Of Mice and Men Importance of Friendship George and Lennie By vcxzasd
The Importance of Friendship in Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men is a book about two men and their struggle to achieve
their dream of owning a farm through their companionship. The two men
are completely different, one being a retarded fellow(Lennie), and the
other, a typical ranch hand(George) who travels with him. On the path
to achieving their dream, they run into obstacles, but stick together,
stressing the importance of true friendship. Steinbeck wrote this book
to tell us how important it is to have a friend to share your life
with.
The book starts off set in Soledad, which, when translated into English
means "lonely". But when Lennie and George are together, they are
anything but lonely. They share a friendship so great that if either
person dies, or both are separated, they other could not survive.
Their friendship is a true one, where they share their lives together,
benefitting from each others company. "Guys like us, that work on
ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family.
They don 't belong no place. They come to a ranch an ' work up a stake
and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing
you know they 're pounding in ' their tail on some other ranch. They
ain 't got nothing to look ahead to....With us it ain 't like that. We
got a future. We got somebody to talk to that give as a damn about
us. We don 't have to sit in no bar room blow in ' in our jack jus '
because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail
then can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us. But not us!
An ' why? Because.....because I got you to look after me, and you got
me to look after you, and that 's why."(p.13-14) Because of the extent
of Lennie and George 's friendship, they go beyond the mere sharing of
words. George and Lennie share a dream of owning a farm, due to their
friendship
Of Mice and Men is a book about two men and their struggle to achieve
their dream of owning a farm through their companionship. The two men
are completely different, one being a retarded fellow(Lennie), and the
other, a typical ranch hand(George) who travels with him. On the path
to achieving their dream, they run into obstacles, but stick together,
stressing the importance of true friendship. Steinbeck wrote this book
to tell us how important it is to have a friend to share your life
with.
The book starts off set in Soledad, which, when translated into English
means "lonely". But when Lennie and George are together, they are
anything but lonely. They share a friendship so great that if either
person dies, or both are separated, they other could not survive.
Their friendship is a true one, where they share their lives together,
benefitting from each others company. "Guys like us, that work on
ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family.
They don 't belong no place. They come to a ranch an ' work up a stake
and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing
you know they 're pounding in ' their tail on some other ranch. They
ain 't got nothing to look ahead to....With us it ain 't like that. We
got a future. We got somebody to talk to that give as a damn about
us. We don 't have to sit in no bar room blow in ' in our jack jus '
because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail
then can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us. But not us!
An ' why? Because.....because I got you to look after me, and you got
me to look after you, and that 's why."(p.13-14) Because of the extent
of Lennie and George 's friendship, they go beyond the mere sharing of
words. George and Lennie share a dream of owning a farm, due to their
friendship