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Of Mice and Men Response Of Mice and Men was not one of John Steinbeck's best works when it comes to the idea of the story. This was considered out of the box in this generation because people with mental disabilities were treated inept. For an author to take that into consideration and show the people of that time what they can do is extraordinary. This story did follow the same concept Steinbeck had of showing the hardships folks were going through during those years. Of Mice and Men focused…

Compare and Contrast: Cat and Rat and Cat and Mice !!! #1: Introduction: Everybody loves Chinese New Year. Either if its Americans eat every piece of Chinese food left at the restaurant/store, or Chinese people actually celebrating the Chinese New Years Parade, and more religious activities that follow their culture. People read the folktales…

Lit analysis rough draft In the novella Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck readers can see timeless themes and life lessons from the events that will transcribe history. The theme of the novel is mistreatment of minorities is focused too much on the mentally disabled but not those who support them. Another accompanying theme seen in the novel is the one of companionship where you see loss effect of not just a mental disabled person by the caretaker but also his best friend. If the novella had…

Curley’s Wife also finds companionship but in a different way and also for different reasons than the other characters do. Curley is mean and dose not treat his wife in a respectable manner so she goes out looking for somebody else to be treat her with affection. Sometimes she goes into the bunkhouse and tries to start a conversation with the other characters but they always tell her to get out because they don’t want no trouble with Curley. She says in the story, “ Think I don’t like to talk to…

stakes” (66) in front of Kurtz’s house, he recognizes that Kurtz “lacked restraint in the gratification of his various lusts” suggesting that “he was hollow at the core” (67). Kurtz, like the hollow men who are “behaving as the wind behaves” in T.S. Eliot’s poem, is driven by no force other than his lusts. The men in T.S. Eliot’s poem move like the wind, with no clear direction but simply where the wind takes them, just as Kurtz moves with no clear purpose other than where his lusts drive him.…

the idea of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available for every American. The title of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men is a warning for the whole novel as it came from Robert Burn’s poem "To a Mouse" which can be translated as `no matter how well one plans the future, things often go wrong'. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck illustrates the loneliness of migrant workers in search of work during the Great Depression and Dustbowl of the 1930’s. Throughout the…

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, the protagonist, Rainsford, changes his ideology on hunting. At the start of the short story, Rainsford had a discussion with a secondary character and hunting partner, Whitney, while on a sea vessel on their way to Rio de Janeiro. The conversation commences with Whitney stating, “We should have some good hunting up in the Amazon. Great sport, hunting.” Rainsford agreed, “The best sport in the world.” These quotes show that Rainsford is blatantly…

Every year more and more books are being created into movies. In 1992, Of Mice of Men by John Steinbeck was also created into a movie. To summarize, In the Of Mice of Men book two men named George Milton and Lennie Small were ran out of a small farming town weed due to Lennie being accused of rape. The men ran to a new farming village where they worked on a ranch to make enough money for their dream of owning a small house and “live on the fatta the lan,’”. While on this ranch Lennie got himself…

[Mikel Chartin] [Ms. Draper] [English III, 6th hour] [1st September, 2017] Loneliness in "Of Mice and Men" Have you ever moved before? The emotional ties with the people you associate with are often cut off, and you have to start over again. This is how people in the story, "Of Mice and Men" live their lives. Author John Steinbeck introduces the main characters as Lennie- a man of giant size, with a childlike mind, and his caretaker, George. Lennie's social skills often get him into serious…

and the noises he made. Some people aren’t treated fairly still due to the way they look or sound. American society in the 1930s was ignorant to difference and slow to change because some people didn’t care. In John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men set in the 1930’s in Salinas Valley, California we meet the static character Lennie Smalls and his best friend George Milton. While it is obvious to the reader that Lennie has a mental disability because of his actions, it is never directly stated.…