My Emotional Journey

An emotional journey in my life would be when I first moved to Arizona and then moved back to Texas. I moved when I was about to turn twelve and I had just finished the fifth grade. We moved to Gilbert, Arizona. Once I got there it took a little while to a adjust. I went through the sixth grade and then, because I was in a “Charter School” kind of, I was split up from most of my friends again. In the seventh grade, it was somewhat hard again, but not as hard as the first big move. I soon made many new friends who I got along with better than before. I stayed there for all of the seventh grade. In the eighth grade I continued to form many good relationships and had a great time with all of my friends. We hung out and had a good time. Then at about two weeks before the first semester was up we had to move again. I was fourteen when we moved back to Texas. I was sad, because I would leave all of my good friends behind, but also kind of happy at the same time. I would be able to see all of my relatives again. Most of my relatives live in Texas. I once again had to go through the process of having to fit in and make new friends. Although it has gotten easier, I’m a shy guy who does not talk much so it is a little hard for me. I managed though I have once again made many good friends.

How I feel about blogging

Blogging to me is just another way of writing. Your blog can be anything you want it to be. Our class is using it to publish schoolwork or publish our thoughts about books. It can be your online journal or diary that you post your thoughts and feelings each and every day. It has many different uses and possibilities. I myself enjoy using computers to write. It feels better to know that someone can actually read my writing on the computer compared to my handwriting even though I can write faster then I type, which is pretty sad. UI hope that we will switch to doing blogs instead of our journals. It is fun to set up the blog, because of all the different things you can add on and change about them. You can change the background, font, font color, the little games and apps on the sides; it is all really fun to me.

Applying Of Mice and Men to our lives today.

What are the lessons to be learned from this book.
At the end of the book, George kills Lennie. Mrs. Foster asked our class the question, was George killing Lennie a “Mercy Killing.” My answer to this question from my analyzing the data was yes. I will explain my answer in a moment. First, I would like to address the phrase “Mercy Killing.”
Here are some definitions provided by various sites:
1. The Free Online Dictionary- Noun1.mercy killing - the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)
2. www.ecancerawareness.com/cancer_glossary/m.php - An easy or painless death, or the intentional ending of the life of a person suffering from an incurable or painful disease at his or her request. Also called euthanasia.

It is putting a living thing, Lennie in the book, to death, usually because of pain or suffering. Now for the reason that I chose yes. I chose yes, for many different reasons. Here are the main ones. First, he had a mental illness unknown to us as readers and wherever he went, he got into trouble. If George could get Lennie out of the mess, he was in at the moment it would only keep happening again. Also, the men would’ve caught Lennie, George killing Lennie painlessly was far better than what Curly as going to do to him. I think I remember something about him being tortured and then lynched. Finally, at the end of the book at the pond, Lennie began to hallucinate and he seemed to have finally gone crazy. In that day and time people like Lennie when not treated very well, George put an end to his suffering and eased his pains. That is why I answered yes to the question.

Contrasting the Movie to the Book

To begin with, I imagined Lennie Small as a large man. In the movie, he was larger, but not much larger than the other men were, although he was stronger. In addition, I imagined George to be a little bit smaller, but that is just what I made up in my imagination. Now from what my third period class saw, we did not see the whole movie, the book and the movie were mostly the same. The settings, once again from my point of view, were a little different at parts, like the beginning where the bus driver drops them off and on the way to the ranch. Then some of the parts happened at different locations, like when the men were first talking about shooting Candy’s dog. The plot was just about right on for the book though. Our class ended after the part with Lennie going into Crooks shack, I think, it might have been a little bit after that part. I do remember when the tart was asking Lennie and George about Curley’s hand, which had a wrong setting going by the book, but I can not remember if that happened before or after the shack scene. The shack scene was very well portrayed though. The man who played Crooks did great that was on of my favorite parts during the movie. All in all, the movie and the book were both close together in plot, but a little farther away in setting structure. I greatly enjoyed both the book and the movie.