Homeless Adults In Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Similarities between Lennie and mentally ill homeless adults are deserving more attention. Some nights, the mentally ill are struggling to find themselves a home. In Of Mice and Men, Lennie needs George to take care of him, and finds him a place to sleep and eat. In the movie they portrayed Lennie to be bossed around by George, but knew he couldn’t live by himself. They had to move to a different place because of Lennie’s actions that he could have left him anytime. George said “God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want”(Steinbeck 11). Lennie wanted to be accepted by George, and didn’t like it when George got angry. George make it sound like Lennie is a burden to him. Lennie is someone that doesn’t know what is going on, and when Lennie gets scared his strength leads to bad situations. Lennie always said “ Well, I could. I could go off into the hills there. Some place I’d find a cave”(Steinbeck 12)
They are being neglected out in the streets with no food or shelter. Communities are setting framework to help the mentally ill homeless. The lack of interest that the mentally ill challenge with makes it difficult to help. Now, We are finding psychiatric services to prove that it’s not impossible to help them(Melamed 1). The mentally ill are avoiding to go to the hospital thinking they can handle themselves. When the mentally ill go to the hospital they have to recognize that the patient is also homeless. Mental illness lead them there because they can’t handle being by themselves. Tel Aviv is Israel’s largest urban city taking in 150 homeless to take care for their mental disability( Melamed 1). They are given the full psychiatric examination when they get brought