Randy Quaid

The situation with old Candy made George realize what he had to do, and that was killing his best friend. That and the many references Steinbeck made about Lennie being an animal. First of all, there could be numerous reasons as to why George killed Lennie, one of those being Candy. In the book, Of Mice and Men, (1975), Candy’s dog is very old, virtually as old as Candy himself. The men of the ranch persuaded Candy to let Carlson shoot the dog. Soon after, Candy admits he regretted it, “I…

In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, there are two men named Lennie and George. George is portrayed as a leader and a caregiver for Lennie who is mentally ill and childlike. Lennie ends up being shot in the back of the head, because of his careless actions. Lennie was careless by killing animals all the way up to killing an innocent life. When Lennie started killing mice,George did not think anything of it because he knew Lennie did not mean to. Lennie then killed a puppy, and…

I read “ Cracker the Best Dog in Vietnam” by Cynthia Kadohata this book’s genre is Historical fiction. In this book a feisty German Shepherd named Cracker gets sent to the military to become a bomb sniffing dog because her owners can’t take care of her anymore. Rick is a guy from a small town in Minnesota, he decided to join the army to prove to his family that he was more than what they thought. Rick is partnered up with Cracker who at first was stubborn didn’t listen to ANY of Rick’s commands…

Of Mice and Men is all about the pursuit of happiness. Lenny and George are paired as friends traveling together. Each represents a different view of the same situation. They are both workers during a time period called “The Dust Bowl”. Each of them is looking for comfort in this time. Lenny, who is mildly mentally challenged, finds comfort is soft things such as a dead mouse in his pocket that he can pet occasionally. George finds comfort in his dreams of the future; a farm, a family and…

The Rabbits Written by John Marsden and illustrated by Shaun Tan, 'The Rabbits' is an allegorical tale of colonisation. First published in 2000 by Lothian Books, the book parallels the real life happenings of the British invasion and colonisation of Australia and the effects on the Indigenous Australians. Tan's illustrations open his audience's eyes with his peculiar, bold, semi-abstract style that conveys the anxiety and bewilderment of the possums as they bear witness to the mass destruction…

American Dream: the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. As prodigious as that sounds, that dream cannot always be fulfilled. The American Dream is fantasized by predominantly lower class workers to mislead themselves into thinking that they can reach any goal that they set for themselves. In the novel, Steinbeck uses this delusion in the novel, Of Mice and Men, to distract the characters…

Of Mice and Men- Dreams “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality,” said John Lennon, the lead singer and songwriter for the Beetles. Sometimes dreams can be harder to believe when they aren 't shared, but if you share them with someone close to you they can be more comforting and convincing. The novel Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck and the song “Let Me Take You There”, by the Plain White T’s both send a powerful message about having a dream and pursuing…

Victimization of the Impotent Through utilization of the character Lennie Small, John Steinbeck exhibits the susceptibility of the weak to be preyed upon by those with power in his novella Of Mice and Men. Lennie, an ungainly, childlike migrant ranch worker in Soledad, California, harbors a mild mental disability. Owing to this lack of intellectual capacity, Lennie subsists utterly on the counsel and aegis fellow nomadic ranch worker George Milton provides. Blatantly naive and gentle, Lennie is…

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light” -Helen Keller. “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck reveals the hardships of being a migrant worker in the 1930s. The characters George and Lennie are moving along from job to job and because of Lennie’s mental disorder it is difficult to keep one. In “Of Mice and Men,” Steinbeck uses the characters George, Lennie, Candy, and his dog to develop the big ideas of friendship and guilt. Good friends will do anything for…

Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, has an unwavering popularity even in today’s world because the novel expresses the American dream. Even back in the 1930’s, people had always had the thought of having their own place to call home. Crooks, the stable hand, expressed his feelings about how he has “seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’…every damn one of ‘em’s got a little piece of land in his head.” No matter what age period you’re from…