The '92 film version of "Of Mice and Men," was well done in every regard, but many things were different from the book. ... Lennie is a strong man, who can easily handle manual labor, but is very intellectually challenged. ... The ranch boss's son, Curley, is a very contentious man who often gets into fights. ... In the book, she doesn't have a book when she comes in. ... In the book, this never happens. ...

• Word Count: 1787
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Of Mice and Men The Predatory Nature of Human Existence focused on "Loneliness" In the novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, most of the characters, such as Crooks, Candy and Curley's wife, confront the certain kinds of loneliness. ... Crooks, Negro stable buck who lives alone in the barn, is a black man that experiences isolation because the society in which he lives is racist. ... He looks down on himself as an old useless man wasting away his times. ... Every character in the book is different and no protagonists act alike. Nobody in the book shared the same interests or d...

• Word Count: 1349
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

John Steinbeck, The author of the novel "Of Mice and Men", set the book during the Wall Street crash, where thousands of people lost or didn't know how much money they had. ... As George and Lennie enter the ranch, they see candy, an old man who has worked there for years as a swamper because of his injured hand. ...

• Word Count: 310
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

This is what life is like for George, Lennie, Candy, Crooks, and Curley's wife in John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men. ... Curley's wife believes she has a higher authority than other people, but she is weak and lonely throughout this book. ... Crooks, who is the only black man living by himself on the ranch doesn't expect Lennie and Candy to come into his room. "Guys don't come into a colored man's room very much" (75). ... He is the only black man in this story who isn't treated equally as other workers. ...

• Word Count: 1301
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Outsiders All of the people in "Of mice and men" are outsiders in there own right, they have all been disallowed, or to a certain extent not wanted to have certain rights because of things such a sex, race and different disabilities. ... Crooks is a black man in the 1930s, this was especially not a nice time to be a black person. ... A woman is different to a man in the way they live and want to be respected, there feelings can be easily hurt and the men do not seen to understand or care. Candy is an outsider because he is old and crippled, and when your are old and or crippled you are u...

• Word Count: 500
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School