“Of Mice and Men”: Creative Writing Assignment: Option A‚ Candy after the shooting of his dog. Dear Diary‚ Today was possibly one of the worst days in a long‚ long time. It was dreadful. It started off as a nice but breezy day‚ which we all like here because it gets the sun of your back. Especially when the poor men are out in the fields collecting the harvests. As the day got longer I started to feel a gut ache coming on from eating those ghastly turnips‚ all I could think of to get rid
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novel Of Mice and Men‚ Lennie and George are very close friends and George looks out for the mentally handicapped Lennie. Lennie is fascinated with soft things‚ but tends to hurt them on accident. George and Lennie share a dream of living off the land. That dream suddenly goes away when Lennie kills Curley’s wife. Through changes of the character‚ Candy‚ Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to predict the end of the book‚ and he and his dog are like the companionship of George and Lennie. Candy is very
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Candy’s name has many connotations and many of which gives us an insight to the inequalities against old people in American society. Candy on the very simple and literal level means “sweet and pleasing” and shows that Candy is a very sweet‚ nice old man. Another connotation that springs to mind is that Candy‚ the old swamper‚ is a very friendly‚ honest and open man with whom you can talk about everything. This is underlined by his name: "candid" means "not hiding one′s thoughts‚ frank and honest"
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Candy’s realistic fears of failure fuel his dreams; however‚ although he fears failure‚ his insecurities actually make him extremely successful and receiving empathy from the reader. Candy is the oldest character in Of Mice and Men. He is immensely kind to everyone and never tries to gain respect through fear. Not only is he old‚ he is handicapped as he is missing one of his hands. With this in mind‚ he realizes that it is very hard to secure himself a stable job when he is already old and handicapped
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novella‚ we find that Candy – a worker slaving away the hours on the ranch‚ having lost his own hand‚ now looses his ancient dog. Candy is seen by the men in the ranch vulnerable and lonely‚ he represents the older generation workers and so is worth some amount of respect from them. However because of his disability and his old age‚ he lacks importance - the men on the ranch may feel sympathy for Candy as they do for the dog. “Ain’t nothing left for him”. Candy is fearful that the men are not only referring
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Quote• Candy Quote 1 The old man [Candy] squirmed uncomfortably. "Well-hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup. I herded sheep with him." He said proudly‚ "You wouldn’t think it to look at him now‚ but he was the best damn sheep dog I ever seen." (3.56) This is almost the exact same thing that George says about Lennie: he’s "had him so long." But can you really be friends with a dog? Or someone who’s way mentally inferior to you? Chapter 3 Friendship Quote 2 "A guy on a ranch
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Steinbeck presents Candy as a vulnerable character. He does this by referencing him as an “old man” before citing his name‚ using pre-modification; so that the reader instantly knows not only his physical state but maybe that metaphorically he is a weak person. He is also shown to be desperate throughout the opening of chapter 2‚ where he tries to make friends with George and Lennie as soon as he meets them. He gossips about other people on the ranch and makes sure George “won’t tell Curley nothing”
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In the novel‚ Of Mice and Men‚ by John Steinbeck‚ the connection between Candy and his dog is very similar to the relationship between George and‚ Lennie. Candy and George are both caretakers; they look after their partners‚ even if they don’t fit in. The old dog is blind past his prime‚ and Lennie is naive and childlike in nature. It is not their fault that they are who they are because they don’t know any different. Candy defends his dog when the other workers try to convince him to get rid of
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The novel “Of Mice and Men” is filled with characters that portray weakness. They are Steinbeck’s commentary on the general attitude towards the “weak”‚ and on the stereotype of “weak”‚ and perhaps even on the belief of “survival of the fittest”-social darwinism. Candy’s dog and Lennie are two characters that do so perhaps the most significantly‚ although in the case of Candy’s dog it is slightly less obvious as he’s not given much of a personality. Upon digging deeper into these two characters‚
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Of Mice and Men revision Social and Historical context: 1930s America Of Mice and Men is written against the backdrop of a troubled America The Great Depression began in 1929 – lasted 10 years. Severe economic slump. Businesses lost everything meaning mass unemployment. (25% of population unemployed.) Terrible drought lasting 10 years hit 27 states and meant farmland became a dustbowl. Many farmers lost their land or had to sell it cheaply. Farmers had to travel to look for work (economic
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