Of+Mice+and+Women

Of Mice and Women that Wear Pearls Olivia Fucinari Gabby Ammiano Lisa McLellan Lydia Sisko

=**Trailer for __Of Mice and Men__**= media type="youtube" key="LmH_MnLPrHk" height="315" width="420" I envisioned the movie to be way different from what I saw in the trailer. First off, I thought Lennie was going to be HUGE. In my head, Lennie would have looked like Andre the Giant, not a slightly bigger John Malkovich. Secondly, from what I read in the book, George wasn't that white. On the back cover, it stated that George had a dark looking face. Actually, I kind of thought George would be a little Hispanic. Lastly, I thought Curly's wife would have looked way different. The way I saw it in my head, I thought her curls would be more pronounced and she would be a little more floosy than she seemed in the trailer. -Lydia

=**Coyotito Being Bitten from __The Pearl__**= media type="youtube" key="8C3mRnF9VQw" height="315" width="420" Although this is in black and white, I still envisioned this scene differently. First on my list: their clothes. You would think that a poor family would be wearing rags, not actual clothing, right? I would also think that since they didn't have running water back in the day, they wouldn't have looked so clean and all made-up. Also, in my head, I saw the hut being more dirty and smaller. The hut would have been one small room, but it seems that the hut is big. However, I do think Coyotito sounded like a baby coyote, not an actual baby. -Lydia

On YouTube, there is a video of a toddler playing with a dead squirrel. Creepy, right? This probably sounds really weird, but it reminded me of Lennie from __Of Mice and Men__. Like the girl in the video, Lennie pet and played with the dead mice and dead puppy. Also, they both didn't want to let go of the dead animal. They just wanted to keep playing/petting it. There are a few reasons why I didn't post the video: a) the mom swears a ton b) the kid is really creepy c) the whole "Let's let our young and topless child play with a dead squirrel and video tape it so we can become famous and stuff!!!" thing is just really, really, really, weird. -Lydia

Coyotito vs. Lennie

Coyotito is a baby with the mind of a baby. He can only do what his under-developed mind allows him to do. "Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a small child." (just as Coyotito does) Lennie is a grown man; however, he cannot function as a normal adult man would. He, like Coyotito, does not always understand right from wrong. In "Of Mice and Men", Lennie makes certain decisions that ultimately result in him losing his life. For example, when he would not let go of Curley's wife's hair. In "The Pearl", Coyotito, a young, innocent baby that no one would ever think deserves any harm, ultimately loses his life as well because of a cry that is mistaken as a call of a coyote. Ironically, those in both stories who seem to have to most innocence and mean the least harm are those that result in death. -Olivia

Lydia insisted that we don't post this but I just had to. I couldn't resist. -Olivia media type="youtube" key="9Nn0UkdDArM" width="425" height="350" I'm still not comfortable with this on our Wikispace...-Lydia Think of the common good of our class, Lydia. -Olivia Common good? What? No, its just creepy.-Lydia I know, it really is -Olivia

John Steinbeck writes novels that deal with issues like poverty and social structue. In both the novels "Of Mice and Men" and "The Pearl", the main characters are poor men who are living day by day, with not enough resources. They both have other people to support as well. George must support Lennie, and Kino must support his family, Juana and Coyotito. Then men portrayed both want to break their social standing and move up to the higher classes. Steinbeck writes about the challenges of breaking your rank and wanting more than you are supposed to recieve. George and Kino learn that climbing to the top is not always easy, especially if you have people trying to push you back down. The upper class in Steinbeck's novels look down on the poor and treat them as if they are animals, just there to work the land and take up space. I think he was trying to get a point out to the people of this time, that greed is costly, and breaking the social order is not always a good idea.

-Gabriella

This picture depicts the ending of the book where George shoots Lennie. Even though the fact that he shot Lennie was morally wrong, the way he committed the act made the situation a little bit more humane. George coaxed Lennie into peaceful state and started to get him to talk about his dreams and to think about the new house they hoped to buy. After getting Lennie distracted, George shot Lennie in the back of the head so he wouldn't feel the pain. -Lisa

This is a picture from a version of __Of Mice and Men__ as a play, during the scene where Lennie accidentally kills Curley's wife. Although Lennie didn't mean any harm, he accidentally killed her by shaking her too violently and covering her mouth as she screamed for help when she got frightened by Lennie. After this, Lennie and George run away from the ranch so that way Lennie does not get killed by the other men. They run away, where George ends up shooting Lennie himself because he is only causing problems and is of no use, similarly to Candy's dog that was shot as well. -Lisa