Randy Quaid

One theme that was found in the book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck is even though you may love someone very much you have to do what is best for them and others. In Of Mice and Men the two main characters are Lennie and George. Lennie is a very big guy and does not know his own strength, George is a smaller guy and Lennie looks up to George. Lennie has a mental disability, so George has to look after Lennie. They have to move around places because Lennie is always getting into trouble. In…

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, a tale set in the Great Depression. The novel teaches you the importance of friends, importance about the need for sacrifice, and about the importance of dreams. George and Lennie were like best buds and they helped each other through thick and thin. Well, Lennie did something really bad. I agree that George did the right thing by shooting Lennie. He made the process quick and painless, Lennie died happily, and he didn’t want to let Lennie be by himself in the…

[Lennie] said gently, “George… I ain’t got mine. I musta lost it.’ He looked down at the ground in despair. “You never had none, you crazy bastard. I got both of ‘em here. Think I’d let you carry your own work card?” Lennie grinned with relief. (Steinbeck 5). This book is called “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck and takes place in the 1930’s on a ranch. The book “Of Mice and Men” has many characters with impairments. Some of the characters with disabilities are Curley, Crooks, Candy, and…

Everyone has dreams, a place they want to be, a life they want to live. When I look at John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men I notice the use of dreams throughout the novel. John Steinbeck uses the motif of dreams in Of Mice and Men as an expression of hope, a contrast of reality and comfort. Dreams are used in Of Mice and Men to give characters comfort and a sense of safety. Lennie is comforted by the dream George has told him so many times. “We’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and…

“Of Mice and Men” was a 1992 American period drama film based on a book, “ Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck in 1937. Both the book and movies portrays a story go George Milton and Lennie Smalls, two displaced migrant ranch workers, moving from place to place in California during the Great Depression in search of a new job. The similar themes of mercy killing and communism were apparent in both the movie and the book. Although the movie and book can be looked as similar, there are a…

In the book Of Mice and Men, there are two characters Lennie, and George, who are on their way to their new jobs but on the way they run into some technical difficulties. When they arrive at their new job their boss shows them around and tells them what they are supposed to do around here. After that, they start meeting the other workers and start to find out that the boss’s son and his wife are very interesting people that don't get along with the workers Lennie Small is a tall,buff, hard…

From the first look, there seems to be little to no justice in Steinbecks' novella Of Mice and Men. Set on a ranch in Weeds during the Great Depression, Steinbeck portrays a simplistic Lennie and a well defined George, who seem to depend on each other in certain ways. Lennie is seen as having the mental capacity of a child, but he makes mistakes by harming creatures; human and animal alike. Steinbeck seems to have slipped in more morals in the story than at first glance. Steinbeck introduces…

Do you have people in your life that influence you and complete you? “Of Mice and Men,” a story written by John Steinbeck, relates to such relations. John Steinbeck was an incredible writer who has written many amazing novels. Steinbeck originally began at Stanford University as he was studying marine biology, but after a while he dropped out to become a writer. One of his novels, “Of Mice and Men” takes places during the Great Depression and presents the difficulties of finding a job in…

The emotional story of George and Lennie in “Of Mice and Men” is one of loneliness and the infamous search for the American dream. Author John Steinbeck makes a very serious statement about loneliness and how it cripples and drains the citizens of the world during the great depression of the 1930s. To help illustrate Steinbeck’s statement about loneliness, the theme can be explored in a multitude of ideas resent in the text. How loneliness is the driving force for the plot in “Of Mice and Men”…

How does a story about the friendship of two workers end with one killing the other in the end? Does author John Steinbeck leave clues throughout the story to foreshadow the death of Lennie Small, and many other events that occur during the novel? The story Of Mice And Men tells the tale of migrant workers George Milton and Lennie Small, and their experiences working on a ranch in the Salinas Valley. In the story, John Steinbeck does a marvelous job foreshadowing the events that will occur so…