In the book, when Gorge finds out that Lennie is carrying a dead mouse with him, George takes it and throws it across the irrigation ditch. Unlike the movie, the novel starts out with George and Lennie at the camp site. It is also way for peaceful in the novel than in the movie. In the novel, the author shares with us that Slim has a thing for Curley’s Wife. Also in the novel, when Lennie flees from the ranch to the camp site to hide, he hallucinates by talking to Aunt
After successfully escaping Weed they find a running train and stowaway on it to their destination. The direct beginning of the movie is noticeably different then the beginning of the book. In the direct beginning of the book George and Lennie calmly walk down a path to a new ranch, which they want to work at. In the movie
The next night, when most of the men head to the local whorehouse. Lennie is left with Crooks, the Negro stable buck, and Candy. Curley's wife came to the barn saying that she was looking for Curley, but she actually came to talk to the men and find some company and refuse to leave until the other men come home. She notices the cuts on Lennie's face and suspects that he, and not a chunk of machinery like Curley told her, is responsible for hurting her husband. The successive day, Lennie accidentally kills his puppy in the barn, and Curley's wife came to see Lennie because she knew she could get company from Lennie while the others were outside.
As well another example is, when in the book George is talking about how Lennie got him in trouble in Weed, but the movie shows this as a flashback scene. Some happenings got shifted around or even left out. An example is in the beginning where Lennie gets the mouse taken of George. In the book the mouse is thrown back, but in the movie the topic is brought up when George and Lennie have to stay overnight at the Lake. In the end of the book Lennie is hallucinating about his stepmother aunt Clara and a big giant rabid.
After Candy has brought George to the barn to show him Curley’s wife, George leaves and Candy cries. What is the true source of Candy’s sadness and why? Compare the killing of Curley’s wife to the night Candy’s old dog was shot and killed by Carlson. 2. Death is the beginning and the culminating event in the chapter, but the killing of Curley’s wife is regarded with a lack of emotion by the characters, even less than the killing of the puppy or the shooting of Candy’s dog earlier in the book.
As per the book, we only find out why he got arrested in chapter 6 , in the movie we see it at the beginning. The police went to Stanley’s house but not in the book. In the book Stanley s father wants to find a way to recycle sneakers and he accidently created Sploosh in the movie he was looking for a way to get rid of foot odor. The foot odor remedy was done with peaches in the movie it was with peaches and onions. In the book Sam and Kate are caught kissing outside the school, Hattie Parker is the one that sees them, in the movie they are seen kissing in the school by Trout as he rides his horse.
What Comes of Handling Snake-skin (pg 52) Jim told Huck that touching snake skin causes bad luck and Huck decides to trick Jim with a dead rattlesnake but ends up causing Jim a snake bite that takes “four days and nights” to heal. As the story goes on, Jim has repeatedly proved himself to be correct in Huck’s eyes, even thought Huck refuses to acknowledge it. XI. They’re After Us! (pg 52) Huck disguises himself as a girl to “slip over the river and find out what was going on” and he went to a lady who immediately found out that Huck was a boy
In the novel 'of Mice and Men' written by John Steinbeck, one of the protagonist who names George travels with his friend Lennie, they find a new job in the ranch and try to adapt themselves to new circumstance. During this time, they meet an old swamper whose name is Candy. Generally, Candy and George are different because they have different backgrounds, and they are similar because they have the same wishes about their futures. To start with, the reason why George chooses to come and work on the ranch is that Lennie and George have no choice but to leave their hometown. In the novel, George and his friend Lennie worked in their hometown-- Weed.
Wig-Wearing ‘Bad Hair Bandit’ Was Prison Nurse, Officials in Idaho Say She had a penchant for clumsy wigs, traveled with her cat and worked as a prison nurse in Idaho — when she was not crisscrossing the Pacific Northwest robbing banks. But after a string of successful hits on at least 19 banks in four states, Cynthia Van Holland — who law enforcement officers believe is the suspect known as the Bad Hair Bandit — ran into bad luck. An alert witness saw her running to a car after the robbery of a Bank of the West branch office in Auburn, Calif., on Monday and noted the license number. Shortly afterward, Placer County sheriff’s deputies arrested Ms. Van Holland, 47, and the driver of the silver Sebring, her husband, Christopher Alonzo, 26. A cat was found in the back seat of the car with “a litter box, toys and all the things a cat would need,” said Dena Erwin, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s department.
One very noticeable difference is the main idea of each. In the short story, it is very straightforward and tends to get to the point very quickly, without giving much information about anything except the preparation for the lottery. The movie, however, starts with Jason receiving a call saying his father is dying, and his father's last wish was for his ashes to be put on Jason's mothers' grave. The only problem was that he did not know where his mother died, or how. Which creates the entire plot of the movie, Jason figuring out how his mother died and the controversy over him placing his father's ashes on his mothers grave.