what we could become.” Sacrifice is a universal concept and struggle humans have to endure from birth to death. In John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men‚ he uses the literary devices of symbolism and imagery to illuminate the lesson of sacrifice‚ and how we must endure momentary suffering for the greater good of others as well as personal development. In Of Mice and Men‚ Steinbeck writes about Lennie Small and George Milton‚ two companions living in the era of the dust bowl. Additionally‚ Lennie
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TITLE AND AUTHOR Title-Of Mice and Men Author-John Steinbeck HISTORICAL DATE THE BOOK WAS PUBLISHED Date-February 6‚ 1937 LIST OF THE MAJOR CHARACTERS George Milton-Lennie’s “cousin”/caretaker‚ clever/responsible/loyal‚ migrant worker‚ wants to start own farm‚ forced by circumstance to kill Lennie Lennie Small-big/strong‚ ignorant of own abilities‚ mentally disabled‚ depends on George‚ ultimately kills what he loves-mice‚ puppies‚ Curley’s Wife‚ dreams Slim-jerkline skinner/top hand‚ wise/experienced
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Of Mice and Men is a story about the failure of the American dream.The main characters’ troubles can be compared to those of mice‚ which explains the title. Robert Burns’ poem‚ "To a Mouse" also can help to clarify the title. It contains the quotation: "The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men‚ Gang aft agley" ("often go awry"). In fact‚ this quote is the reason John Steinbeck chose Of Mice and Men as the title. There is more that Burns poem has in common with Of Mice and Men aside from the relation
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Of Mice and Men Draft In the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck‚ loneliness is portrayed in many ways and contributes to many of the characters reasons for being who they are and the way that they behave. I will talk about how the 1930’s great depression contributed to making the characters have a sense of loneliness and how these people dealt with loneliness in different ways. Loneliness is the feeling of isolation and no hope or dreams in your life-which is what Steinbeck achieves by portraying
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John Steinbeck  O’Connor Pd 3 Nick Marks 5/7/13 Steinbeck as an author always seemed to have a niche for writing stories that made you think about the importance of life. Respect for life was highlighted in his stories many times‚ whether it’s the presence of or the lack of. A few stories that involved this were The Pearl‚ Of Mice and Men and Travels with Charlie. He knew how to tug on peoples heart strings and make them really think about what life truly means to us even after we close
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“Of Mice And Men” is a novel was written by John Steinbeck. It was published by Pascal Covici back in 1937. Steinbeck is an American author who has won a Nobel Prize for his writing in 1962. He was born on February 27‚ 1902‚ in the Salinas Valley. When Steinbeck was a child‚ he would observe the poor migrant workers traveling for work to try and earn a living. That’s what inspired him to write “Of Mice and Men” as a book and play. The book is about two migrant workers‚ George Milton and Lennie Small
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Steinbeck creates sympathy in Of Mice and Men. Discuss in relation to one character Of Mice and Men is a novella set on a ranch in the Northern western state of California written by Californian novelist John Steinbeck and then published in the late 1930’s. Set in the time of The Great Depression and The nationwide effective Wall Street Crash the book features characters all around who have depressing lives but focusing in on two paradoxical characters that are always juxtaposed to one another
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Night by Elie Wisel and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck are both books that have differences and similarities in the relationships of their main characters. These characters are Elie and his father‚ which are two Jews trapped in a concentration camp for the book Night. The other book Of Mice and Men includes two other characters‚ who are Lennie and George. These two characters have very close friendship‚ and take care of each other. These two relationships differ and coincide‚ in how they treat
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Of Mice and Men follows the “unlikely pair” George and Lennie as they “cling together in the face of loneliness and alienation” in the 1930’s (Steinbeck‚1937). Like most single men during the economically struggling 1930s‚ both were migrant laborers in the American west vegetable fields‚ with other laborers‚ as they work hard to earn enough money to achieve their dream of being independent and owning an acre of land and a shack (Steinbeck‚ 1937). However‚ to other laborers
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John Steinbeck was the 1962 Nobel Prize Winner and in his speech he had many connections to one of his famous books‚ Of Mice and Men. He talked about the hard times that humanity had faced such as the Great Depression‚ World War 2‚ Korean war‚ and Civil Rights movements. In these times humans started to do non human like things to survive. Steinbeck has lived through both the highs and lows of humanity‚ and the time between the publishment of the book Of Mice and Men to the acceptance of his Nobel
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