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The novel we are reading is Of Mice and Men. The theme of friendship has been shown throughout this novel it is shown by how George and Lennie look out for eachother. Lennie may get on George’s nerves but they will always be there for each other. Like for exmple, when Lennie wanted a puppy George said he would get him one if only he would take care of it. Lennie ended up getting his puppy. I think the quote “friendship is necessary for human survival” relates to George and Lennie. I think that…

In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, two ranch hands named Lennie and George are looking for work in California during the 1930’s. The story focuses on the unusual friendship between these two ranch hands. Their friendship is so strange because of the striking dissimilarities in the two characters. However, they both share the same dream: buying a plot of land together. George is independent and intelligent, and he dreams of buying a plot of land. George dreams of purchasing a…

Hopelessness, you’ve heard of it, but do you really understand the feeling? In Of Mice and Men, a novel of two men who travel and work together, there is a sense of hopelessness when George and Lennie share their dreams with a few other people they encounter, they (the people) express their feeling of hopelessness towards that dream. George and Lennie though aren’t discouraged until the very end when everything goes wrong. Steinbeck develops the feeling of hopelessness in the novel in many ways.…

John Steinbeck makes many of his characters pure archetypes in the book Of Mice and Men. In the book Of Mice and Men, Lennie is constantly forcing George to move from town to town and George can not settle down and make a life for himself. George is constantly telling Lennie about the dream that they both have, which is to have their own small farm with animals that they can tend to. Many people today have dreams that help drive themselves to work hard and save up their earnings. Slim is the…

Fear of the Unknown Of Mice and Men Have you ever been treated unjustly because of a simple yet uncontrollable trait you possess? Unfortunately, treating people differently because of their unconventional attributes is a common theme in the novel Of Mice and Mice by John Steinbeck. The other characters' inexcusable actions towards Curley's wife, Lennie and Crooks confirm that people are afraid of what they do not understand. To begin, Curley's Wife is the only woman on the ranch and she is…

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck was about two guys named George Milton and Lennie Small who were looking for jobs during the time of the Great Depression. The Great Depression gives imagery that people lost their jobs during the time the stock market crash, so they had to move around for jobs because they wanted a better job so they would make more money and then survive the Great Depression. George and Lennie moving from job to job (place to place) can be applied in life because in order to…

Two men traveling together is unlike men of the 1930’s. In John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men, two main characters, George Milton and Lennie small balance each other out in the differences of strength, the way they view each other, and their thinking ability. They have many differences, but they both share the dream of having and living on their own farm. Lennie and George balance each other out in the aspect of strength. Lennie is bigger and much stronger than George, and the rest of…

Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck is about two homeless men named Lennie Small and George Milton. I am rating this book fair because I had some problems with some specific topics, however the overall story was good. The problems I had with the book includes some uninteresting side characters, a bad ending, and the book does a bad representation of real people and real judgement. Of mice and men has some interesting side characters with little to no use in the overall story. These characters…

The novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck takes place in California around the time of the great depression in the 1930’s. This novel is about two migrant farm workers, George Milton and Lennie small, which teaches a dark lesson about a human’s nature. In the end, George is faced with an unthinkable act that he is forced to do as a result of Lennie’s incapability to realize his own strengths and weaknesses. The novella’s main themes are the impossibility of achieving the American Dream…

Of mice and man gives a us an overview of George and Lennie’s unconditional friendship in a time when everybody was lonely and lacking of true emotions. This two friends travel and overcome obstacles together. They talk excitedly about a dreamed place for themselves where they don’t have to depend on anybody, but somehow it seems impossible to get there. John Steinbeck’s story mainly focuses in George and Lennie’s friendship. But also, in the solitude of men who lived in the 1930s during the…