In the story, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, readers are introduced to many morally ambiguous characters. It all begins with our two main characters, George and Lennie, who are making their way to a ranch to work. Now, Lennie is a large, inane character and George is a smaller, erudite character. They must work on a ranch so they can make enough money to open their own ranch. However, they run into many roaring complications in the working process.…
Showing compassion and empathy toward a character or a person is showing sympathy. John Steinbeck, the author of Mine and Men makes the readers not sympathetic toward Lennie. The book Of Mine and Men by John Steinbeck is a book about two migrant workers, having the American Dream to own their own place on the fat of the land. Lennie does many things that shows that he is a bad person, it comes out with his actions and his traits.…
We can never truly see what our fellow man is going through Nobody can teach someone else how to grow up. Every person experiences different things and handles certain situations their own way. It isn't fair for someone to tell a person how to handle something they know nothing about.…
Survival doesn't always happen alone. Steinbeck's of mice and men shows that during the Great Depression, the challenge of living with the crushed economy, was too harsh to easily survive. For a time, many people struggled to make ends meet. low-paying jobs didn't even help. In the book, Lennie small and George Milton dream of their new ways to survive – even with a struggle.…
Throughout the story, Of Mice and Men, you definitely hear George preaching the tale of how him, Lennie, Crooks, and Candy will move on from their menial jobs to a small farm. On this land there will be animals for Lennie to take responsibility to, a place for Candy to be able to make decisions for himself and have a secure position, an area where crooks will be accepted with self-respect, and lastly, a place where George can “be somebody” by making something of himself. However, buried in each reason for one of the men to go to this nirvana, is the idea of dignity. They all demand to be respected and have a place to fit in. Moreover, this relates to Caitlyn Jenner’s speech at the ESPY Awards because she, like the optimistic men, desires to…
There are many emotional and heart-string-tugging moments in the Pulitzer Prize winning book Of Mice and Men, such as the death of Candy’s dog and the joy on Lennie’s face when he gets his new puppy. The hardest feat, faced by George, occurred at the end of the book, when Lennie strangles Curly's wife to death and runs away. After years of taking care of his friend, George faces the decision of killing Lennie for the safety of the people on the ranch. This moment in the book marks a change in George's life, even though the story closes so soon after.…
A loss of innocence is where you, being a good person who is pure of heart, soul, and mind, tarnish this reputation by breaking your morales and committing yourself to performing evil deeds. You then lose your innocence as a human being. Lennie shows a lot of innocence the most and during the book/film of Of Mice and Men. He is given the gentle giant role of people someone passive who does not wish to harm others and loves petting soft things, not something you would not expect. However shortly after the opening of Of Mice and Men we figure out that Lennie has committed evil/harmful deeds while in a harmful and distorted mindset as the audience/reader finds out he is dealing with a serious mental illness that turns him into a big man with a…
In this chapter two sub-themes, man’s inhumanity to man and greed, will be discussed as primary causes of conscience crisis that lead to the human predicament in general. The two themes are dealt widely by novelists from many perspectives. From those novelists are John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy who wrote about these themes, both of them in his own way, to convey and to touch people's real lives. “Steinbeck has read and studied deeply, dissecting and examining the various facets of human behavior, including what Wordsworth calls man’s inhumanity to man.” Henry Morgan wrote in his portrait of the single-minded, self-absorbed, “ Steinbeck has provided a portrait of a criminal mind—one moving from atrocity to atrocity, with little evidence of any regret or compassion.”…
Steinbeck presents Candy as an old man who has no one to talk to or keep him company, besides the dog. To him, the dog was more than an animal that struggled; it was a companion to share life with. When Carlson is talking to Candy he offers to kill his dog, Candy refused to answer. Candy stuck, and finally gave in to Carlson’s requests. He had the dog his whole life and now it was gone.…
Carlson identifies the dog as useless and ready to die but Candy sees his dog as a friend. The personality difference is that Carlson jumps straight to the conclusion without thinking twice and Candy hesitates to make a decision at all because Candy kept looking “for help from face to face” (Steinbeck 45). Another character that had to deal with opposites is Crooks. We can see this when Steinbeck states, “Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black.…
Friend, noun, definition; 1) A person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard. 2) A person who gives assistance; patron; supporter. Many qualities make a friend, even more make up a good friend.…
Abuse of Power in Of Mice and Men Power is a tool, leverage and potentially a quality. Power can supply the owner with a sense of status, of being better than others. Power can be used to do many things, but it can also be used negatively. In the wrong hands, power can corrupt, destroy and abuse others, and from this abuse of power is born. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, many of the characters can be observed abusing power, to their advantage or to put others down.…
Do you ever feel helpless, like you do not have choice? Instead the choice was already made for you and you cannot do anything about it? In some situations you encounter a time where you do not have a choice, which can be in a positive or negative way. The choices you make now can affect the choices you make in the future. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, two characters Lennie and George, get a job on the ranch in Salinas Valley.…
The book Of Mice and Men is full of puzzling examples of the human condition, from Lennie and his mental disability to Curley’s wife messing with all of the men’s heads. With characters like these two, the book exploits the human condition that concerns circumstances life has gives you. John Steinbeck brings to life what being a laborer in the American depression meant to the men and one woman who had enough personality to stand out. George, Slim, Curley, and Lennie are all very different people with lives that make them have different views and priorities.…
To ask whether an action is right or wrong, and to answer with one of the two simple, banal choices, is to ignore the rich and enlightening internal quandaries that arise when one must consider morals and ethics. In John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men, dilemmas of these sort present themselves often, particularly when George makes the decision to shoot his companion, Lennie, in order to spare him great pain and suffering. It would be unfair to simply call George’s actions ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, as in order to critically examine them and deem them moral or otherwise one must examine them from unbiased points of view; look at motives and consequences, a process through which Immanuel Kant would esteem George’s actions wrong, John Stuart…