Of Mice and Men Rhetorical Analysis
John Steinbeck uses imagery to compensate for the terrible events in the book. He describes these Beautiful calming scenes, so we can stop thinking about the tragic previous or future events. You can see examples of this all throughout the book. One would be in the beginning when George finds out Lennie killed a mouse, another would be when they shoot Candy's dog and finally, when Lennie killed Curley's wife. The first example of this imagery takes place in the first few pages. Steinbeck describes a beautiful river in great detail. This perfect scene helps us as readers to not be affected by the tragic events that unfold next. Lenny is discovered to be caring and petting a dead mouse, we know Lenny has some kind of disability but we still feel for that poor mouse that Lenny is carrying. Thanks to John's imagery we don't feel as bad, when you read something like this, "The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool."(pg, 1), your mind relaxes. …show more content…
John uses imagery to help the reader not feel so bad. Carlson had just got done shooting this precious dog of candy's. Naturally you would feel sad after, but just two more pages and George and Lennie are talking about their dream and it makes you feel hopeful. John writes in George's voice,"... Got The kitchen, orchard, cherries, apples, peaches, 'cots, nuts, got a few berries. They's A place for alfalfa and plenty of water to flood it."(pg 57) When you picture that, you aren't that sad because you can see their
John Steinbeck uses imagery to compensate for the terrible events in the book. He describes these Beautiful calming scenes, so we can stop thinking about the tragic previous or future events. You can see examples of this all throughout the book. One would be in the beginning when George finds out Lennie killed a mouse, another would be when they shoot Candy's dog and finally, when Lennie killed Curley's wife. The first example of this imagery takes place in the first few pages. Steinbeck describes a beautiful river in great detail. This perfect scene helps us as readers to not be affected by the tragic events that unfold next. Lenny is discovered to be caring and petting a dead mouse, we know Lenny has some kind of disability but we still feel for that poor mouse that Lenny is carrying. Thanks to John's imagery we don't feel as bad, when you read something like this, "The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool."(pg, 1), your mind relaxes. …show more content…
John uses imagery to help the reader not feel so bad. Carlson had just got done shooting this precious dog of candy's. Naturally you would feel sad after, but just two more pages and George and Lennie are talking about their dream and it makes you feel hopeful. John writes in George's voice,"... Got The kitchen, orchard, cherries, apples, peaches, 'cots, nuts, got a few berries. They's A place for alfalfa and plenty of water to flood it."(pg 57) When you picture that, you aren't that sad because you can see their