How Men Are

Although Lennie Small is the character most people think of whenever Of Mice and Men is mentioned, it is George Milton who is the true protagonist of the story. However, George Milton in the original text is not the classic “good guy.” His most notable flaw is his treatment of Lennie. George comes off as impatient and easily frustrated with Lennie, which raises the question if he merely puts up with Lennie or genuinely cares for him? In the 1992 film adaptation, there is no doubt that George…

How Powerful and Significant is The Death of Lennie in Of Mice and Men. Within the novel, ‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck, the build up to the shooting of Lennie small (one of the main characters in the novel) is significant because it has been led up to with the use of foreshadowing within the novel. The shooting of Lennie has four points to cover: Silence, Narrative Style, Syntax and Parallel with other characters. Silence is which is used throughout the book which is significant…

In "Of Mice and Men" it is very controversial when George kills Lennie. This is so because the controversial questions brought up is "Was Lennie's Death Justified as an Act of Mercy Killing?" In the book Lennie has an infatuation with soft objects. He has had many incidents where he has killed small animals such as a rabbit because he strangles them. He does so because he is obsessed with fluffy objects. This caused him to get kicked out of his old town of weed. Because of his infatuation with…

A book that has been significant to me is Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The book circles around two men and their adventures as field workers during the Great Depression. One of the men, George, is very intelligent but he is uneducated. The other man, Lennie, is very tall and strong but mentally disabled. They dream of having a piece of land together; Lennie wants to raise and care for rabbits on the land, because he likes touching soft things. Because of this, he often kills the animals he…

Discrimination is so bad it can even lead to death. The novel Of Mice and Men shows how radically lives can be affected by discrimination. It can change a person’s live completely upside down for the worse. Steinbeck uses discrimination to dramatically affect characters such as Lennie, Crooks, and Curley’s wife. To begin with, Lennie is treated completely differently because he is mentally challenged. George and Lennie are travelling to a ranch to find work when Lennie looks over to George…

In the novel of mice and men by John steinbeck he talks about loneliness and we'll he also talks about companionship, the novel of mice and men takes place in the 1930's at a ranch near a town called Soledad. In this novel we have many characters but we have two main ones which would be gorge and Lennie, they both have a really good friendship and they both help each other in different ways. In the book of Mice and men they show loneliness as bad thing, they try to show that having someone…

In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck many of the characters exhibit feelings of loneliness due to their age, situation, or race. The story is set during the Great Depression which was a time period in American history where unemployment was high and working men were forced to move across the States looking for job opportunities. Many men were not in a place long enough to form a bond to the place or the residents and despite this being a regular occurrence some never got used to being…

itself. For example someone, like the character Slim from Of Mice and Men, might have power or influence over others. That person’s power would be considered to be good or bad depending on how they use it. Everyone is associated with power weather it be they do not have power, they use their power responsibly, or they abuse it. The world is full of power-hungry people and it seems to be a race to get to the top. In Of Mice and Men the power struggle is between migrant workers on a California…

Steinbeck uses a lot of clever irony throughout the novel Of Mice and Men. The major irony in the book is that George kills Lennie because he wants to spare Lennie from dying a brutal death at the hands of Curley and the other ranch hands who are enraged over the death of Curley’s wife. Therefore, he selflessly does the terrible deed himself, as a merciful act to his friend. Ironically, George steals Carlson’s pistol which is the same pistol that killed Candy’s old dog in order to save it from…

Of mice and men was written by john Steinbeck and was based on the American society in the 1930’s. It is a novella about dreams, friendship and hope. These are the main and most important themes on of mice and men because each character experiences these in a different way. The title of mice and men was inspired by a poet called Robert burns who wrote of mice and men. Burns believed that ‘all the great plans of mice and men oft go awry’ and this means that no matter how well you plan for the…