Of Mice and Men Blog 4

When watching the movie Of Mice and Men it was somewhat different from the book. In the beginning their transportation to the new job they were going to be starting was taken by train. Once they were on the train they had to catch a bus and once they were where they needed to be they were told to get off and walk a few miles up the way to where they were headed. They spent the night under a tree next to a river and the next day they walked to start their new job. When arriving at their job they were approached by an aggressive dog and Candy and his personal dog. Also in the movie before approching people George never told Lennie not to speak so therefor Lennie spoke. George also told his boss that Lennie was his cousin. When George and Lennie got settled into where they would both be spending their nights they were never told not to speak to the bosses son Curly's wife. A little bit into the movie Lennie walkes into the black mans room and keeps his guard up. The black guy didn't try and kick Lennie out but told him what bad things would happen to George so Lennie suddenly became protective towards George. Curly got upset Curly's at his wife for doing things she had no business so she came outside crying to George and Lennie. When Curly's wife were alone in the barn Lennie kept attempting to kiss her. When Lennie ran away and the men were after him he hid in the bushes and when George found him thoughts of Aunt Clara and the rabbit weren't going through his head before he died. Before George shot Lennie in the back of the head he never once heard any sounds of the men near by or approaching.

Dear George

Dear George,
I think what you did was the best way things could have been done. Lennie was going to end up dying one way or another and by you shooting him helped end his misery and the misery you had been in always sticking up for him and sticking by his side. " You ... an' me. Ever'body gonna be nice to you. Ain't gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from 'em." You told Lennie that because only you knew what was best for him and you knew Lennie was going to be in a better place where no one hurt or called him out of his name. You wanted what was best for him and that was to be dead.

I also think it was great how you ended things for Lennie. Instead of his last thoughts and moments of you being mad him you made it a time of nothing but complete happiness. " Go on, " said Lennie. George raised the gun and his hand shook, and he dropped his hand to the ground again. " Go on, " said Lennie. "How's it gonna be. We gonna get a little place. " We'll have a cow, " said George. " An' we'll have maybe a pig an' chickens ... an' down the flat we'll have a ... little piece alfalfa." It's great how you told him the little story you always told him when things went wrong because it only made him feel better about things. Things could have went differently like you yelling at him and then killing him but you always wanted the best for him so I think what you did was the best way things coud have ended.

Love,
Denisha Marie

Of Mice and Men Part 2

Lennie seems afraid to stay at his new job because he's afraid that he will get hurt or tourmented by Curly. George told Lennie to stay away from Curly in order for him to keep the job and get the money they desperately need. He also wants to leave because he thinks he will get in trouble for bothering or touching Curly's wife. "Well, you keep away from her, ' cause she's a rattrap if I ever seen one. You let Curly take the rap. He let himself in for it. Glove fulla vaseline, " and from hearing those words from George I personally think made him a little frightened. " Ya know, Lennie, I'm scared I'm gonna tangle with that bastard myself. I hate his guts. Jesus Christ! Come on. They won't be a damn thing left to eat." George is trying to help Lennie understand that he doesn't want to be at his that job no more than Lennie does. He's trying to tell Lennie not to be afraid of Curly but just to ignore and stay far away as possible so nothing at all goes wrong. george hates Lennie and if anything were to be said negatively to him from Curly I think he would go ballistic.