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In the novel of mice and men by John steinbeck he talks about loneliness and we'll he also talks about companionship, the novel of mice and men takes place in the 1930's at a ranch near a town called Soledad. In this novel we have many characters but we have two main ones which would be gorge and Lennie, they both have a really good friendship and they both help each other in different ways. In the book of Mice and men they show loneliness as bad thing, they try to show that having someone…

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mie and Men, George made the right decision in shooting Lennie because Lennie murdered Curly’s wife and George did it for good; however, others may believe that he did not make the right decision because George and Lennie were very good friends and they have a dream to own a ranch. George made the right decision in shooting Lennie because Lennie murdered Curly’s wife. “And then she was still , for Lennie had broken her neck” (Steinbeck 45). This quote proves that Lennie…

The great depression struck and damaged the lives of many, and in the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, two characters have experienced just that. These characters go by the names of Lennie Small and George Milton; they seek refuge from the situation that had gone on in their original town of Weed. They obtain a job on a ranch and seek to gain a stake as hefty enough to purchase land to start their dream of forming a ranch to work and live on. But Lennie's strength and unpredictable…

Is it morally right to kill someone? Could you do it? In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, there are two best friends: Lennie and George. The two men search for work in the depression of California. Lennie was a strong man, however, he had a mental disability that made it hard for him to think for himself and control his actions. George, on the other hand, was a mentally sharp person and had to act as a guardian figure for Lennie throughout the places that they’ve previously worked.…

You walk into a store and you see a chocolate bar that you want, but you’re 20 cents to short and you think man, i'm poor. Being in poverty is one of the things that actually inspired some of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories such as The Black Cat, Where in the story the narrator loses everything. Throughout his life he was struggling with this, but it wasn't the only thing that inspired his writing. Between madness and insanity, to all the death in his life and of love all had inspirations in some of…

Literary devices are used to create the idea of a futile existence in Of Mice and Men and The Yellow Wallpaper, specifically through the authors’ use of symbolism of colour. Steinbeck and Gilman also use the devices of dialogue and metaphor, which show that the hopes and dreams of the characters within both texts create the idea of a futile existence. The device of foreshadowing is used within Of Mice and Men to create the idea of existence being futile, and this is similar to the symbolism that…

Men, women, and children all have hopes and dreams. People set unattainable goals in which they hope to accomplish even though their hope of completing this goal can disappear in a matter of seconds. When we think about how tenuous dreams can be, we think about how much agony we go through when our dreams are shattered. Dreams are extremely delicate and we aspire to achieve them, even though they may be unattainable. In the tragic novella Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, Lennie, one of the…

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…

‘Of Mice and Men’ is written by John Steinback in 1937, when the American society is still recovering from the Great Depression. Through his minor characters, Steinback shows the fall of the American Dream, with prevalent discrimination, a lack of hope and low social mobility in the post-depression American society. First, Steinback’s minor characters and their dreams reflect the post-depression society’s lack of hope. When Lennie and Candy visit Crooks and talk about their dream, Crooks…

The title of the book Of Mice and Men comes from an 18th Century Robert Burns poem. The plot of this poem, according to Shmoop.com is “the speaker has accidentally turned up a mouse's nest with his plow. He pauses for a little rumination about how men and animals might seem different, but in the end, they're all mortal” This is a lot like a prevalent theme throughout one of Steinbeck's most famous stories. This theme of the reality of the American dream. In the story, almost every character has…