Of Mice and Men reflects ideas that John Steinbeck conveys in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. John Steinbeck was an American author who wrote multiple books, including Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men is about two Migrant workers in California, George Milton and Lennie Small, after they lost their jobs in Weed, California ,because of Lennie’s stupidity, they had to contemplate on what they had to do next. As Lennie is recumbently George goes to sleep as well thinking about the job that they had tomorrow. Lennie gets in trouble again and George has to kill Lennie by saving him from the people that would make him suffer to death. Steinbeck suggests that people with a lot of power have a lot of responsibility, he points out the faults in our
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In the 1960’s they could be racist and not get in trouble for it. People didn’t think that black people were meant to be real people and they said anything and do anything that they wanted to do them. In Of Mice and Men Candy whispers to George,“The Boss gives him hell when he’s mad”(Steinbeck 20). In the time that Crooks worked at the farm people would always call Crooks the N-Word and Crooks couldn’t fight against it he just had to mind his own business and somethings ignore them, but if he ignored them at the wrong time then they would get mad at him and would sometimes beat him. In Steinbeck’s speech Steinbeck talks about, “Exposing our many grievous faults and failures” Steinbeck say that if we pick out our faults in our society we will have improvement of the world and make our lives easier.
Don’t have one’s life controlled by another human.“The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger.”(Steinbeck 106). Lennie let George take over his life and it was going on for a George got fed up and took care of business and also spared Lennie of torture, so at the moment it was a Love-Hate decision. “He strove to invent a control.” Steinbeck invented a “Safety Valve” that would stop humans from making bombs and explosives for bad situations and start making explosives for good
In the 1960’s they could be racist and not get in trouble for it. People didn’t think that black people were meant to be real people and they said anything and do anything that they wanted to do them. In Of Mice and Men Candy whispers to George,“The Boss gives him hell when he’s mad”(Steinbeck 20). In the time that Crooks worked at the farm people would always call Crooks the N-Word and Crooks couldn’t fight against it he just had to mind his own business and somethings ignore them, but if he ignored them at the wrong time then they would get mad at him and would sometimes beat him. In Steinbeck’s speech Steinbeck talks about, “Exposing our many grievous faults and failures” Steinbeck say that if we pick out our faults in our society we will have improvement of the world and make our lives easier.
Don’t have one’s life controlled by another human.“The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger.”(Steinbeck 106). Lennie let George take over his life and it was going on for a George got fed up and took care of business and also spared Lennie of torture, so at the moment it was a Love-Hate decision. “He strove to invent a control.” Steinbeck invented a “Safety Valve” that would stop humans from making bombs and explosives for bad situations and start making explosives for good