Lennie and George are considerably different from the other ranch workers mainly unlike the workers who are all shown to be lonely‚ George and Lennie have each other. They relay on each other and their dreams together. There is a bond of trust and friendship between the two main characters which is tragically highlighted in the closing lines of the novel. The novel ’Of Mice and Men ’ by John Steinbeck is set in the early 1930 ’s following the collapse of the New York wall street market known as
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4 10\7\13 Did George need to kill Lennie? The Explanation There are some bad things in the world that we have to take action with; like dangerous dogs or bad people. Those things can be taken care of easily by either killing it or holding it in a secluded place. Now back when the story is being told‚ there weren’t many places to put people in‚ so they were sometimes executed. George had to do this with Lennie in chapter 6. Yet did he do this on purpose? So George killed Lennie because of him getting
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the story "Of Mice & Men"‚ John Steinbeck creates a pair of low-class companionship as the story ’s main character. This pair of companionship‚ George and Lennie is very different from each other‚ nothing alike‚ no matter talking about their figures‚ personality‚ IQ‚ etc‚ except that they both carry the same American dream as they spend their hard days traveling together and working in the ranch. Lennie is portrayed as being childlike. He looks up on George as a parental figure: "Lennie ’s lips quivered
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Of mice and men Despite their differences‚ they’re dependent on each other. Lennie is the far by best worker in between George and him he’s also mentally handicapped and also has a desire to pet/ touch soft things(animals). These traits‚ combined with his uncontrollable strength‚ set the stage for disaster. In mice of men the story explains the depth of George and Lennie’s relationship and how they faced many difficulties together‚ also shows all the difficulties that both of them face and how they
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the ways Lennie is presented and developed in Of Mice and Men Although Lennie is among the main characters in ‘Of Mice and Men’‚ he is perhaps the least self-motivated. He experiences no significant changes‚ development‚ or growth throughout the novel and remains exactly as the reader encounters him in the opening pages. Throughout this essay I will be explaining the different aspects of his character. Although Steinbeck’s insistent foreshadowing of these characteristics makes Lennie a rather
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George says that Lennie and himself are different from other men like them because they have each other. Other men are on their own and they have each other to talk to and keep one another company. Such as‚ when George says “With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us...”(p.14) George says this meaning that he cares about Lennie‚ and Lennie cares about him‚ they both look after each other in different ways. They are not just men finding jobs
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The Mice and Men is about two men who go on a journey looking for a job at a ranch. Lennie and George find a ranch and start to work hard and dream about having their own ranch. Everyone at this ranch seems very nice except for one man and his wife. One of the men that Steinbeck created‚ Lennie‚ always seems to get in trouble‚ especially with this man. George‚ the other man‚ feels that it’s his job to get Lennie out of trouble. Lennie is not the smartest of their little group. Lennie shows that
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Even from the very start of John Steinbeck’s novel‚ Of Mice and Men‚ the uniqueness of George‚ as a character‚ is already noticeable. He is described as "small and quick‚ dark of face‚ with restless eyes and sharp strong features" and has an obvious dominance over the relationship between Lennie and himself. This lets the reader know from a very early stage in the book that George is different‚ and probably the essential character. George’s character seems to be used by Steinbeck to reflect the major
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characters in Of Mice and Men‚ Lennie can best be remembered by his childish traits. In the beginning of the story‚ when George and Lennie were sitting at the encampment by the river Lennie begged George to tell the story of the rabbits(14). This story was about much more than just rabbits; but Lennie‚ being the manchild he was only cared about the fact that he got to care for and play with the rabbits‚ just like any child would. Later on in the story‚ Curley picked a fight because Lennie was supposedly
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rays. Johns Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men showcases the dreams of two men who traveled through the farm lands of Central California of the late 1930s. Lennie’s an unpredictable man as a result by not knowing how to make decisions‚ not knowing his own strength‚ and not knowing how to control his temper. The first way Lennie’s an unpredictable man is by the decisions he makes. Lennie was feeling the woman’s hair admiring her soft silky hair. The girl asked Lennie to stop and the woman then started
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