Bunkhouse

Gender/Feminist Critiques in “Of Mice And Men” Imagine you lived in an area where there only are people of your opposite sex. You are sent to jail for no cause and you are lonely and locked up in one place. When you are freed, you would most likely want to talk to people and would expect the same from the others. In “Of Mice And Men”, John Steinbeck shows Feminist/Gender Critique. Throughout the book, there’s only one woman living on the ranch and the author demonstrates that she is the villain.…

Steinbeck makes the reader feel sorry for Crooks by making them empathise with him. When Crooks sees Lennie in his stable, he tries to make Lennie understand how he feels by saying: “S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunkhouse ’cause you was black. How’d you like that? S’pose you had to sit out here and read books.” Steinbeck uses parallel structure in Crooks’ words by repeating the same pattern of words within the speech, and this technique helps to accentuate…

Throughout the early 1930’s, Steinbeck’s characters were in search of a better life. They believed that they would achieve freedom from their nomadic lifestyles in America. Unfortunately, after the Wall Street crash of 1929 many of them lost their dream once the Great Depression began. To make matters worse, the increased farming activity and the 7 year drought, which began in 1931, created the Dust Bowl in the Great Plain States. During this time, many people traveled to California in search of…

ranch, they were greeted by Candy. Candy was an old man who had lost his hand in a ranch accident. He had an old dog to help him out, the dog had no name. Candy showed George and Lennie to the bunkhouse where they would sleep and spend their time off. Curley, the ranch owner’s son, walked into the bunkhouse with a bad attitude and saw the two guys his…

The historical aspect of the book is very valuable to me. The story takes place during The Great Depression. In the book, the two men, George and Lennie, are in search of new jobs in Soledad. Then they find themselves living in an abominable bunkhouse, and are doing temporary labor at a ranch. At the time of The Great Depression, many migrant workers get displaced into jobs that are involved with hard labor to make money. I conclude that this makes the book have more historical value being that…

The book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck is a tale about two men who are immigrant workers back in the 1930’s and their journey through life. Throughout the book, the reader learns about two men, George and Lennie, and the troubles they face being migrant farm workers. George is a short man with strong features while Lennie is tall and less defined. In the book you discover the dream the two men have, their past struggles, and how they face each day. There are dozens of themes and…

energetic women, so when she is confined in a small house, she feels as if she needs to talk to people. What worsens the loneliness is that whoever she tries to talk to shoos her away. Whenever she feels lonely, she takes an adventure to the men’s bunkhouse to search for anyone that will talk to her. All of the men know that talking to her is not a good idea since she is the boss’s son’s wife. They will not talk to her because apparently “‘she got the eye’” (pg. 28). One day, she finds Lennie,…

for some sort of happiness. Loneliness throughout the book of Candy, Crooks and Curley’s wife drive them to the verge of insanity as they struggle in their daily lives to fit in. Candy fears what will happen when he is no longer able to swamp bunkhouses. He gets peer pressured into having his dog took out…

William Owen Ms. Gommermann English 11 20 February 2017 The Importance Of Equality Bayard Rustin once said, “If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.” This is an important piece of advice because we, as neighbors, must…

"A work of literature must provide more than factual accuracy or vivid physical reality... it must tell us more than we already know." - E. M. Forster. This means that the story must provide a little more then just facts and vivid physical reality. It must give more knowledge of what is already known and what is and must be achieved. I agree with the critical lens is valid because without the method of writing readers would be lost when they read about articles. They would have to research…