Prompt - (Section III and IV) What does the flashback show? How does the flashback leave the audience feeling at the end of the movie? Does that feeling match the feeling at the end of the book? Why do you think the director chose to use a different ending rather than just showing exactly what's in the book? What is the line of dialogue that ends the book? What does that line tell us about the speaker? What feeling does that leave the reader with? How does it make you feel when he says that? What are your general thoughts, feelings, reactions of
Of Mice and Men? What had the most profound impact on you or your understanding of the novella? Who would you recommend this book to and why?
The flashback at the end of the movie shows George and Lennie walking (away) together in the field. It kind of shows that they are free from work and they are going to live their dream. The flashback leaves the audience feeling probably sad and disappointed because they never got their happy ending now that George killed Lennie and George was on his own. The feeling of the movie doesn't really match the feeling at the end of the book because in the book, the feeling was sort of incomplete because the author mentioned that George left with Slim but they never showed the reactions of the rest of the people. I think that the author chose to end the movie differently than the book because he probably wanted the movie to end in a flashback to make the feeling/tone stay with the movie instead of just bringing in the rest of the characters while leaving it on a cliffhanger and ruining the mood.
The line of dialogue that ends the book is when Carlson says to Curley, "Now what the hell do you suppose is eatin' them two guys?" This line tells us that the speaker (Carlson) didn't understand why George and Slim were sad about Lennie because it's showing that back then, ranchers didn't really care about each other or if they died. Also, it shows that Carlson didn't even know how it felt to have a dream or ambition with someone and then have it ruined. It basically symbolized that him and Curley couldn't imagine the pain that George (especially) and Slim were going through. The last line leaves the reader feeling bad because the ending was really sad and it ended up in a cliffhanger. It made me feel bad for all the characters because I didn't know what was going to go on in their futures.
I actually liked the book Of Mice and Men and I didn't expect to enjoy it because I thought it would be difficult but it actually wasn't. It was interesting to me and I think that it had a good ending even though I wanted to know more about what would happen after. The part that had the most profound impact on me was when Carson shot Candy's dog just because it was old. This impacted me because I really like animals and this showed me how back then, dogs, or animals in general weren't treated as good as they are now; or at all! I would recommend this book to anyone or everyone (of course who is old enough to understand it) because it's a good book, and I, myself liked it.
Prompt - (Section III and IV) What does the flashback show? How does the flashback leave the audience feeling at the end of the movie? Does that feeling match the feeling at the end of the book? Why do you think the director chose to use a different ending rather than just showing exactly what's in the book? What is the line of dialogue that ends the book? What does that line tell us about the speaker? What feeling does that leave the reader with? How does it make you feel when he says that? What are your general thoughts, feelings, reactions of Of Mice and Men? What had the most profound impact on you or your understanding of the novella? Who would you recommend this book to and why?
This week, I viewed a lot of different interesting articles. Some had the same topics that were common, and some were unique that I hadn't heard of. One of the articles that I saw more than once was about the Nepal earthquake. Another article that I saw a few times was about Baltimore riots. Even though I have seen some articles quite a few times, there were some that stood out to me. One of the articles that I found that was really interesting was one about a free wifi project on a phone that google and other companies were working on.
Going back to the Nepal earthquake article; I noticed that all of the many ones that I viewed all had different information, but were about the same topics. This happened because news is constantly changing. One of the articles specifically said that 3,000 people were killed, and another one said 8,000 (people were killed)! That was a big difference, so all the articles were actually exactly identical even though they had the same topic. Some things that I learned from these articles was that it was the worst earthquake in 80 years and also it had a 7.5 magnitude. It occurred 7 miles below ground and it cause an avalanche in Mt. Everest. The government is helping to pay the families that lost people in the earthquake.
The first conflict that I think was that Lennie always gets into trouble. The problem is that hue doesn't know what he is capable of. There are so many times that he had gotten in trouble from not letting go of things. He likes to touch soft things (mice, rabbits, puppies, silk, etc.), so that's how he always is getting in trouble. One of the things that he did was touch a girl's dress and not let go of it. Then, he always killed mice because they were too small. Also, in the ranch, he had killed a puppy because it was very small. Lastly, one major thing that he did that was very bad was snapping Curley's wife's neck and killing her on accident; and it could start as simple as touching her hair, then he doesn't know what he is doing.
One problem that the characters face in book 11; The Grim Grotto, was when they lost touch with their new friend Quigley Quagmire. They finally figured out where he was when they reached a cave by the Stricken Stream, while on their way to find their sister Sunny. It was believed that he died in his house fire, but he managed to survive. He is one of the Quagmire triplets, two of the triplets had known the Baudelaires for some time and the were friends. So, they lost touch with him after they rescued their sister and were trying to escape from Count Olaf, when all of a sudden a waterfall carried Quigley away and the Baudelaires from each other while heading down the slippery slope.
The third and final major problem that they faced was when Count Olaf and his troupe found them, on their much bigger submarine. They captured them, but, a good thing was that, like always, they managed to escape by convincing one of Count Olaf's associates. He turned out to be the brother of Fiona (the daughter of the captain of the submarine). The children convinced the associate to let them escape while he was watching them for Count Olaf, and they said they would take him with them. He agreed, but, Count Olaf caught them, but of course, the Baudelaires escaped without Fiona or her brother; and were off on their own again.