Changes In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Change is inevitable. It is only natural. Nothing stays the same; the Earth doesn’t stay in the same position - it is constantly moving, people change their views as they grow up and with time, society is always changing. However, some things stay similar and we leave traces of the past. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck was written in 1937. It talks about two very different men, George and Lennie, who have hopes and dreams: to own a land and a shack. In order to achieve that, they had to go around searching for jobs. The job they landed on was at a ranch. When they got accepted, they realised that their dream was within their grasp and saw it becoming a reality. There, they meet different people but they find themselves in trouble
This is one of the biggest themes discussed in Of Mice and Men, and though there was only one character that belonged in the POC group, Steinbeck successfully showed how blacks were treated unfairly and immorally in the past. In the novel when Crooks, the black stable buck was first mentioned, Candy said “the boss gives him hell when he’s mad”. (pg. 20) This goes to show how people treat blacks unfairly – the boss takes out his anger on him instead of the other boys because he is black. This shows the dominance white people have and having white privilege. White privilege does exist, even though white people do not necessarily enjoy or do it on purpose. A real situation of white privilege in today’s world is when twin brothers, who are Caucasian, blew up several structures and was charged with arson by explosion, arson by possession of explosive devices, conspiracy, theft, and other unnamed charges. They were both released on a twenty-five thousand dollars bond. A black teenager smashes a car window and was bonded with half a million dollars. This is having an advantage in which they have more authority than other minorities and is easier to get out of risky situations because they were born white and having a lack of melanin