Qing Rou Deng. Posting 1. Compare and Contrast

The two stories for this project have different motives and themes. I think Of Mice and Men is more of a book that manipulated the reader to feel sad and sympathy and the Adventures of Huckleberry Fin is more of an adventure story showing the reader what the world was like during that era. So Of Mice and Men to me was deeper and more sentimental. My opinion comes from some of the recurring things within the two stories. In Huckleberry Fin things that occur more than once are superstition, the effect of adventure novels (evident especially in rescuing Jim), lying, scams, racism, hatred of society and more. Some of these topics are really strong topics and can be very sensitive however to me Mr. Twain wrote the story in more of a comical style than a style to make the reader feel sympathetic (with exception of some parts). Take the adventure with the fake king and duke for example, they lied, scammed and treated Huck and Jim horribly. I felt it was wrong but some parts of their adventure, like the part about the king taking the role of Juliet, that I did not felt it was such a bad thing. In Of Mice and Men the story showed caring, loneliness, weakness, reaching for an impossible dream and more. And Of Mice and Men is very different for Huckleberry Fin because very small things that I think would be over looked in Huck’s world make me think, a example would be the beautiful scene at the river and how that was first a place where they had a great experience but later is the place where George kills Lenie. I think these books can both be very touching but for certain people and Huckleberry Fin, in my opinion is not a book of feelings.