UNIVERSITY OF EL SALVADOR

WESTERN MULTIDISCIPLINARY CAMPUS

LANGUAGE DEPARTMENTE
LITERATURE II

COMPARING THE MOVIE AND THE LITERARY WORK –

OBJECTIVE: to let students recognize the main differences between their reading and
what Hollywood presents toward a movie.

Setting: Ways that the book and movie are Setting: Ways that the book and movie are the same
different include… include…
 This was not mentioned on  George and Lennie are shown sneaking into
the book. a train at night to escape from Weed.

Characters: Ways that the book and movie

are different include…
 Though not mentioned in the
book, Curley is seen practicing
on a punching bag outside his
house with his wife watching in
boredom.
Characters: Ways that the book and movie are the same
include…
 In the movie, Slim tells George to bring a
mule with a sore foot to the barn. Only
Curley's wife was around and starts a
conversation with George which was later
interrupted by Curley. Curley tells her to
return to the house and issues a warning to
George.

 A worker named Mike approaches Slim and

asks him whether he could switch jobs with
 This was not mentioned in the someone else as he could not keep up with
book. Lennie

Plot Events: Ways that the book and movie Plot Events: Ways that the book and movie are different
are different include… include…

 In the book, they continue talking.  The conversation between Lennie, Crooks,
Candy, and Curley's wife was cut from the
movie.

 In the book, George shoots  In the film he uses a colt revolver.

Lennie with a luger pistol.
 George could not find Lennie in the brush
but instead embraced with Lennie in the
water
 Resolution: Ways that the book and movie
are different include…
 The ending was also changed:
in the book, George remains
on the ranch.
 The book ends with Slim
saying "You hadda George. I
swear you hadda." and the
two walking away. Curley then
asks Carlson whats bugging
the two. This scene was
completely cut out of the
movie and replaced with
George's flashbacks.
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Resolution: Ways that the book and movie are the same
include…
 While in the film, George is seen riding alone
in yet another boxcar to his next destination
in both the introduction and the ending,
indicating that George fled after killing
Lennie, and is reminiscing on past events
during the ride.
 At the end of the novel, George remembered
what he did with Lennie. He remembered
since the beginning they were hire in the
cowhouse.