How much will you sacrifice? How much could you possibly loose for progress? How much? Of Mice and Men, a work of literature by John Steinbeck, it was published on 1937 around the time of Great Depression. The main characters of the book are Lennie and George, they moved from Weed and settled to a ranch in Soledad, California in the early 1930’s during the Great Depression. John Steinbeck wrote this marvelous tale that revolves around the theme: Price of Progress. Lennie, George, Curley, Curley’s Wife, Crooks, and Candy are some of the characters that helped mold the theme. They all wanted to accomplish a certain task that in return cost them a whole lot.
Let’s begin with Curley, he is the ranch owner’s son that Lennie and George works for. Starting chaos is his thing, he tries to prove to everyone that he is higher than anybody else. He always try to start a fire with another member of the ranch to prove his point. Towards the middle of the book, he tried to pick on Slim but he ended up being a coward against him. He was trying to build his reputation back after Slim scared him, so he decided to pick on Lennie. He said to Lennie, “Come on, ya big bastard. Get up your feet. No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me. I’ll show ya who’s yella.” After that, he slashed Lennie and smashed down his nose. When the …show more content…
Of Mice and Men captured the risks people explore for success. John Steinbeck took a novel of laboring class in a great way to express the theme price of progress. It covered different scenarios that could be experience in the real world. Could you accidentally kill someone for pleasure? Lose good company because of peer pressure? Live in a separated location to survive? Talk to someone with not enough knowledge for attention? How much? Simply how much could you sacrifice and do for progress? How
Let’s begin with Curley, he is the ranch owner’s son that Lennie and George works for. Starting chaos is his thing, he tries to prove to everyone that he is higher than anybody else. He always try to start a fire with another member of the ranch to prove his point. Towards the middle of the book, he tried to pick on Slim but he ended up being a coward against him. He was trying to build his reputation back after Slim scared him, so he decided to pick on Lennie. He said to Lennie, “Come on, ya big bastard. Get up your feet. No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me. I’ll show ya who’s yella.” After that, he slashed Lennie and smashed down his nose. When the …show more content…
Of Mice and Men captured the risks people explore for success. John Steinbeck took a novel of laboring class in a great way to express the theme price of progress. It covered different scenarios that could be experience in the real world. Could you accidentally kill someone for pleasure? Lose good company because of peer pressure? Live in a separated location to survive? Talk to someone with not enough knowledge for attention? How much? Simply how much could you sacrifice and do for progress? How