...George and Lennie’s dream is to have a land of their own, working for themselves and live off the fat of the land ( 13-14). My hope or dream you could say is to just get through everyday, it's definitely not as big as George and Lennie’s dream but the way they will success to get their dream is by my hope/ dream of just passing through a day. Getting through a day isnt always easy to do when you have to interact with people around you to figure out how you should talk and act around them. You may come off a certain way that you don't want to come off or may say something to upset them. George and Lennie have to go through this everyday thinking about others so they can work at the new ranch and work enough to get money to succeed and reach...
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...Lennie is a Goner George did the right thing by shooting Lennie because if he didn’t shoot him, Curley would’ve done something a lot worse. George knew Lennie would’ve been killed, being his best friend he would have wanted to kill him. However others might argue that Lennie didn’t know any better and it was an accident. If George didn’t shoot Lennie he might’ve gone to jail. He would’ve been treated terribly there because of his disability. Slim briefly sums up what would happen when he says. “An’ s'pose they lock him up an’ strap him down and put him in a cage” (Steinbeck). This proves he would’ve been treated terribly if George didn’t take matters into his own hands. George was just keeping his word when he told Aunt Clara that he’d look out for Lennie, he was doing that when he shot him. George knew that the chances of Lennie being killed were higher than being put into jail, therefore he probably would’ve wanted to be the one to kill him. When Candy’s dog was shot he was sad because he wanted to do it rather than someone else this is shown when Carlson offers to shoot the dog. “I’ll shoot him for you. Then it won’t be you that does it… He scratched the white stubble whiskers on his cheek nervously. “ I’m so used to him,” he said softly. “ I had him from a pup” (Steinbeck). This proves that Candy wasn’t to sure he wanted someone else to shoot his dog. Now some might think George shouldn’t have killed Lennie because he didn’t know what to do and he didn’t know better. Others...
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...I believe that it is ok to pretend nice because for African-American’s it is essential in order to survive, continue your career, and follows the rules. In chapter 14 on page. 103 & 104 Reesa has to pretend nice to J.D Bowman at her juice stand. J.D Bowman called Reesa a Jew because of her prices for the juice 3 for $0.30. J.D Bowman believes that “anybody that advertises 3 glasses for a dime must be a Jew” he says to he said to her at the juice stand. Reesa even tells him that her family is Baptist but then he just calls her Baptist Jew Girl and goes to his truck with his 2 sons. Reesa didn’t say anything at all despite his displeasure and nervousness. Reesa knows after killing Marvin and then shrugged it off when he heard it was the...
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...“We hang onto our values, even if they seem at times tarnished and worn; even if, as a nation and in our own lives, we have betrayed them more often than we remember. What else is there to guide us? Those values are our inheritance, what makes us who we are as a people.” What President Barack Obama means is that values are what our personalities are built off of. They're the starting point or point of origin. Without them, we tend to let our morals and priorities loose.They help define who we are. But at the same time, the definitions of those values change several thousand times by the time we die. Circumstances change or affect our values. Sometimes success changes the value of family. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George chooses...
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...2. The excerpt starts off with the depiction of two men dressed in the same outfits walking along a path. When the men are being described, their personalities are widely different. One of the men is described as slender and slim, with hard features. The other is described as broad and sluggish with soft, shapeless features. The sluggish man is also said to be walking behind the first man, which could mean that the first man may be more important or keeps the second man in order. In the book the first man is George Milton and the second is Lennie Small. George is very protective of Lennie and does not want him wandering off. He treats Lennie like he is worthless because of his troubled past. Lennie is seen as very optimistic and tries his hardest...
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...Dreams all differ in their own ways, everyone have different dreams . The people in the book had their own dreams. Curly’s wife had her dream to become an actress. Lennie wanted to tened to the rabbits on the farm.The dreams of the people in mice of men are all vastly different and are implicated differently throughout the story. Lennie wants to tened to rabbits , Curly’s wife want’s to be an actress.In the book it said that lennie wanted to tened to the rabbits and curley’s wife wanted to be an actress.page 88 for lennie and page 88 for curley’s wife.The both of them have different dreams and want to live there own dreams.This says that everyone in the book of mice and men have there own dream. Candy was going to give lennie and george money...
