Jessica Mulero
Mrs. LeBlanc
Ap Lang & Comp- Period 2
11 January 2016 Personal Response of OMAM The second time reading the novella, “Of Mice and Men,” I interpreted Steinbeck’s commentary on relationships between employees and bosses and men and women, the rationalization of killing, and the potency of the American Dream. Moreover, as I am older and wiser, I clearly understand Steinbeck’s virtue of companionship as I realized how fascinating George and Lennie shared their lives together. Steinbeck enabled me to recognize how important friendship and loyalty is and I appreciated the way George and Lennie are two totally diverse people who got along and looked out for one another. I cherished the fact that George never gave up on Lennie and how Lennie tried his best to act more presentable and live up …show more content…
It overall turned out to be for his own good. What also caught my attention the second time reading the novella, was the contrast between the characters Slim and Curley, as Slim is the more introvert and the fragile man and Curley is considered to be tenacious and the one who actuates fights in order for the others to think he is the tough guy. In comparison, Curley uses emphatic and authoritative language as he demands for respect since he is the son of the boss as “he wore high-heeled boots” (Steinbeck 33). Steinbeck describes Slim to be a God-like figure at first, but the reader establishes that he turns out to be just as ordinary, ignorant, and uneducated as the rest of them as he remarks in the whimsical, informal slang sentence “It’s brighter’n a bitch outside” (34). The audience also interprets how flirtatious Curley’s wife is as she teases the ranch farmers to make her husband jealous. The audience establishes the way some of the characters discriminate against African-Americans. Dogmatic and racial language are presented as the character Crooks is
Mrs. LeBlanc
Ap Lang & Comp- Period 2
11 January 2016 Personal Response of OMAM The second time reading the novella, “Of Mice and Men,” I interpreted Steinbeck’s commentary on relationships between employees and bosses and men and women, the rationalization of killing, and the potency of the American Dream. Moreover, as I am older and wiser, I clearly understand Steinbeck’s virtue of companionship as I realized how fascinating George and Lennie shared their lives together. Steinbeck enabled me to recognize how important friendship and loyalty is and I appreciated the way George and Lennie are two totally diverse people who got along and looked out for one another. I cherished the fact that George never gave up on Lennie and how Lennie tried his best to act more presentable and live up …show more content…
It overall turned out to be for his own good. What also caught my attention the second time reading the novella, was the contrast between the characters Slim and Curley, as Slim is the more introvert and the fragile man and Curley is considered to be tenacious and the one who actuates fights in order for the others to think he is the tough guy. In comparison, Curley uses emphatic and authoritative language as he demands for respect since he is the son of the boss as “he wore high-heeled boots” (Steinbeck 33). Steinbeck describes Slim to be a God-like figure at first, but the reader establishes that he turns out to be just as ordinary, ignorant, and uneducated as the rest of them as he remarks in the whimsical, informal slang sentence “It’s brighter’n a bitch outside” (34). The audience also interprets how flirtatious Curley’s wife is as she teases the ranch farmers to make her husband jealous. The audience establishes the way some of the characters discriminate against African-Americans. Dogmatic and racial language are presented as the character Crooks is