Men of War

In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, there is one friendship that stands out throughout the novel. George Milton and Lennie Small display a picture of what friendship looks like to everyone they come across throughout the story. Their friendship has strengths and weaknesses. It also came at a cost to each of them while being friendless came at a different cost. George and Lennie show the readers that friendship is costly and can cause hurt but is worth it. George and Lennie became friends…

“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck is set in Northern California during the Great Depression, around 1930’s. The main characters, George and Lennie, illustrate the American struggles throughout the great Depression, financially, socially but mostly discrimination. While focusing on the struggles of these times, the theme of this book consists from an exaggeration of total inequality of power between race, with Crooks being segregated and being treated differently because of his skin color, age,…

Throughout a story, characters develop and face their fears and difficulties and overcome them over time. Sometimes the characters make the decision to confront their fears, but most of the time the plot of the story forces them to. The novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon is no exception to this. Christopher, a fifteen-year-old with Asperger’s, confronted his fears and learned to cope with his difficulties as he tried to solve the murder of his neighbor’s dog.…

Upon first impression, Curley’s wife, Crooks , and even the innocent Lennie are viewed as rather mean or insensitive characters in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Whether it be Curley’s wife belittling various ranch hands, Crooks scaring Lennie into believing his best friend, George, has died, or Lennie killing countless animals and even another person, it is understandable to develop a conclusion that these figures in the novel are simply rude people. However, analyzing the text and motives…

bothered by the outside world, the character Lennie, from the book ‘Of Mice and Men,” was also regarded with similar contempt and scorn, from those of society. In the poem ‘To a Mouse,’ the mouse represents Lennie from the book “Of Mice and Men.” As was the narrator, or speaker in the poem, representing George, as well as the men spoken about in the poem, were almost in direct reference to the men depicted in “Of Mice and Men.” The poem also depicts and illustrates some paramount, crucial…

With very little investigation, one may think “The Lightning-Rod Man,” written in 1853 by Herman Melville, is a simple story about a man selling lightning rods who hopes people’s desire to stay safe during a storm and the closeness of the storm will help him in trying convince people to buy his product. Upon further investigation, I do not believe Melville meant for this story to just have one simple meaning. The complex style of writing leave many readers looking for more on what Melville means…

the world will end any minute. The Casual Vacancy mimics society by illustrating a small English town, Pagford, which is in shock after the death of Barry Fairbrother. Upon his death, what is supposedly a pretty town reveals itself to be a town at war with each other: those with privileges versus those without it, wives disagree with their husbands and teenagers plot against their parents. Now, the empty seat on the parish council, which Barry Fairbrother leaves, is the…

times was known as female hysteria. Which in today’s terms would have been some sort of depression or even stress related illness, but non-the less it was attributed as something that happened exclusively to women. In the defense, with examples, that men can also go through this, Kafka presented a symbolic way a male type hysteria. To explain a bit about the authors life, he was a sickly child that was rejected by his father. He wasn’t tall, masculine, or strong. Instead Kafka would read and…

If you ever had a choice of killing your best friend or letting them suffer from the bad choices they have made, what would you do? This is a very hard question to answer. In John Steinbeck´s story Of Mice and Men one of the main characters in the story, George, has a tough decision to make with his best friend, Lennie. Lennie has done a bad thing, and he has no way of getting out of it this time. Therefore, George has to decide between three choices. He could either leave Lennie for Curley,…

English essay Symbolism behind objects and their importance in describing Gregor, Grete and their relation The metamorphosis is a novel written by Franz Kafka and published in 1915. In this novel the author tells the story of Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman who lived with his family, and sustained financially till the day we woke up to realize he had transformed into a "monstrous vermin" . Gregor ends up dying due to starvation and he is thrown to the garbage. The cause of death of…