What do The Grapes of Wrath, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Of Mice and Men have in common? Each of these stories involves the idea of unfair treatment of the innocent based upon who they are as a person. Although two seperate authors wrote these stories, they still caputured the hard ship and the misconceptions of the people involved. These three stories follow different people, a family, two friends, and a young girl who all either see unfair treatment of the innocent or are the innocent treated unfairly. To truly see this idea come to life one must delve deeper into the stories.
In the first story we read as a class we were introduced into the world of George and Lennie in Of Mice and Men. George and Lennie are two migrant workers who must leave their job because Lennie was falsely accused of raping a woman. As we meet the men George goes on a rant about how “if I was alone I could live so easy,” (Steinbeck, p 12). Here we see that George knows Lennie is difficult, and we learn that Lennie has a mental disability that impairs him in many ways. As the novel goes on we see more and more of Lennie’s disability until his disability destroys him and he kills a woman. The men of the ranch don’t …show more content…
This story follows a young girl who is growing up and learning the ways of her small town through experiences. A large part of this story is the trial of a black man named Tom Robinson who was falsely accused of raping a woman. Through his trial it is clearly proven that he did not rape the young woman and that the story is fabricated, but due to his skin color and prior thoughts of the people of the town, Tom is still convicted of the rape and is sentenced to life in prison. This is our prime example of unfair treatment of the innocent based on who they are as a person. For his skin color an inocent man is sent to prison and even his death just because of how people thought of
In the first story we read as a class we were introduced into the world of George and Lennie in Of Mice and Men. George and Lennie are two migrant workers who must leave their job because Lennie was falsely accused of raping a woman. As we meet the men George goes on a rant about how “if I was alone I could live so easy,” (Steinbeck, p 12). Here we see that George knows Lennie is difficult, and we learn that Lennie has a mental disability that impairs him in many ways. As the novel goes on we see more and more of Lennie’s disability until his disability destroys him and he kills a woman. The men of the ranch don’t …show more content…
This story follows a young girl who is growing up and learning the ways of her small town through experiences. A large part of this story is the trial of a black man named Tom Robinson who was falsely accused of raping a woman. Through his trial it is clearly proven that he did not rape the young woman and that the story is fabricated, but due to his skin color and prior thoughts of the people of the town, Tom is still convicted of the rape and is sentenced to life in prison. This is our prime example of unfair treatment of the innocent based on who they are as a person. For his skin color an inocent man is sent to prison and even his death just because of how people thought of