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    People would find any reason to find any reason to pick on them. It can be seen in the novella. "Then Curley’s rage exploded. ‘Come on‚ ya big bastard. Get up on your feet. No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me. I’ll show you who’s yella.’" (Steinbeck 62) Because he has a slower brain‚ people can treat him Lennie disrespect‚ and not think it does not

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    Wrath written by John Steinbeck is a beautifully described tale of hardship and perseverance. Steinbeck started off by placing the scene in the Dust Bowl and then told the story of the Joads family and their journey to California. The Joads were among many thousands of families who lost everything in the Dust Bowl and who fled the country’s heartland to find work. When the Joads arrived in California‚ they found it to be overrun with workers‚ and still struggled to survive. Steinbeck ended the book

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    How does Steinbeck explore different attitudes to women in the novel? Of Mice and Men was written by John Steinbeck in the mid 1930’s and published in 1937 when America had started to recover from the Wall Street Crash. The 1920’s were a ’boom-time’ in America‚ there was plenty of work and money was easily made but the 1930’s brought unemployment and poverty. The attitudes to women in his novel are in the main unflattering. Steinbeck depicts them as unintelligent and most of the women in the novel

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    Steinbeck introduces us to George ande Lennie‚ two migrant workers who are traveling to work on a ranch in Soledad‚ California. The old duo is trying to suruive and save up some money during the 19305: Great Deprssion. George and Lennie are introduced to the swamper ‚Curley‚ the boss‚ slim‚ Carison‚ and Curleys wife. Lennie and George is learning about the boss and the others. He lied about the bus driver giving him abum steer. The swamper had only one hand. Curley wife is always whereing

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    can be written in many different genres and those are how novels are made up as. John Steinbeck has had a huge impact on literature in many different ways. Steinbeck once said‚ “You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway”. This dramatizes that people only ask for advice because we think we are going to get the answer we are looking for‚ which is not always the case. Steinbeck had to work hard for making a name for himself in the writing world. His two most

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    How does Steinbeck present the theme of loneliness in ’Of Mice and Men’? ’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‚ after escaping from Weed because of George’s incident. They are met by different characters on the farm that all have a dream. To

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    Topic: Steinbeck’s Descriptive Writing Style specifically to the Settings • Thesis statement: The Great Depression left adverse economic conditions in the history of the United States. In view of this experience‚ Steinbeck took an initiative to express his concerns regarding the matter in his novel “Of Mice and Men.” Outline • Introduction o Thesis statement o General information of the setting of the novel • Body o Description of scene settings o Description of the geographical locations

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    To what extent does Steinbeck portray dreams as futile in ‘Of Mice and Men’? In Of Mice and Men‚ the hopes and dreams of the men on the ranch are a continuous focus and theme throughout the novel. John Steinbeck portrays the effects that dreams‚ or lack of them‚ have on the lives of the characters and the outcome of the novel. Steinbeck uses the concept of dreams at once to show hope and aspiration‚ as they invoke companionship with united determination for a better future‚ and to illustrate the

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    with their “dream” of owning land‚ Candy begs to join the “dream.” Candy lost everything including his beloved dog; he is desperate. This leads to my question‚ why did Steinbeck choose to make Candy join the dream over any other character? Steinbeck chose Candy to join the dream because he is the most desperate and Steinbeck wanted to

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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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