they tried to lie to me by saying Curley got his hand caught up in a machine. Do they think i’m a kid? I knew exactly what was going on but they didn’t know the fact that i was glad. On the bright side‚ when Curley’s not there with me‚ I get to have some fun playin’ around with some men. I come into the bunkhouse and say that I’m lookin’ for Curley. No one can blame a person for lookin’. Slim is an attractive man and I’ve got my eye on him. But they don’t know me. They don’t know that I could’ve
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How does Steinbeck explore different attitude towards women in the novel Of Mice and Men? John Steinbeck provides a variety of different attitudes towards women in the novel ‘Of Mice and Men.’ I will explore these attitudes in order to represent the portrayal of women in the book; in which there are many different women with different attitudes respectively. Steinbeck uses the portrayal of Curley’s wife‚ who is the main female protagonist to show how women were treated during the 1930’s ‘Depression
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Thematic Ideas in Of Mice and Men “‘I can still tend the rabbits‚ George?’ ‘Sure. You ain’t done nothing wrong.’ ‘I di’n’t mean no harm‚ George.’” (Steinbeck) Throughout John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men‚ Lennie childishly obsesses over his and George’s plan to have their own piece of land‚ on which he could tend the rabbits. However‚ this never came to pass as Lennie was put down like an animal‚ by George. By writing about the lives of this unfortunate pair‚ Steinbeck addresses many thematic ideas
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Of Mice and Men A Comparison of Slim‚ Curly‚ and Crooks Slim Slim is the "prince of the ranch" (pg. 33) and a man held in the utmost view of respect. When we are first introduced to this character‚ he is described as a man whose "authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject‚ be it politics or love... His face was ageless... His ear heard more than was said to him‚ and his slow speech had overtones not of thought‚ but of understanding beyond thought." (pg. 33) Past his optimal
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them. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men‚ he presents many social inequalities among the characters and how they react to such
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‘Of Mice and Men’ is a novel that was published by John Steinbeck in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The Great Depression brought many rural‚ poor and migrant workers to the Great Plains states‚ such as California‚ which is where Steinbeck sets the whole novel. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 forced banks to foreclose on mortgages and collect debts. Unable to pay their debts many farmers lost their property and were forced to find other work. Steinbeck uses animal imagery on migrant characters
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of mice and men is still very relevant today. I want you to all think to yourselves‚ have you ever dreamt something so big‚ believed something so big and achieved something so big. Good morning ACARA Youth Forum‚ my name is Lily and I am going to discuss with you that classic novels studied in schools do continue to offer educational value. I go to Woodcrest State College and in the past month we have read and studied carefully the classic but still very relevant novel ‘Of Mice and Men’. During
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Dreams have a huge effects on the characters in the novel Of mice of Men by John Steinbeck. They affect the characters in three ways. They motivate them‚ mislead them‚ and they affect the people around them. The dreams in the novel Of Mice of Men keep the characters motivated in many ways. One‚ for example‚ is Lennie’s dream to “tend the rabbits” (87) in his dream farm. This motivates him to stay out of trouble and to be a “good boy” (15). George had a dream of seeing his childhood. This motivates
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Of Mice & Men - Loneliness* Crooks • He is not allowed to stay in the bunkhouse with the other ranch hands because he is black and so does not have the same status as the white workers – pg. 73‚ 75 • He is excluded from the bunkhouse and the weekend trip into Soledad because he is black. He does not even enter the bunkhouse when he needs to speak to Slim – p. 55 • He is excluded because he suffered an injury and so is not as capable as the other ranch hands – p. 22
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California’” (Steinbeck 70). With these words‚ Crooks‚ a character from Of Mice and Men‚ demonstrates his pride for being the son of a landowner instead of a slave of the South. However‚ this pride is merely a small comfort‚ as living in California does not liberate Crooks from the clutches of racial prejudice. During the Great Depression‚ the era in which the story is set‚ African-Americans afflicted by economic inequality further suffered from the racist and bigoted opinions of society. John Steinbeck’s
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