Rejected and misunderstood
John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. Even in high school English was his strong suite. He worked at various jobs and one in particular as a ranch hand on some of the local ranches. Later this took him to use the settings, people, and images used in Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck graduated from high school and went on to Stanford University. Then soon after that he then made his book Of Mice and Men. It’s a story of two men who go to a ranch and then they get into a heap of trouble just after arriving. Even though the story is centered on the lives of the two men throughout the story we see that there are a lot of people who are brought out. So as you read you see the problems that people …show more content…
He is a very big and very helpless man. His size turns people away from him and also against him and gives them a bad image of him. ‘The ranch hands are suspicious of Lennie and fear him when they recognize his physical strength and his inability to control himself “ (Themes and Construction: Of Mice and Men). People think that he is a very large and dangerous man. Although Lennie is very very innocent, he is still capable of very great violence. He lacks the ability to control himself physically and has a great protective instinct especially when it comes to his friend George. People often look at Lennie as a grown man but as it says here “Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly. He pushed himself back, drew up his knees, embraced them, looked over to George to see whether he had it just right. He pulled his hat down a little more over his eyes, the way George 's hat was.” (steinbeck 4) that can be proven false. One thing that should stand out to us is the fact that Lennie is doing what a child would do as if he is looking at a father for help. We don 't know what Lennie is struggling through but we know that he seems to have some sort of serious mental issue/disability and that leads to a misunderstanding in his
John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. Even in high school English was his strong suite. He worked at various jobs and one in particular as a ranch hand on some of the local ranches. Later this took him to use the settings, people, and images used in Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck graduated from high school and went on to Stanford University. Then soon after that he then made his book Of Mice and Men. It’s a story of two men who go to a ranch and then they get into a heap of trouble just after arriving. Even though the story is centered on the lives of the two men throughout the story we see that there are a lot of people who are brought out. So as you read you see the problems that people …show more content…
He is a very big and very helpless man. His size turns people away from him and also against him and gives them a bad image of him. ‘The ranch hands are suspicious of Lennie and fear him when they recognize his physical strength and his inability to control himself “ (Themes and Construction: Of Mice and Men). People think that he is a very large and dangerous man. Although Lennie is very very innocent, he is still capable of very great violence. He lacks the ability to control himself physically and has a great protective instinct especially when it comes to his friend George. People often look at Lennie as a grown man but as it says here “Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly. He pushed himself back, drew up his knees, embraced them, looked over to George to see whether he had it just right. He pulled his hat down a little more over his eyes, the way George 's hat was.” (steinbeck 4) that can be proven false. One thing that should stand out to us is the fact that Lennie is doing what a child would do as if he is looking at a father for help. We don 't know what Lennie is struggling through but we know that he seems to have some sort of serious mental issue/disability and that leads to a misunderstanding in his