Curley’s Wife he immediately ran down to the river. Once he got there he was talking to Lennie and knew he was going to have to shoot him. As he was getting ready to shoot Lennie he pointed it to the back of his head and did it. Lennie’s death is the same as Candy’s dog’s death.

Many scenes seemed to foreshadow the tragic ending of the book. In the first chapter we find that Lennie has mind that is of a young child, and many of his actions are done without much thought. Without George Lennie might not have made it to where the story starts off. Lennie is very much dependent on him. Which foreshadows the ending murder because it most likely wouldn’t have happened if George was there at the time. Another example is George's story of how Lennie grabbed a woman's dress in the past, hinting Lennie would fall into the same type of trouble later at the ranch. The sad events that surround Candy’s senior dog also parallel to George and Lennie's situation. The dog was to Candy as Lennie was to George, a lifetime companion. Both are forced to suffer through the difficult decisions and consequences of their companions

Comparing the ending of the movie and the book, Of Mice and Men, one may notice differences. In the end of the book, George finds Lennie before the other men, although he can hear them coming. George sits and talks with Lennie for a little while until he asks him to remove his hat and shoots him. After, the men show up. Slim shows his sympathy, but then Carlson says “Well what the hell ya suppose is eating them two?” On the contrary, the movie ends with George finding Lennie in silence. He shoots Lennie, but then he is all alone. This makes the ending of the movie more

Candy wanted to shoot his own dog because it's his responsibility. Lennie is George's responsibility to take care of and George feels if anyone is going to kill Lennie it would be him. If someone else brutally slaughters Lennie, then George would be outraged, so George does it himself. Lennie could get scared so George doesn't let him know that it's coming.

He also knew the best way out for Lennie. Referenced to how Lennie is killed, earlier in the book Candy says, “I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog” (Steinbeck 61). After analyzing the quote deeper, one can see this theme runs throughout the book. It is foreshadowed in a way how George will kill Lennie.

At the beginning of the book, Carlson complains on how Candy’s dog smells and how he wanted to put it out of its misery. He thought it would be better if the dog was dead, so he shot the dog with a Luger pistol in the back of its head. “If you was to take him out and shoot him right in the back of the head… why he’d never know what hit him.” (Doc. D) Then, later in the story, Lennie killed Curley’s wife and a his puppy. George decides to shoot Lennie in the back of his head with Carlson’s gun. For, George knew that Lennie would be in more pain if he was alive. This foreshadows the dog and Lennie dying in the same way and the same

This profound adjustment hints on the upcoming misfortune, Lennie's termination. The evidence that the death of Candy's dog and of Lennie are indistinguishable reflections for the way his murder was achieved. George shot him in the back of the head just like the old dog was. Candy said to George, "I ought to of shot that dog myself"(p.61) making George decide to kill Lennie himself to protect him from dying scared and panicked by a stranger. Killing him the way that Carlson did, for his sake, it was for the best so Lennie would feel no

By shooting Lennie, George spares his friend the merciless death that would be delivered by Curley's lynch mob. He also puts to rest his own dream of a perfect, congenial world. George came to the verdict that he should kill Lennie due to his past actions. He learned this when Carlson killed Candy's

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.

The movie Of Mice and Men and the novel Of Mice and Men are very different from each other. Starting off with the incident in weed. In the book, the incident doesn’t happen. It just tells us that Lennie and George are already away from weeds. In the movie, it shows the girl in a ripped red dress running and getting help because Lennie “raped” her and it shows dogs and men on horses chasing Lennie and George.

I could compare this book to "Of Mice and Men." I could compare this book to "Of Mice and Men" because both books describe setting really well. In "Ida B" the seting is described in good detail in the beginning and it is in "Of Mice and Men" to. I think both authors do very well describing the setting in the beggining with great detail. The authors also do well at introducing the main charcters of the books. In "Of Mice and Men" the charcters, George and Lennie, are introduced after the setting is described. In "Ida B" the main charcter, Ida B, is introduced right away on the book. That is how I compare the book "Ida B" to "Of Mice and

Towards the end of the story Lennie accidently kills the wife and runs to hide. George offers to help find Lennie and when he finds Lennie he kills him to prevent him being locked up. The death of Candy’s dog was foreshadowing this event. When they were discussing how to kill Candy’s old dog Carlson said that it would be better to shot him from the back of the head like that it would be less painful for the dog. In the end George killed Lennie by shooting him in the back of the head.

The parallels between Lennie and George’s relationship and the relationship that their workmate, Candy had with his dog reaffirm the power dynamic between George and Lennie. In the novella, Candy must kill his dog because it is old and weak. Candy felt such extreme regret when it came time to kill his dog, that instead of doing