Ranch

There is nothing greater than helping your grandparents on their large ranch in the middle of Kansas. That was what I was thinking as I hopped on my grandmother Patrice’s horse named Watermelon. My mother told me, my grandparents owned a gigantic ranch, so I instantly wanted to come out and help them and learn how to care for cattle.. They had a bunch of cattle on their farm that they have to care for everyday. My mother decided to have me assist them with caring for their animals. Once I…

does not love entirely. He is said to be cruel and jealous, wary of everything she does, along with the ranch hands (Hollister, 2015). In the end, Curley’s wife was unable to have her dreams. Not only does the movie star she once wanted to marry move on and leave her, a series of other events happen. Her acting and star life failed her, and she ended up marrying Curley. Being stuck on this ranch, she dreams of not being lonely. The men she tries to talk to do not misinterpret her desires, and…

began going around the ranch a day before we went hunting, we looked around to see where the biggest deer’s were located. We tested and align the rifles, to leave everything prepared to go hunting the following day at dawn. We were very positive that we were going to be lucky enough to hunt a big trophy deer, tough the results we had were never crossed our minds. Our hope for a good hunt was increased because we saw that many family members had already hunted deer in our ranch, we knew that…

“They left all the weak ones here,” she said finally. (Steinbeck 77) The story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck takes place on a ranch in the 1960’s where two guys travel around together working. In the story, several of the characters have deficiencies that hold them back, examples are that Candy is missing his right hand, Crooks has a crooked back, and Lennie is mentally challenged. There are a variety of impairments in the story, as George not getting his dream house due to Lennie, Crooks…

Discrimination has been an issue for a very long time. People today still discriminate against people based on their gender, age, race, and abilities. In 1937, when John Steinbeck wrote Of MIce and Men, discrimination was very real. The story takes place during the Great Depression, which many people were poor and had to look for work. A lot of the workers were often discriminated against. At the farm, when all of the workhands left to go to Susy's place, they left the most discriminated people…

Lennie Smalls is a character in John Steinbeck's novella, Of Mice and Men, who is just like any other person on the ranch, searching for his American Dream. Although, for Lennie and many others, achieving this dream will be impossible. Lennie is a mentally handicapped outcast that is constantly dehumanized by being compared to that of an animal. The author describes him as a man with a “shapeless face” who “drags his feet like a bear drags his paws” . Throughout the entire novella he is…

Crooks is a victim of racial discrimination. Throughout the book, Crooks was derogatorily called by the other characters as the “nigger”. The other ranch hands apparently view African Americans as inferior, hence the derogatory name. He also lives in the harness room, while the others live in the bunk house. The physical isolation Crooks faces suggests he is treated unfairly simply due to his race.…

means, as all the workers living on the ranch try to take power over each other, sometimes discriminating someone and try to take them out. Lennie who is mentally slow, Crooks who is African-American, and Candy who is elderly, represent the victims of discrimination in society, being…

them. But sometimes not everyone has that friend and can sometimes be really down in the dumps all the time, well in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men; Crooks, Curley's wife, and Candy are all lonely on the ranch, they tell us how their lives could have been different if they never came to the ranch, and how their dreams were destroyed. Crooks is the black man that lives in the barn with all the animals. He is probably one of the loneliest characters in the book, he doesn’t want anyone around…

characters that really represent the pain of loneliness. Crooks arguably is the most separated or isolated character on the ranch. This is further supported when Crooks says to Lennie, “‘cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black” (Steinbeck 68). Back in the time of Of Mice and Men, African Americans were still being segregated especially on a ranch full of white men. Having only himself to talk to is probably lonely so when he says…