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Chloe Frichtl Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Warning: Spoilers Genre: Fiction Plot Summary: George and Lennie are two migrant workers that dream of having a farm. They are on the run in California because Lennie wanted to touch a girl’s dress (it was soft) and she accused him of harassing her. They go to a ranch and get jobs by telling the boss that Lennie is George’s cousin; he got kicked in the head by a horse when he was young and it’s why he’s so dumb. There, they meet Candy, the handyman…

In the 1900s, there was racism against colored men and women, and sexism towards all women. The reader will see these things in the story Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. During this novel, many characters face loneliness and discrimination. One will read the story and see that Curley’s wife, Crooks, and Candy all face the feeling of being discriminated and lonely. Curley’s wife is lonely because women in the early 1900s were counted as property, and could be told what to do without question.…

Mice and Men the importance dreams bring throughout this story can be a big one depending on how you look at it, every way has a different potential. Consider your dreams and how they affect your day to day living. “We’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we won't work, but we’ll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an’ listen to the rain comin’ down on the roof.” (Steinbeck 14) This is one example that shows how the men…

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…

quote puts it, “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible” (Christopher Reeve). However, in the thrilling story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the American Dream is crushed by reality. Making a point that life is hopeless. Showing more that, “hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments” (Friedrich Nietzsche). But throughout the book Of Mice and Men, there are characters clinging to it. What is so important about hope? By examining the characters hopes/dreams, the…

meeting them, she has a flirtatious demeanor and acts provocatively. Her body language suggests that she is seeking attention from the men, so that they will engage in conversation with her. Even though George shows no interest in talking to her, she continues to speak playfully, in a last effort to keep the conversation going. The lengths she goes to converse with the men demonstrates her loneliness. After being ignored…

Dead White Men John Steinbeck: best known for works such as The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck wrote about the everyman. He depicted struggling working-class people as well as different cultures and races as demonstrated in Tortilla Flat, a novel focusing on the Mexican-Indian countrymen. Steinbeck was a significant part of the Modernist movement in American Literature. His works often comment on social and economic events that were considered current at the time. His literature…

Everyone has been made fun of, teased, and hurt physically and emotionally in life before and Curley, the boss’ son is one of those people that does this to others. Many tragic events happen in the book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck. In Of Mice and Men Steinbeck explains how George and Lennie, migrant workers who moved from California to find jobs and own their own ranch during the great depression, and with the troubles of lennie being mentally handicapped, and many people getting…

look out for them. The desire for companionship not only exists in life but also literature as shown in the novella, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The novella, Of Mice and Men, conveys an idea that many migrant workers felt lonely and most of them wished for a companion. “A dog is a man’s best friend” is a quote known by most people and shows up in Of Mice and Men. One of the swampers on the farm, Candy has had his dog for a very long time and as a result the dog “is so God damn old he…

Of Mice and Men is a truly tear jerking story of the relationship of two men. Lennie, being slower than most, relies on someone to look out for him. George, Lennie's cousin, is a caretaker and friend to Lennie. The personalities shown through the book are similar to those in "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns. The mouse and man in "To a Mouse" are the foundation to Lennie and George's personalities and relationship in Steinbeck's novel. Steinbeck brings to view how an original work can be expanded…