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    Money is not an Option During the 1930’s when To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place there was a depression everywhere in the country. Great dust storms ravaged land across the great plains. This put an end to almost all agriculture in the region. People starving, many people had very little to eat. The stock market crashed. A lot of banks closed. The main point of the story is that there is a african american man that must go on trial for crime he may not have committed. The trial…

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    One Rainy Sunday Rainy days have a set vibe based on the day of the week. Rainy Mondays are exhausting, rainy Tuesdays are monotonous, and rainy Wednesdays are relieving. But rainy Sundays are perhaps the strangest of them all, a simultaneous state of serenity and sorrow. And this rainy Sunday was no different. It had only been a short while after we had moved to Round Rock from Dallas, and it felt like an eternity and a short second all at once. As familiar I felt with my friends’ faces, I…

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    In the novella Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck takes readers back to the great depression. During this time, around the 1930s, people had to go from farm to farm to make enough money to survive. Many people traveled from job to job alone, never making friends or having the chance to talk to anyone. Steinbeck’s characters show how this affected them and how they wanted to make friends, and get out of the isolation people had put them in. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck claims that isolation can…

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    Of Mice and Men Compare and Contrast Essay Katherine Polgar p.2 In the 1937 classic, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck dealt with the concepts of human nature, dreams, loneliness, and solitude. The story of Lennie Smalls and George Milton told the unfortunate story of best friends in a hard time, the Great Depression. When this moving story was brought to the big screen it lost some of the most compelling aspects but kept the same touching and intriguing story. In the 1992 rendition of…

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    The Power of Loneliness The Great Depression was an era of hardship for many, and kept several people from accomplishing even the most basic goals and dreams. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck tells a story of two friends, George Milton and Lennie Small, and their search for a better life in rural California. George, a smart but small and wiry laborer, and Lennie, a giant man who is mentally challenged, take jobs bucking barley on a large ranch outside of Salinas and try to save money to…

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    involved in the novel are Tim Joad, Jim Casy, Pa Joad, Ma Joad, and Rose of sharon. This novel is to be well known for the significance and important moments that are mentioned throughout the novel in America. This novel was constructed during the Dust Bowl era and the Great Depression and also remained to be connected because of the impoverished economic period that U.S. has been dealing with over the century. The novel illustrates how a small farming family known as the Joads, they experience…

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    bigger or to get out. Farmers who didn 't own the land they farmed – known as tenants – were often "tractored out, due to the more production of land and tractors. This was taking in the dust bowl era of the great depression. I chose to incorporate this into my lessons to show the hardship of jobs, land and the dust…

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    Loneliness is the sadness resulting from being isolated or abandoned. Being lonely is almost always directly connected to relations between people. In the novella Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, loneliness is a recurring theme especially at the time this novella is taken place - 1930s The Great Depression. All the characters present have experienced loneliness whether in the beginning of the novel, or towards the end. With the era and setting this story is taking place in, Steinbeck portrays…

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    Of Mice and Men was written in 1937 during the Great Depression. This time period marked when the stock market crashed in 1929, leaving everyone with little food, and no money. Author John Steinbeck, writes about the lives of migrant farm workers who had to constantly travel from place to place in order to feed themselves during the Great Depression. Migrant farm workers usually traveled on their own, granted it was much easier. In his novella, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses Candy, Curley’s…

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    John Steinbeck’s novel ’Of Mice and Men’ is a novel expressing, discrimination sacrifices and most of all Loneliness and Dreams. As loneliness is a major theme in the’ Of Mice and Men’ novel it is clear to the readers that the majority of the characters feel that way. Set in the 1937 America, Salinas California, which is when The Great Depression happened, it tells the story of two ranch farmers set on a journey to find a new farm. They had to get away from the previous life they were living as…

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