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    Of Mice and Men is a popular short novel that was written in 1937 by the author John Steinbeck. The novella is about the story of two farmhands‚ George Milton and Lennie Small‚ who have dreams of one day owning their own farm. The motion-picture adaptation of Of Mice and Men‚ released in 1992‚ is very similar in most aspects; however‚ the endings of the book and movie differ from each other in a significant way. The ending of the novel Of Mice and Men includes a scene where George‚ after killing

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    Ran Guo Ms. Johnston 6th English Hopeless Ambitions The Pearl and Of Mice and Men‚ both parables by John Steinbeck‚ are stories with different themes. Yet despite the differences in the dreams and ambitions of Steinbeck’s protagonists‚ his characters all share the hardship of having the will of society pitted against them. George and Lenny‚ from Of Mice and Men‚ travel from place to place‚ wandering as vagrants and accepting whatever charity available. They hope to create a sanctuary to shield

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    “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck there was a strong bond between almost every character.For example George and Lennie were best buddies even if they went too far sometimes.But they would always have each other along each side. But both had lies happening through each others backs.So this all campares to the meaning of trusting is good but not trusting is much better. Many people trust many people‚ but in specific their friends just like George and Lennie from the novel‚ Of “Mice and Men” by John

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    The way the book’s literature was just a manner to express how people in the 1930’s lived. It’s a way to learn about a part of history. Foul words were used ‚and the author showed the setting during the time period in that way. People  wouldn’t be learning the truth if parts and details were left out. Everyone needs to learn to face the fact that our country wasn’t and isn’t perfect. That everything that occurred was wrong. Every type of speech can be used in the right and correct situation. Others

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    I think the Grand Jury should drop all charges brought upon George Milton. For the murder of Lennie‚ the charge is 1st degree murder. George‚ a friend of Lennie’s‚ obviously didn’t want his friend to be tortured and killed in a harsh manner which is why he chose to took the law into his own hands. Since Lennie is the cause of Curley’s wife’s death the ranch insisted on killing Lennie instead of prosecuting him. George decided the easiest way out of life would be a bullet to the back of the head.

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    When they first meet‚ the protagonist thinks that she doesn’t “know why she bothered talking to him” (Para. 25). Why does she talk to Lenny? When they first meet‚ the protagonist thinks that she doesn’t know why she bothered talking to him because Lenny represents addiction in her life‚ she saw him as undesirable and unattractive which is how she viewed drugs after being sober for sober for five months. “He was short‚ fat‚ pale. He had bad teeth. His hair was dirty”‚ this line is her

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    d the cream.They are like brothers they work together and provide food for each other.George provided both of them food and shelter he got lennie a job George is like the big brother. Lennie thinks they both could make there dreams come true.George tells a story to Lennie that is about them and that Lennie knows the story by heart and George stops telling the story to lennie because he told lennie he doesn’t need to keep telling the story if lennie knows it by heart.George says that lennie should

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    The novel “Of Mice and Men” is filled with characters that portray weakness. They are Steinbeck’s commentary on the general attitude towards the “weak”‚ and on the stereotype of “weak”‚ and perhaps even on the belief of “survival of the fittest”-social darwinism. Candy’s dog and Lennie are two characters that do so perhaps the most significantly‚ although in the case of Candy’s dog it is slightly less obvious as he’s not given much of a personality. Upon digging deeper into these two characters‚

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    own separate worlds. This is exemplified in the comparison between the worlds of two famous transcendentalists‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau‚ and the contrary world of The Great Gatsby. Thoreau developed his own world by becoming a recluse and secluding himself from society. Emerson built his own world on firm beliefs of self-reliance and God. However‚ the world which exists in The Great Gatsby proves to be very dissimilar. The Gatsby world can be described as a distorted one. All

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    Beautiful Fools and Army Men F. Scott Fitzgerald is not that good of a writer. The Great Gatsby is suppose to be this great book‚ but that is not so. His ideas were not even original. He just took his life and his wife’s life‚ exaggerated it and added affairs‚ then published it. Anyone can do that. Daisy Buchanan life is basically Zelda’s life‚ but amped up. “Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men…” Daisy‚ like Zelda‚

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