Million Dollar Baby Themes

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Of Mice and Men/ Million Dollar Baby Essay
In the book Of Mice and Men By: John Steinbeck, it gave us a lot of life lesson to learn about and a lot for us to think about. Also in the movie Million Dollar Baby directed by Clint Eastwood have a lot of similarities to Of Mice and Men. Some similarities are that they have some of the same themes like loneliness and poverty and have characters are have the same traits like Lennie and Maggie also, Frankie and George. Maggie in Million Dollar Baby has a large determination for becoming a good fighter.
In this novel and movie one of the bigger themes was poverty. Given the fact that this novel and book is based on around the time of the Great Depression there is still signs of poverty in both the novel and the movie. One of the parts in the movie with the most influence in the whole movie is when Maggie is taking food from the diner. She says in the movie ‘it's for the dog’ she says this to a man that caught her putting it in napkins and bags. In the …show more content…

They both include similar characters and story plots. In the movie Million Dollar Baby, it’s characters are same to Of Mice and Men like Lennie and Maggie. Lennie and Maggie are similar because they both have someone to watch over them and they always need someone's help with something and they have George and Frankie that love them. Frankie from Million Dollar Baby and George from Of Mice and Men, Frankie and George both watch over Maggie and Lennie. George and Frankie both don’t have any family so they only have Maggie and Lennie. During their time spent with Lennie and Maggie. They grew strong bonds like when Maggie died, Frankie and Maggie grew a strong bond that couldn’t be broken. She was like a daughter to Frankie. Lennie and George had a bond that no one understood but Lennie and George, George loved Lennie enough to end his life before Curley came so that he wouldn’t have to

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