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...Rising just above the peak of the mountains is the burning hot sun, getting ready to start the day. The day was becoming warmer and the shadows in the valley were starting to turn to a blueish grey and in the distance, the sounds of men shouting to one another can be discerned. The men belting deafening screams at each other, trying to pinpoint Lennie’s location and take him down. In the book Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, one of the main characters, Lennie, gets into a multitudinous amount of trouble and ends up paying for it all. Lennie is a mentally disabled, middle aged man, who is traveling with George, a fellow companion, who is trying to keep him away from these harmful encounters. George is not able to protect Lennie from the crimes he commits and ended up needing to shoot Lennie to prevent him from any further trouble. Lennie Small’s being shot was a mercy killing and not a murder....
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...“The Red Pony” by John Steinbeck – Critical Analysis John Steinbeck an American writer was born in the year 1902 and died in the year 1968.During his time, Steinbeck was one of the most accomplished writers and his literary works received massive popularity. Most of his novels and short stories were performed as plays on stage and that is one reason why he was among the best sellers during his era. One of his great accomplishments for his involvement in literature was the Literature Nobel Prize he won in 1962. Steinbeck wrote a total of twenty seven books and some of his most common books include; “The grapes of Wrath” written in 1939, the 1952 “East of Eden, The 1937 short novel “Mice and men” (John, pg 23). John Steinbeck spent much of his early life in a rural part of America and worked on various ranches with migrants ‘on spreckler ranch and other nearby ranches during his summers. He attended Salinas high school and later joined Stanford University, although he never graduated. He did various odd jobs before beginning his career as a writer. Steinbeck wrote his first novel Cup of Gold which was published in 1929.Other books he wrote were; the pastures of heaven (1932), The Red Pony (1933), Tortilla Flat (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and many others. During his career, Stein beck was involved in various issues and correspondence. Most of his literary works revolved around his life as well as the issues that affected people then (John, pg 56). One of the issues he wrote...
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...Through the entirety of the classic novella ‘Of Mice and Men’, John Steinbeck uses a variety of dramatic techniques and stylistic devices to convey a clear message of: hopes, dreams and reality. Steinbeck’s placement of such techniques allows him to effectively create a causal loop within the narrative, subsequently applying heavy foreshadowing; whether Steinbeck used this consciously or not. The main plot explores the themes of idealism and more prominently- realism, Steinbeck connects a lot of his novella to real life issues currently happening in his time. Through the course of the narrative, Steinbeck used many literary techniques of which effectively drove the tale to become circular in its events. Steinbeck relied on events that had happened previously- before the narrative had taken place. Through doing so the author creates a vivid sense of ‘déjà-vu’ when a similar event takes place, of which happened quite frequently as the book progresses....
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...Analysis of Major Characters Lennie Although Lennie is among the principal characters in Of Mice and Men, he is perhaps the least dynamic. He undergoes no significant changes, development, or growth throughout the novel and remains exactly as the reader encounters him in the opening pages. Simply put, he loves to pet soft things, is blindly devoted to George and their vision of the farm, and possesses incredible physical strength. Nearly every scene in which Lennie appears confirms these and only these characteristics. Although Steinbeck’s insistent repetition of these characteristics makes Lennie a rather flat character, Lennie’s simplicity is central to Steinbeck’s conception of the novel. Of Mice and Men is a very short work that manages to build up an extremely powerful impact. Since the tragedy depends upon the outcome seeming to be inevitable, the reader must know from the start that Lennie is doomed, and must be sympathetic to him. Steinbeck achieves these two feats by creating a protagonist who earns the reader’s sympathy because of his utter helplessness in the face of the events that unfold. Lennie is totally defenseless. He cannot avoid the dangers presented by Curley, Curley’s wife, or the world at large. His innocence raises him to a standard of pure goodness that is more poetic and literary than realistic. His enthusiasm for the vision of their future farm proves contagious as he convinces George, Candy, Crooks, and the reader that such a paradise might be possible...
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...Of Mice and Men “The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” This quote from James Truslow Adams “The epic of America”, states one of the themes in the novella Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck, the author of Of Mice and Men, deals with the topic of living through the great depression, as the readers follow the story of two migrants workers and their wish to fulfil their American Dream. Steinbeck’s inspiration for his novella can be linked back to his own life, as he was both born and raised in Salinas Valley, the most productive agricultural region in California. This essay will cover Of Mice and Men’s setting, the characterisation of major characters and the key themes identified within the novella. Two protagonists, Lennie and George, travel around together to obtain work. Within the novella, Steinbeck has presented two obvious settings, and focused on the contrast between them. Nearing the beginning of the book, the two men spend a night in a small, secluded glade near the river. The description of the nature area could be compared to heaven, just a beautiful place as described in this quote: “On one side of the river, the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Galiban mountains” (page 1, line 5), where the nature is described as majestic, strong and even golden. However a contrast is formed with the two men entering the setting...
