“[George] reached in his side pocket and brought out Carlson’s Luger; he snapped off the safety ‚ and the hand and gun lay on the ground behind Lennie’s back. He looked at the back of Lennie’s head‚ at the place where the spine and skull were joined...” (Steinbeck 105). In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ George makes the decision to shoot his best friend Lennie. Lennie is a mentally disabled man with hopes and dreams of owning a farm‚ and living off the fat of the land. George is the man who goes
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Americans want to find a sense of belonging and independence. John Steinbeck shows the reader these ideas throughout the novel Of Mice and Men. This also is a goal that everyone in the world can relate too. In the novel‚ George and Lennie share this dream through their hopes of owning land and enjoying freedoms that they have not experienced before. Although they share this dream together‚ both view it very differently. George is the only one who thinks about what owning land could actually mean
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During his presents‚ Mr._____ displays his violence onto his wife. When Mr.___ starts beating Celie‚ “Harpo ast his daddy why he beat me. Mr._____say‚ Cause he my wife. Plus‚ she stubborn.
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The relationship between Machbeth and Lady Macbeth By Myrna Cibelly Macbeth‚ the play written by William Shakespeare in 1606‚ shows us the relationship that exists between the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and how it creates most of the actions‚ reactions‚ moods‚ feelings and attitudes. Both love each other and that deserves any sacrifice. At the beginning of the play‚ they are very close and this is shown when he calls her‚ "my dearest partner of greatness." He
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‘Of Mice and Men’ is written by John Steinbeck‚ published in 1937. The novel is set in the 1930s during the great depression in California. The two protagonist characters‚ George and Lennie are farm workers who have a dream of one-day owning their own ranch. They find work in a ranch near Soledad which means loneliness in Spanish‚ after escaping from Weed because of George’s incident. They are met by different characters on the farm that all have a dream. In this story‚ the characters are lonely
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ended when George shot Lennie in the back of the head. He didn’t want Lennie to feel the pain‚ so he tried to picture their American dream to take Lennie’s attention away. Did George have to shoot Lennie? Were there other options and alternatives to shooting his best friend? When George made the decision to kill Lennie‚ he felt that he had no other choice but to shoot Lennie. George knew that he didn’t want to continue living and travel with Lennie anymore‚ because he fears that Lennie will make
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Right after George and Lennie had got off the bus‚ George expresses how all Lennie does is get him in trouble and that he’d be better off not being friends with him. This is Steinbeck already setting the theme by using George and Lennie’s relationship as an example. After getting to the farm George and Lennie start talking to the Boss and he asks George what he’s getting out of their relationship. This is Stienbeck again emphasising how one sided the relationship is. While Slim and George are talking
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How does Steinbeck convey the theme of loneliness? As a socialist writer‚ John Steinbeck used his stories to show how unfair the world was under capitalism. In Of Mice and Men‚ he used the settings‚ characterisation and language to convey the theme of loneliness. From the very first line‚ "A few miles south of Soledad" (Soledad being Spanish for solitary)‚ the settings pay homage to the theme of loneliness. The first and final scene take place in a majestic clearing that will remain untouched
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Lennie Lennies behaviour is very childlike‚ this can be perseieve from ‘’Lennie put his hands over his ears’’ his manorisms of dealing with issues are very child like and can be seen to be similar to the ideal of ‘out of sight out of mind’. This makes us forget about his strength and we are reminded that he can be dangerous‚ in the scene when he fights with Curley which surprises the reader as he first comes across as a soft person‚ and this i turn prepares the reader for the following events of
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Why George Should Not Have Killed Lennie At the last time I read book named “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck.. This book was interesting! I like it‚ we might understand this book in two ways‚ that we agree what George did and that we can not understand what George did. I know that a lot of people say that George should have killed Lennie‚ but I think that George should have not killed Lennie. He should not killed Lennie because it is not humanitarian‚ everyone has a right to life. When we killed
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