Is ‘Of mice and men’ a pessimistic novel? Written in 1936‚ ‘Of Mice and Men’ is perhaps a bleak novella by John Steinbeck. It is set in California in the 1930’s at the time of ‘The Great Depression’ and ‘The Dust Bowl’ when life was particularly harsh and humanity somewhat lacking. Arguably‚ the novel is a pessimistic one as it depicts the world of migrant workers‚ lonely and desperate and hungry to achieve unattainable dreams. However‚ ‘The American Dream’ also stands as a symbol of hope and
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Crooks is the African American character in the novel who is the symbol of racial injustice. He is treated unfairly by the other characters due to his race difference. Crooks is not even allowed to sleep in the same quarters with the other men. At one point in the novel one of the other characters displays extreme racism to Crooks by saying‚ “Well‚ you keep your place then‚ Nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny” (PG 120). This quote made him close down
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Discrimination if often based on many qualities and abilities. Some of the most clearly shown examples in John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men are gender‚ age and racial discrimination. The victims of these types of discrimination are Curley’s wife‚ who is unhappy and bitter about her life‚ Candy‚ the old‚ disabled swamper and Crooks‚ the black stable buck. Throughout the novel‚ these three characters face many hardships because they are harshly judged and often misunderstood. Curley’s wife
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Imagine finding a dog in some alley. There’s no way it can help itself and nothing anybody else could do to help it. It’s justifiable to kill that poor thing that is otherwise going to die a slow and painful death. In the book Of Mice and Men by: John Steinbeck‚ the characters had quite a similar view. All of themes agrees as a group to finally put Candy’s dog out of it’s misery. And the same thing goes for George with finally ending the life of his dear partner‚ Lennie. One of the only reason to
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Of Mice and Men During life‚ people become great friends with other people. Friends are loyal companions. They always have each other’s backs and are there for them whenever they need them and this is a very special relationship. In the short novel Of Mice and Men by author John Steinback‚ a numerous amount of these relationships are formed. Each one of these relationships is unique. Friendships form between Candy and his dog‚ Crooks and Lennie‚ and George and Lennie. Many people say a dog
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argue‚ or just spend time with. “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” - Mother Teresa. According to Google Dictionary loneliness is defined as “a sadness because one has no friends or company.” In the novel Of Mice and Men‚ by John Steinbeck‚ it follows a pair of migrant field workers‚ George Milton and Lennie Smalls‚ in California as they move South from Weed to work in a ranch in Soledad‚ which not so coincidently may stand for “solitude” or “alone”. George and
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hardly realistic; he thinks of nature as full of fluffy and cute playthings. He has no notion of the darkness in the natural world‚ the competition and the cruelty. He wouldn’t have the faintest notion how to feed himself without George. In this too the men balance each other: George sees the world through suspicious eyes. He sees only the darkness where Lennie sees only the light. George may complain about how burdensome it is to care for Lennie‚ but this complaint seems to ring hollow: in truth‚ George
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Do you have what it takes to make your dreams come true? Would you still have a dream even if you knew it wouldn’t come true? Dreams have a big part in people’s lives. They do change people’s lives. The importance of dreams in Of Mice and Men is that they always wanted to do something that would make them happy and do something they loved and work hard for what they want. Like George and Lennie in the book the main characters they had a dream to live on a farm and make money for it
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“I seen guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain’t no good. They don’t have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They wantin’ to fight all the time.”(Steinbeck‚ 41). In the novel “Of Mice and Men” By John Steinbeck‚ we learn about George Milton and his Companion Lennie Small they are two men traveling town to town looking for work in the 1930s Great Depression. Until they end up at a ranch up in soledad that is really mean and cruel and this rance splits these two apart forever. A major
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Lennie often forgets things ‚ in chapter 1 of Mice and Men ‚ George had to hold Lennie’s worker card for him so he wouldn’t lose it because the worker card gives access to employment. Also Lennie hallucinates sometimes ‚ in Chapter 6 Lennie hallucinates and sees his dead Aunt Clara and a giant rabbit.
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