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The novel Of Mice and Men is set in the Californian ranch land during the Great Depression, a time when hopelessness is common and many search for a way to make money. The two main characters, George and Lennie, make their way across California, in search of a job. They have big dreams and hopes that include acquiring their own farm and raising crops and livestock. Lennie is a big man with the mind of a child; he cannot comprehend much of what is going on around him, and he has a difficult time…

Of Mice and Men is a classic because it has withstood the test of time, keeping its ability to deliver it’s powerful messages. Classics are books that “exert a peculiar influence, both when they refuse to be eradicated from the mind and when they conceal themselves in the folds of memory, camouflaging themselves as the collective or individual unconscious”. Each time one rereads a classic they discover new things about about the book as if it is the first time. John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice…

Of Mice and Men there is great amount of sympathy about how the readers will feel pity amongst the different characters. There is pity against Lennie Small, Curley’s Wife and Crooks. Lennie Small has had struggles in his life about having a mental disability. Curley’s Wife has had struggles in her life about being mistaken for being someone they are not. Crooks has had struggles in his life about being an outcast because of his race. Lennie Small is the most sympathetic character in Of Mice and…

Loyalty Leads to Total Annihilation The word loyal is defined as being “faithful to any lender, party, or cause, or to any person or thing conceived as deserving fidelity” and often has a positive connotation supporting it. Nonetheless, the novel Of Mice and Men depicts the quality quite negatively through its two main characters. George Milton and Lennie Small, who have a tremendously strong father son relationship, constantly travel from place to place in order to keep the latter safe, as…

pain. This truth is made clear in Thomas Scarseth's excerpt "A Teachable Good Book: Of Mice and Men". In the excerpt, Scarseth states that Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a tragedy. The tragedy is the pain of living life and being defeated can be transformed into the beauty of art. With the book, Of Mice and Men, Scarseth established his opinion in three ways. The first claim was how the tragedy in Of Mice and Men is in a Shakespearean sense. His second claim is that tragedy is meant to…

Who is the loneliest character in 'of mice and men'. I think the loneliest character in 'of mice and men' is 'Crooks the stable-buck'. This character is a very lonely person and leads a very miserable life because of this making the reader feel sympathetic towards him. Crooks the stable-buck is lonely mainly because of his colour, there is a lot of racism at this point in history and black people were considered lower beings than white people and black people suffered greatly because of this and…

Of Mice and Men how hard life can be for different kinds of people. Of Mice and Men shows how hard “the American Dream” is to achieve, through the lives of George, Lennie, and Curly’s wife. George and Lennie plan to have their own land with rabbits. Lennie makes it hard for George to keep a job, therefore making it harder for George to get money for the land. Curly’s wife could have been a movie star but her mother stopped that from happening. Lennie does another bad thing, messing up…

The Effects of Discrimination Discrimination has been one of the world’s most colossal fights ever since a government had been started. Google defines discrimination as, “the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.” When you hear racism, sexism, and favoritism; these are all various forms of discrimination. One of the most common ways discrimination can be displayed is through the act of slavery and enslavement…

Naturalism. Naturalism is based on the idea that a person’s personality is derived as a product of their environment and there is no “free will”. The nature of the human relationship is guided by friendship and survival. In John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” the two main characters, George and Lennie have a relationship based on their instinct to survive and the pursuit of the American dream. Lennie and George dream of owning and living on a small piece of land they can call their own.…

In the book, “Of mice and men,” George is forced to make a tough decision at the end of the book; Run and potentially let Lennie suffer the consequences of his actions, or to simply put him out of his misery, and not suffer at all. George ended up making the decision to painlessly end the life of Lennie so he wouldn’t have to suffer from the potential consequences he would have to face if he were left alive. George made the wrong decision. Previously, the two were in a similar situation, and…