Movie Analysis: Of Mice And Men And The Mighty

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For the purpose of “Relate a Studied Text With Another Text,” I choose the ABC presentation on Of Mice and Men and The Mighty. Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck, where as The Mighty is a movie directed by Peter Chelsom. George and Maxwell are the protagonists in Of Mice and Men and The Mighty respectively. We read and studied Of Mice and Men in class with Mr. Hill, yet watched The Mighty. The assignment was to create an slideshow with twenty six slides, each with one word that meant something for both Of Mice and Men and The Mighty. Each of the twenty six words had to begin with a different letter of the alphabet. We were also asked to find a picture related to the word. The assignment is an example of the objective

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