“In any moment of decision‚ The best thing you can do is the right thing‚ the next best thing is the wrong thing‚ and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” Teddy Roosevelt. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ towards the ending (spoiler) one of the main characters‚ George‚ has to kill his best friend Lennie after he accidentally kills Curley’s wife because she was screaming and he got scared‚ and broke her neck‚ killing her. The quote from the beginning relates to this in that George did the
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will be someday. Unfortunately‚ Lennie’s strength always gets the best of him. He likes to pet soft things‚ but everything that he touches he kills accidentally. The two men are going to work on a ranch near the Salinas river close to a town called Soledad. George tells Lennie that if he ever gets himself into troubl at the ranch to go and hide in the brush next to the river‚ and he will come for him. While at the ranch Lennie is in the barn talking to the boss’ son’s wife and she tells him to feel
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Living in a Man’s World John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men takes place in Soledad‚ California sometime during the 1930’s. The financial struggles during the Great Depression serve as a core to which this story revolves around. The struggle to make ends meet kept the story’s main characters‚ George and Lennie‚ looking for a job in order to reach their dream of owning a home. This story’s main characters are all men‚ with the exception of one important woman. This woman is referred to as ‘Curley’s Wife
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The story Of Mice and Men‚ written by john steinbeck is a exceptional piece of literature based on the theme of dreams. This story was published in 1937 towards the end of the great depression. The farm is set just outside a california city called soledad. The people during this time didn’t have much and were plagued with poverty and famine. Although they had to survive through these scarce times the people managed to hold on to hope and dream‚ this dream was the American dream. The dream did not consist
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Matt Jarrett p.6 Author Excerpt "Lennie!" he said sharply. "Lennie‚ for God’ sakes don’t drink so much." Lennie continued to snort into the pool. The small man leaned over and shook him by the shoulder. "Lennie. You gonna be sick like you was last night." Lennie dipped his whole head under‚ hat and all‚ and then he sat up on the bank and his hat dripped down on his blue coat and ran
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Was the American Dream really designed for everyone? The American Dream was known as something everyone aspired to. In the novel Of Mice and Men‚ author John Steinbeck sets the book in California‚ near the Soledad River. Steinbeck uses several characters as a way to spark different perspectives in the novel. One of the main characters‚ Lennie‚ is known to have a mental disability by the reader. One of the main roles he shows is presenting the conflict in the novel. Because Lennie is known to cause
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is set in the midst of the 1930s during the Great Depression. The novella follows Lennie and George at their new jobs on a ranch in Soledad‚ California. Lennie is quickly shown to have a slight mental disability yet George puts up with him to avoid loneliness. Crooks‚ an outsider on the ranch‚ even confides in Lennie as no one else pays him any mind. Also‚ Curley’s wife‚ who was considered a nuisance by the other laborers‚ admitted to Lennie and Candy about how unhappy
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be seen as the survival of the fittest; the weak against the strong – the “mice” vs. the “men.” Steinbeck’s choice of setting further emphasises the theme of loneliness‚ our main characters‚ George and Lennie travel to a ranch “near Soledad.” The lexis “Soledad” means solitude and the card game “Solitaire” – which means by ones self. This gives the readers an early indication that loneliness will be a key idea in the novel.
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+ The story Of Mice and Men is set in Salinas by the Salinas River - where George and Lennie spend the night after escaping from their previous ranch in weed – just south of Soledad. The theme of loneliness runs throughout the book and I will be exploring how Steinbeck presents this theme through the character of Curley’s wife. Many of the characters are lonely‚ and seek different ways to find comfort‚ for Candy it is his dog‚ this is why he finds it so hard to let him go during chapter 3 “The old
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