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Did you know that John Steinbeck is a Nobel Prize winner? The book Of Mice and Men was based on a well-known poem called “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns. The book Of Mice and Men is about two migrant workers named George and Lennie who have a dream to own a ranch one day. How does Steinbeck use foreshadowing in his book? Foreshadowing is shown in Steinbeck’s book through these four things. He relates his book to the poem “To a Mouse”, explaining Lennie’s obsession with soft things, the idea of the…

character in this novella feels isolated at some time, and he uses these feeling to shape the feelings of each character. In the 1930’s, migrant workers were commonly found moving to farms across the country in search of jobs. Black people were left in dust because of their skin color; women were considered property just because they were female; and older people were commonly given the jobs that the other workers did not want. Consequently, the theme of loneliness is revealed in the novella…

The Fight for Life “There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.”(Lee 6 PDF) This quote stated by Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird shows the reader what it was like to live in a small town during the Great Depression, explaining how little they could do with the money they had. Maycomb was an example of what the United States was going through during the Great Depression. The effects of the…

Americans faced a series of challenges beyond the widely discussed stock market crash and emerging distrust of the American financial system. These challenges include the struggle to find work with reasonable pay and the abandonment of farms within the Dust Bowl. Sources describe how these challenges manifested in a large migration of poverty stricken Americans from their native states into the agricultural regions of California. This paper will look at such sources to expound on the…

Of Mice and Men was written by John Steinbeck in 1937. John Steinbeck writes mostly about migrant farm workers. All of his books are placed in Salinas River Valley in California. Of Mice and Men is about two men trying to reach their American Dream, but don't succeed. In this novella, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses sexism with Curley’s wife, racism towards Crooks, and ableism in Lennie to prove that prejudice exists in America. First, John Steinbeck uses sexism in Curley’s wife to prove…

Dreams Make Life Worth Living John Steinbeck’s 1937 novella Of Mice and Men tells the story of two unlikely friends. George Milton, and Lennie Small, a mentally disabled man, are travelling to a ranch in California to work. The men have a dream to one day have their own ranch and to be able to, as Lennie says, “live off the fatta the lan.” Throughout the book and film, produced in 1992, we follow the two men through their struggles, hardship, and ambition as they reach for their dream. Steinbeck…

In the novella Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck writes about the unlikely pair of travelers, George Milton and Lennie Small. This novella takes place during the Great Depression on a ranch in California. The people that make up the ranch are migrant farm workers, who are poor, desperate, and low in society. Lennie Small and George Milton are two of these ranchers. George Milton becomes a tragic hero in the story. A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably…

“‘An’ live off the fatta the lan’,’ Lennie shouted. ‘ An’ have rabbits. Go on, George!’” (Steinbeck 14). In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, two travelers during the Great Depression by the name of George and Lennie are trying to accomplish their goal of having some land with a nice, small house. George and Lennie get so close to achieving this goal, but then Lennie gets into big trouble. He strangles their boss’s daughter-in-law to death, causing their dream to be put on hold. Lennie’s dream…

twentieth century also was a time that caused the United States of America in a shaky situation with the effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. The Great Depression and the Dust bowl effects were shown in John Steinbeck’s novel “The Grapes of Wrath” and the social class. In “The Grapes of Wrath”, the author has introduced us to the effects of the Dust bowl and the great depression era with the Joad…

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