Brother is accountable for Doodle’s death since he was warned by the doctors not to push him, but he disregarded it and tried to make him like a “normal” boy. As Brother thinks back to him and Doodle walking home from Old Woman’s Swamp, he confessed, “The faster I walked the faster he walked, so I began to run” (Hurst 394). Brothers walking pace displays how he walked faster, just to make Doodle walk faster. Since Brother did this he pushed Doodle too far, putting his life in danger. Brother teaches Doodle how to swim and row, he made Doodle “swim until he turned blue and row until he couldn’t lift an oar” (Hurst 391). Brother wants Doodle to learn faster, so he makes him practice heavily. If Doodle hadn’t of had the heart disabilities that…
Loneliness is presented in ‘of mice and men,’ in many ubiquitous forms. 2 characters, who are overly dominant in the world of loneliness, are George and Crooks. ‘We are the loneliest guys in the world.’ As this statement is said, the audience is under realisation of the true meaning behind the novella. As well as personal loneliness, there are forms of physical loneliness, such as the setting of the book, which takes place in a town, known as ‘Soledad,’ which ironically enough, is the Spanish word for ‘Solitude.’ The existence of loneliness outlines the engagements of the assorted characters in the book.…
The book 'Of Mice and Men' mainly illustrates the ranch life of Lennie and George and the conflicts between Lennie and other workers. The author uses details of their experience to demonstrate the helplessness and the powerlessness of the victims of the Great Depression and the falsity of American dream.…
From the early 1900’s, society has strictly judged people by the way they look or where they come from. We still see this act of judgement re-occur in this day and age, unfortunately. In the novella Of Mice and Men, we clearly see the cruel conditions and situations that occurred during the Great Depression. This fantastic novel showcases the lives of two migrant workers, George and Lennie, who struggle to find a job and the stereotypical judgements of Lennie who is mentally disabled. In their journey, this novella introduces many other archetypes for the minorities of that time period, including women, colored people, and the elderly. John Steinbeck shows his expertise of crucial literary devices like allusion, archetype, and foreshadowing to show how humans will treat specific categories of people that have disabilities that in the end affect their hopes and dreams in life.…
The book “Of Mice and Men” features great friendships and great rivalries. However, some of these people only desire the companionship of others. The two characters Crooks and Curley’s wife are the most desperate when it comes to the need of friendship, often resorting to even the most desperate of measures to get some of the attention they want. Crooks and Curley’s wife crave the attention of others, but are not able to achieve companionship.…
George is the second main character and one of the protagonist after Lennie in Of Mice and Men. When Lennie gets into trouble, He always helps him find a solution or get away, though Lennie’s size combined with his mental handicap caused problems frequently. He is also a planner, telling Lennie where he should go if there is trouble on the ranch. To make the dream which is owing a ten-acre farm becomes a reality, He’s competent to work hard. Unlike the other ranch hands that squander their money on women and drink, George refuses to spend a dime in vain, saving everything to make the dream happen. He wants to buy the farm so that he and Lennie can live there, free from problems and constraints caused by society.…
Both George and Lennie are introduced walking in ‘single file’ and ‘one stayed behind the other’. They both wear the same thing and had the same possessions. However, they are described to be opposite in looks. “Both were dressed in denim trousers and denim coats…Both wore black hats and carried tight blanket rolls.” “The first man was small and quick, dark, with restless eyes and sharp strong features… He was defined… small slender arms, thin bony nose.” “Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face with large pale eyes, wide sloping shoulders, walked heavily.”…
In Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the protagonists, George and Lennie have an ambitious dream that never comes true. Of Mice and Men was written through inspiration from a poem about dreams and how they often go awry. Steinbeck used the elements of that poem to make a detailed novella about the danger of setting one’s mind to one dream without any backup plan. Throughout the novella, Steinbeck attempts to tell readers that the American Dream is almost impossible to achieve and it is not worth setting one’s mind solely to that dream as people will discourage one and it will likely fall apart.…
Why does Steinbeck want us to know about companionship and aspirations through hard times? Why does he want us to see the importance of it? Steinbeck shows us three important themes - Dreams, Friendship and Hardship. Friendship, or companionship and being a friend to somebody is very important during times of hardship, or difficulty and also the presence of dreams and things that inspire the characters to get through the difficult times. The novella Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck in 1937, is a book about two very different but close pals. It follows them as they journey on as they travel through the everyday life at the ranch.…
A relationship is how two or more people are connected to one another. In an ideal relationship the people in it benefit from it but sometimes it's the exact opposite. Lennie, George, Curley, and his wife from Of Mice and Men by john Steinbeck along phineas and gene from A Separate Peace by John Knowles, give examples of a relationship and how the people in it affect one another. The book Of Mice and Men is about two men one of which deeply depends on the other. The book a separate peace is about two boys who are very different but still remain to be best friends. All these characters show how relationships can hinder a person from achieving their goals.…
Sympathy is everywhere. Whether it’s in movies or seeing someone go through something, you feel it. For example, in The Lion King when Simba’s dad dies, the audience feels sympathy. Even books with made-up characters makes the reader feel sympathy. In Of Mice and Men, a lot of characters have their own struggles, and some deserve more sympathy than others. Although Curley’s wife and George deserve the reader’s sympathy, Lennie is the most sympathetic character in the novel because he has a mental illness, gets shot, and some of the characters talk down to him because he’s not smart.…
In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Steinbeck uses the theme of loneliness throughout the entirety of the novel. When people feel lonely their way of life is different than that of someone's who isn't lonely or them if they were not lonely. They may act differently than they would if they weren't experiencing loneliness, they may even change their way of life. The effects of loneliness on people are displayed in the novel Of Mice and Men through the characters of Curley's Wife, Candy, and Crooks.…
Loneliness is the feeling of isolation and no hope or dreams in your life-which is what Steinbeck achieves by portraying this theme effectively through key fictional characters in Of Mice and Men. By living in the town of ‘Soledad’ (Spanish for loneliness), the audience gets an overwhelming sense of the depressing environment that the migrant farmers are living through by their repetitive lifestyle and the consequences they face through the Great Depression and the Dustbowl. Yet another aspect of loneliness which is exposed vulnerably through several characters is the idea of the American Dream, for Steinbeck teaches us that even through hard work and prosperity, it is unattainable which is represented by Curley’s wife, Crooks, Candy and George + Lennie. These personas are left in isolation for as George says that ‘Guys like us that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world. They don’t belong no place…’ which is to say that these characters have lost all hope in their lives, which Steinbeck conveys effectively, and the fact that despite this, they still believe there is hope to come for them, which leaves me to sympathise for them more.…
Loneliness is an experience that many people experience in their lives. In Of Mice and Men, Loneliness is a key factor in why many of the characters are characterized the way that they are. John Steinbeck makes most of the characters seem lonely. Most of the ranch hands travel alone except for of course George and Lennie. Crooks, the only African American on the ranch, is always in the barn away from the others, and is not allowed in the bunkhouse because the color of his skin. Old Candy, the oldest person on the ranch, experiences loneliness because his dog, his only companion, had just been shot. Candy’s wife, being the only woman on the ranch, is always seeking someone to talk to. A crippled African American that lives isolated from the others, an old swamper who just lost his companion forever, and the only woman on the ranch are all desperate to find someone to talk to, and suffer from an acute loneliness that leads to many different consequences.…
Friendship is something that everyone searches for, and George and Lennie have that. In the book of mice and men, the thing that made their friendship so great was that they took care of one another, they supported each other in striving for their dream, and that they make sacrifices for each other. George and Lennie’s relationship shows us the true meaning of friendship.…