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    blood‚ they shared a cherished brotherly bond. Stuck together like siamese twins‚ the companions travel the lands looking for work until Lennie’s unfortunate luck forces them to flee. Steinbeck divulges information about their relationship through key conversations and narrates their characteristics. In addition‚ Steinbeck describes the character’s relationship in multitudinous ways‚ some of which include through the detailed descriptions of their actions. As can be seen on page four of chapter one

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    ‘Of Mice and Men’ is well know for the usage of Animals within the books and without the animals‚ the book would no nearly be as descriptive as it is‚ but also it would not have the underlying meaning within the book which is so hard to put into books. Nothing within the book is just ‘ a filler’- everything in the book is there for a reason and links up with other points within the story‚ all leading up to the one main point at the end of the book. Which‚ one has to fully understand the book to

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    Explore the way’s Steinbeck presents and uses setting in ‘Of Mice and Men’ John Steinbeck uses a range of techniques to present setting in Of Mice and Men‚ for example he uses foreshadowing‚ pathetic fallacy‚ personification‚ alliteration‚ metaphors‚ similes and more. He uses these to add to the tension in the book and make it seem like they are actually in 1980s America. The Bunk House- Steinbeck shows the bunk house in many different perspectives. He writes about the people on the ranch having

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    How does Steinbeck use details in this passage to present the bunkhouse and its inhabitants? a) In ’Of Mice and MenSteinbeck presents the inhabitants as lonely men with nothing going for them in their lives. There is only “two shelves” in the bunkhouse‚ which implies that the ranch workers have no personal belongings suggesting that they have no family or have no family they care about. Steinbeck clearly shows very little family devotion as the ranch workers have few belongings. Also‚ not

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    in the whole damn world is scared of each other” (Steinbeck 35). Not many people travel together during the Great Depression thus creating many examples of isolation and loneliness. John Steinbeck demonstrates loneliness and the need for companionship through the characters Crooks‚ Candy‚ and Curly’s wife in his novel Of Mice and Men.  In this novel‚ Steinbeck uses his character Crooks to show loneliness. Character dialogue was one way Steinbeck showed loneliness in his novel. Crooks says to Lennie

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    ‘Of Mice and Men’ In John Steinbeck’s novella ‘Of Mice and Men’‚ set in the 1930s‚ it presents a negative view on women. Throughout the course of the book‚ the women are treated with contempt. Steinbeck highlights that women are generally troublemakers who bring ruin on men and drive them mad. He shows a prime example of this destructive tendency with Curley’s wife‚ who flaunts around the ranch as a temptress. In the novella‚ Steinbeck introduces us to limited‚ rather misogynistic‚ descriptions

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    and misfit character as she got so many different sides to her‚ as sometimes the reader feels sympathetic and unsympathetic about her. John Steinbeck’s novel of Mice and Men is an example of how the reader’s perception of a character can change without the character actually changing. Steinbeck uses many different techniques to present Curley’s wife such as colour imagery‚ appearance‚ metaphors and similes in the early stages of the novel. The effect of these techniques is that the reader creates

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    In the book Of Mice and Men‚ the single women that appeared in the book resented herself as an object. The statement "Women today are more often treated by men as equals rather than objects" can be true or false. A man that goes to "Gentleman ’s Cubs every night is a different man that studies at Harvard Law School. A striper is going to be a different person than a CEO of a successful business. It’s all about how you present yourself. In Of Mice and Men‚ Curley ’s wife presents herself in a seductive

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    Novel: Of Mice and Men Author: John Steinbeck John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men examines the idea that the American Dream is a futile ambition. This "Dream" proposes the fact that social and economic success can be gained through means of hard work‚ ultimately determining that the pursuit of happiness cannot be attained in our modern society. Steinbeck outlines this theme by employing symbolism and‚ via Curley’s wife‚ a protagonist within the novella. This poem suggests to me that although

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    Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Introduction summary John Steinbeck celebrated friendship‚ both in his life and in his fiction. Friendship is the most enduring relationship in his best work… But Steinbeck’s vision of camaraderie is less markedly an escape from marriage‚ home‚ and commitment than an exploration of the parameters of society and self. (Pvii) … arguably the best of his short novels… commitment between friends that is love at its highest pitch. To read Of Mice and Men as Steinbeck

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