Of Mice and Men Essay - Briar Hoversten
Alone: having no one else present; on one’s own. That’s what the author, John Steinbeck, the author of this book symbolizes. Of Mice and Men is a book about friendship, deception, and death, but most importantly, Loneliness. Mr. Steinbeck makes it believable, that in most cases, when you’re with people, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re not alone. In a lot of cases with people in this book, some of them being Curly’s Wife, Candy, and Crooks even. In some cases it’s more obvious than others, but the idea of this book is to look for the meaning behind the masks that people have. Candy was a given for this, he couldn’t really work since his hand was taken off and his dog was put down. Since his dog was …show more content…
He was also black, and there’s evidence that he was bullied on the farm by Curly’s wife. “I could get you lynched if you don’t find your place.” she spoke on page 81 of the book, indicating that she had way more power than he had or calling him a nigger on page 78 and multiple other times throughout the chapter. It’s obviously that since he told Lennie to get away, he doesn’t want to communicate with others, he was also very suspicious of Lennie just really wanting to talk to him. I think that since he was being racially profiled at the farm, he doesn’t really think that people are nice, which is false. Which brings us to our last …show more content…
Since she was killed by Lennie, she was the only reason why Lennie had to be killed, why was she killed? She was lonely, she had nobody else to talk to, and she had a dream that she wanted people to know about, but she had nobody to talk to it about, she wasn’t. She started a conversation with Lennie, you couldn’t tell, but on page 80, she directly acknowledges him, “Where’d ya get those bruises on your face?” This evidently connects with the main topic of loneliness, because she’s resorted talking to the newest outcast of the group, since she has nobody else to share her dreams with. In my opinion, she’s the most lonely of all of
Alone: having no one else present; on one’s own. That’s what the author, John Steinbeck, the author of this book symbolizes. Of Mice and Men is a book about friendship, deception, and death, but most importantly, Loneliness. Mr. Steinbeck makes it believable, that in most cases, when you’re with people, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re not alone. In a lot of cases with people in this book, some of them being Curly’s Wife, Candy, and Crooks even. In some cases it’s more obvious than others, but the idea of this book is to look for the meaning behind the masks that people have. Candy was a given for this, he couldn’t really work since his hand was taken off and his dog was put down. Since his dog was …show more content…
He was also black, and there’s evidence that he was bullied on the farm by Curly’s wife. “I could get you lynched if you don’t find your place.” she spoke on page 81 of the book, indicating that she had way more power than he had or calling him a nigger on page 78 and multiple other times throughout the chapter. It’s obviously that since he told Lennie to get away, he doesn’t want to communicate with others, he was also very suspicious of Lennie just really wanting to talk to him. I think that since he was being racially profiled at the farm, he doesn’t really think that people are nice, which is false. Which brings us to our last …show more content…
Since she was killed by Lennie, she was the only reason why Lennie had to be killed, why was she killed? She was lonely, she had nobody else to talk to, and she had a dream that she wanted people to know about, but she had nobody to talk to it about, she wasn’t. She started a conversation with Lennie, you couldn’t tell, but on page 80, she directly acknowledges him, “Where’d ya get those bruises on your face?” This evidently connects with the main topic of loneliness, because she’s resorted talking to the newest outcast of the group, since she has nobody else to share her dreams with. In my opinion, she’s the most lonely of all of