Notes on Of Mice and Men‚ the Great Depression‚ and the American Dream THE AMERICAN DREAM American Dream: the idea that by working hard‚ every person‚ regardless of race‚ religion‚ social class‚ etc‚ can lead a happy‚ successful life; the idea that ANYONE can come from “nothing” and become “something” What seem to be the necessary elements of the American Dream? The concept of the American Dream became popular during the Great Depression and it remains a part of our culture today Examples
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How are Crooks and Curley’s Wife presented as weakened/marginalised characters in the novella ‘Of Mice and Men’? Both Curley’s Wife and Crooks suffer from loneliness as a result of their marginalised life in the novella. Curley’s Wife - because of her gender and partly because of her tart-like nature‚ and Crooks - because of his race and his skin colour. Most (almost all) of the characters are victims of ostracism‚ although some cases are more noticeable than others. Steinbeck describes Crooks’
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How does Steinbeck Present the Character of Curley’s Wife and Whether She is a Victim‚ Herself or a Villian or to Blame for the Unfortunate Outcome of the Storyline? During the 1930s when Stienbeck wrote this novel the citizens of America were going through things like the Great Depression which was originally known as the Wall Street Crash. This made many businesses close down and made many people lose their jobs and have to try and find work‚ to do this they ended up travelling around and becoming
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truly understood until John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men. Minor characters allow the author to have an event take place without going to deep into the characters background and back story. There are three extremely good examples of minor characters from Of Mice and Men‚ they are Curley’s wife‚ Crooks‚ and Carlson. Curley’s wife allows for one purpose to be shown through the text. The purpose of Curley’s wife is to ruin the American dream for George‚ Lennie‚ and Candy have going for them. With
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in a while but in Steinbeck’s novella “Of Mice and Men”‚ he illustrates the loneliness of ranch life and shows how people are driven to try finding friendship in order to escape from loneliness. He uses names and words such as a town near the ranch called “Soledad”. He makes it clear that all the men on the ranch are lonely‚ with particular people lonelier than others. I think all the people living in the ranch are lonely. This proves this where Steinbeck describes the bunk house where all the workers
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Of Mice and Men Final Draft To use violence or not to use violence‚ that is the question that every author aspiring to write a novel must ask. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is about two men working ranches out west and How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster is about literary symbolism‚ and they both refer to violence. How to Read Literature Like a Professor explains violence and its significance‚ and Of Mice and Men includes violence as major plot events. How to Read Literature
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In Mice of Men there were literary analysis use to describe problems‚how things looked. Such as personification ‚simile and hyperbole and many more. Steinback uses a lot of describing words to explain ‚he will spent about a whole page explaining one thing. Just how he explains George “The first man was small and quick ‚dark of face ‚with restless eyes and sharp strong features”(Steinback 2). He use describing words and simile to explain how George’s face looks and how it is shaped.Steinbeck does this
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Of Mice and Men Friday 06 September 2013 · One of the main historical contexts in of mice and men is the references to the great depression · Another is the biblical links Steinbeck uses throughout the novella · After World War I‚ economic and ecological forces brought many rural poor and migrant agricultural workers from the Great Plains states‚ such as Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ and Kansas‚ to California. · a seven-year drought that began in 1931‚ turned once fertile grasslands into a desertlike region
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Of Mice and Men Throughout history‚ women have been seen as inferior. During the Great Depression‚ women were not granted the same rights and freedoms as men. Curley’s wife experiences many of the same injustices that women did during that time. The negative perception of women develops in Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men due to the fact that Curley’s wife is not given a real identity or a purpose throughout the novel. She is consistently seen as a sex object rather than a human
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Of Mice and Men In the book‚ Of Mice and Men‚ taken place in the late 1930’s‚ a worker was asked to take care of his boss’ mentally challenged nephew before she died. They both then become migrant workers and both have the dream of owning land and raising animals; but what happens when their chances get ruined by the nephew’s actions? John Steinbeck‚ the author of the book‚ illustrates that the worker‚ George and the mentally challenged nephew‚ Lennie’s relationship is both an obligation and a
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