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Of Mice and Men Essay
By: David Whisel In the story Of Mice and Men many characters break social conventions with each other. Comparing Lennie and Montresour the both of them can be unpredictable. Each one has a different belief system. How this comparison is shown is how I believe they broke social conventions in favor of their own ideas
Lennie did many things to break his social norms. His best friend George would lie to people all the time about him being kicked in the head by a horse when he was a boy and now he wasn’t right in the head. Lennie had his problems with panicking and accidently killing things. When George and Lennie first got the hit of a new job and they were on their way there they stopped at a river bank. George knowing when Lennie was doing something he shouldn’t ask him what was in his pocket. Lennie had a mouse in his pocket stroking its head, talking about how soft it was. In many different occasions he did this. Towards the end of the story he ended up killing one of Slims puppies while stroking it. Lennie spoke to it about how soft it was and that is was bigger than a mouse.
When Curley’s wife enters the picture and lets Lennie touch her hair it ends with Lennie holding on to dear life panicking. Every time a mouse tried to bit his finger he would kill it by shear instinct and reflexes. He broke social conventions by having a pet mouse in his pocket and petting it while the animal was dead. It was not normal to have a pet mouse near or in a person’s house.
Harrison Bergeron lived his short life believing in overthrowing the government.
In his world not one person would think of taking off their handicaps and risking being fined and thrown in jail. Harrison wanted to define the government and become the intense man that we all know and love. The seven foot giant wanted to be known on national television and to tell everyone in America about how terrible Diana Moon Glampers was. The norm was to never talk back to
By: David Whisel In the story Of Mice and Men many characters break social conventions with each other. Comparing Lennie and Montresour the both of them can be unpredictable. Each one has a different belief system. How this comparison is shown is how I believe they broke social conventions in favor of their own ideas
Lennie did many things to break his social norms. His best friend George would lie to people all the time about him being kicked in the head by a horse when he was a boy and now he wasn’t right in the head. Lennie had his problems with panicking and accidently killing things. When George and Lennie first got the hit of a new job and they were on their way there they stopped at a river bank. George knowing when Lennie was doing something he shouldn’t ask him what was in his pocket. Lennie had a mouse in his pocket stroking its head, talking about how soft it was. In many different occasions he did this. Towards the end of the story he ended up killing one of Slims puppies while stroking it. Lennie spoke to it about how soft it was and that is was bigger than a mouse.
When Curley’s wife enters the picture and lets Lennie touch her hair it ends with Lennie holding on to dear life panicking. Every time a mouse tried to bit his finger he would kill it by shear instinct and reflexes. He broke social conventions by having a pet mouse in his pocket and petting it while the animal was dead. It was not normal to have a pet mouse near or in a person’s house.
Harrison Bergeron lived his short life believing in overthrowing the government.
In his world not one person would think of taking off their handicaps and risking being fined and thrown in jail. Harrison wanted to define the government and become the intense man that we all know and love. The seven foot giant wanted to be known on national television and to tell everyone in America about how terrible Diana Moon Glampers was. The norm was to never talk back to