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Term Paper Title	Of Mice And Men
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Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men: Movie Vs. Book

The movie 1992 movie version of Of Mice and Men shows differences along with
similarities to the book written by John Steinbeck. Differences were common
mainly within the plot of the story. The first notable variation was in the
beginning. The book started off with George and Lennie walking on a dirt road
near a swamp while the movie started off with George on a train with a
flashback. This shows how the movie differs by starting off in a different time
frame than the book. Another case in point of a small but noticeable plot change
was when Lennie kills the puppy. The book states that Lennie is sitting on the
ground of the barn crying with the puppy lying in front of him. On the contrary,
the movie shows Lennie standing up with the puppy in his hands pacing back and
forth while worried yet not crying. Hence, the movie provides a different
picture for the viewer than Steinbeck gives for the reader. In the last
instance, which possibly shows the greatest contradiction between the two, is
the ending. The novel illustrates the ranch workers coming and finding that
George had just killed Lennie. Slim tries to comfort George while they move away
from the scene as Carlton says “Now what do ya ‘spose is eatn’ them two?”
In sharp contrast to this, the movie ends with George on a train once again,
possibly to make it a traditional denouement, and visualizing him working on the
ranch with Lennie walking off into the sunset. Indeed, two completely dissimilar
endings plot wise. Along with those differences there are aspects in the movie
that ...

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