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...Literally essay Of Mice and Men Comparison The experience of the speaker in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask” is comparable to Crooks experience in chapter 4 of John Steinbach’s Of Mice and Men. The mask being figurative refers to the emotional mask that covers and conceals one emotion which many blacks wore while being segregated because they were afraid of what would happen if they showed their true feelings. Crooks had a similar experience in chapter 4 in Steinbeck’s book in which he backed down from an argument because he was afraid of the consequences that might fall on him because he was black. One of the lines from Dunbar’s poem shows how effective one could use the mask to hide their anguish and sadness. “We wear the mask that grins and lies- It hides our cheeks and shades our eye-“, the people in this poem used this “mask” to shade their eyes and cheeks which made other people incapable of seeing their true. This method of blocking true emotions is effective because often you can see the real feelings and emotions of a person by looking into their eyes and cheeks which are supposedly “gateways” to one’s true self. By putting on an emotionless and blank persona you can show no sign of you ever being tortured by the hateful words thrown at you. Likewise Crooks also has to deal with hurtful comments such as the N word yet he abides and remains throughout the rest of the chapter with a blank emotionless tone and voice. In chapter 4 page 81, Curley’s wife...
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...Celton Brito-Lobato Analyse and compare how Lady Macbeth and Curley's wife are presented Shakespeare’s ' Macbeth' and Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ In the Shakespearean play of ‘Macbeth’ we are introduced to the character of Lady Macbeth. Similarly in John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice of Men we also presented with an equally diverse character of Curley's wife. ‘Macbeth’ was written during the early 17th century, and was a play 'fit for a king'. It outlines a couple's ambition to become rulers of Scotland and sees them fulfil this ambition and in doing so, killing the king in the process. Despite being written during patriarchal Jacobean society, Lady Macbeth is a female protagonist. Throughout the play, through Lady Macbeth's actions we are forced to believe that she is evil. In contrast, in the novel John Steinbeck tells a story of dreams, hopes and loneliness. We are introduced to a majorly significant and complex character, named Curley’s wife. Steinbeck shows us that Curley’s wife is flirtatious, mischievous (despite the patriarchal society of the 1930’s) but most of all she is an isolated character. Her hasty marriage to Curley proves to be failed attempt to escape her own spiral of disappointment of not fulfilling her ambition of becoming an actress. This ironically is a main theme in both texts. This essay will analyse and compare the presentation of Lady Macbeth and Curley's wife through structure, themes, what is said about them, their actions and what they themselves...
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...Quotes in chronological order 1. Dearest partner in greatness 2. Human kindness 3. Unsex me here 4. Make thick my blood 5. To beguile the time 6. Face my thane is a book 7. Night’s great business into my dispatch 8. Out damned spot! William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ and John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ written in the 17th and 20th century, separated by hundreds of years of development and change within the world, both reflect the ideologies, treatment and representations of women in their respective eras. The principal feminine representatives are Lady Macbeth and Curley’s wife who throughout both texts demonstrate similarities and differences in their portrayal of their relationships with their male counterpart, the description of their tragic deaths and the conventional role of men and women and how they fit or break the stereotype. In this essay, I will refer to the aforementioned depictions, analysing the techniques the writers use to create their characters, and how a Jacobean audience, one during the Great Depression of the 1930s and a modern audience would react. Rather than supporting her husband in a subservient manner, Shakespeare makes Lady Macbeth the ruthless mastermind of a fiendish, venal and daring enterprise aimed to ensure her husband would ‘catch the nearest way’. In Act 1 Scene 5, when attempting to convince Macbeth to commit this necessary deed, she utters the heartless words ‘you shall put this night's great business...
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...Relationships are the basis of human interaction and by far the most important in one’s life is friendship. The importance of friendship in one’s life is comparable by no other relationship. Friendship is pure, forgiving and devout. This idea of friendship is undoubtedly illustrated in John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. In the novel, George and Lennie tirelessly work to have a piece of land to call their own, traveling across the country for work. They are both truly devoted to one another and unwaveringly care for one another, and have proven so multiple times throughout the novel. Another relationship that exhibits devotion is that of the main characters in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet are two faithful star-crossed...
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