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attract. This is certainly the case in Steinbeck’s short novel, Of Mice and Men. In Of Mice and Men, the two main characters, George and Lennie, experience and see many opposites that do not attract, whether they are characters or the imagery of Salinas Valley in the Great Depression. Steinbeck uses those examples to reveal that opposites cannot make good and stable relationships. In the novella Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck conveys that opposites are not meant…

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the main characters, George and Lennie, travel to a ranch in Soledad, California, in order to find work during the Great Depression. Running from trouble up north in another place called Weed, they soon find that the new ranch they have arrived at holds just as many opportunities for things to go wrong. There, they meet three morose people who stand apart from the rest and are lonely because of it: Crooks, the crippled, black stable buck; Candy, the old…

John Steinbeck uses his experience working as a laborer in Salinas, California to write his novel Of Mice and Men, he shows the isolated and lonely lives of the ranchers in it. The characterization of migratory workers in the novel, such as Lennie Smalls and George Milton, Crooks, and numerous other men as wanting friendships and to escape their isolated lives, proves that even if a dream is shared by many it can still be impossible to attain. Migratory workers, like the men at the ranch, live a…

Throughout American history, millions of people around the world have abandoned their homeland for a change, to start a new life in a foreign country. The massive migrant flows had a direct relationship to the growth of the U.S Empire, whether it was through a political need to stabilize a neighboring country or an economic need such as the labor demands, the truth is the U.S’s ideologies and policies have shaped their connections with other countries. Constant body pain for low wages, horrible…

Sweat dripped down the men's backs as they struck their hoes through the brittle dirt. The hot sun and the cloudless skies beat down on the hard working men far below. The deafening roar of the plane engine above warned farm workers that the air is being sprayed with dangerous pesticides; their lungs and faces burn as they struggle to breathe in the air contaminated with the thick chemical poison. Without anyone advocating for the protection of these workers, they were mercilessly exploited by…

In the context of literature, an author can be influenced by what is happening in the world around them. For example, Jack London wrote stories that took place in Alaska based off of his time in Alaska, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his book The Great Gatsby based off of his experiences in New York circa 1920, and Mark Twain wrote his novels using the same settings as what he was accustomed to in Mississippi. John Steinbeck also fits into this statement, as he was influenced by the Great Depression…

who was previously sick, “was growing like a pole bean, and… began to train herself” (Steinbeck 44). Life is magical again in Cannery Row because of infectious happiness that began with Mack and the boys and ends all the way in “the County Jail in Salinas [with] Gay” (Steinbeck 157). Mack and the boys, much like sardines and tides which affect the environment, affect the community surrounding them for better or for worse. Along with…

I believe george did the right thing because lennie was a psychopath and no one one understood so he was afraid he was going to kill more people and also that when they killed lennie it would be a torturous death instead of a simple one. “She struggled violently under his heads. Her feet battered on the hay and she withered to be free; from under lennie's hand came a muffled screaming… And she continued to struggle, and her eyes were wild with terror.(91) He didn’t seem to understand that he was…

In John Steinbeck’s 1937 short story “The Chrysanthemums”, a women sets in her garden, fenced off to protect it from animals, while her husband stood with two business men. The men smoked cigarettes while they studied the little Fordson. The woman’s name is Elisa, she is described as “blocked and heavy”, and wearing a man’s hat, clodhopper shoes, and a figure printed dress mostly covered by an apron. The apron holding snips, the trowel and scratcher, seeds and a knife she worked with. Being a…

represents thirty-nine percent of the RN workforce, baby boomers thirty-two percent, and millennials twenty-six percent. It is estimated by 2020, the millennials will be fifty percent of the nursing work force (Douglas, Howell, Nelson, Pilkington, & Salinas, 2015, p. 11). Although each generation brings a specific skill set to team work in nursing, there is often conflicts between the generations due to misunderstandings and communication breakdowns that leads to poor patient outcomes, staff…