Chapter 6

The Giant Rabbit in the story is something very unique that doesn't come up in the movie. I thought that the rabbit was a very good add to the book, it shows the wildness of Lennie's childish imagination!

The way that the book wraps up the story is much better than the movie. In the book it really shows how George is beginning to change, while in the movie there isn't much change in him. I think that in the book Steinbeck chose to add the giant rabbit and Aunt Clara because it shows how wild of an imagination Lennie has. Also, it shows that Lennie really does know that he did something bad, but his self conscious is terrified of what might happen. It almost seems as if his self conscious already knew that this was going to happen, it also seems as if it already knew that he would die. In the movie, I think that Sinise left it out because he can just show Lennie talk to himself, also it doesn't work as a picture as well. In our minds, we can picture a thought bubble above Lennie's head with a giant rabbit. However, on the screen it looks much different, I don't think people would understand where it came from. I like it better with the giant rabbit and Aunt Clara even though she is greatly different than was I had expected of her.
Overall, I enjoyed this book some what. I thought the ideas being portrayed were good and meaningful. However, I didn't like watching the movie before reading, I would have rather read the entire book first, then watched the movie. If we had gone in this order, the ending would have been more of a surprise. In the story, I liked Lennie the best because he seemed most like me. The ways Lennie and I were the same are numerous, for example, I have to touch everything I see and he feels everything he sees. But the general book was good.