discrimination that prevents people from having a good relationship. At last‚ this is a racial discrimination from the story ‘Of Mice and Men’. In the story shows drawing a line between white people and black people in the ranch which located in south of Soledad of America‚ it is a first country that have the problem of racism because in America have the area was suitable for growing tobacco and cotton on large plantations. They must buy black people from Africa to work as slaves on these plantations the
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The Strong will Not be Lonely Of Mice and Men Essay Sometimes it seems as though the most privileged people are the weakest because they are not prepared to fall. “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck is a short novel that focuses on the hardship of living in California during the Great Depression. Some may agree that the main conflict in this novel is the misfortune of a kind-hearted barley bucker‚ Lennie‚ but a greater theme lies under the pages. The real hardship goes to Lennie’s best friend‚
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“Lennie broke in.”But not us” An’ Why? Because… I got you to look after me‚ and you got me to look after you and that’s why‚”(Steinbeck 13). John Steinbeck the author of the novel Of Mice and Men writes a story that takes place in Soledad‚ California on a ranch. In the story George and Lennie‚ friends who travel together‚ get into a tough situation. Lennie had murdered Curley’s wife‚ and George has to decide whether he should run away with Lennie‚ let Curley kill Lennie and let him suffer‚ or mercy
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Plato is credited with having said‚ “ The measure of a man is what he does with power.” Power is best known for being able to corrupt people‚ and those people only using power for their own means to an end. But power is also able to get people to follow orders‚ or bad down from a bad decision. It can even be used positively‚ to help both whoever is using it and whoever encounters it or inspire others. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ Candy‚ Curley‚ and George each use or encounter
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loneliness of the ranch life in the early 1930’and shows‚ how migrant workers are driven to find friendship in order to escape from isolation. The author further reinforces this theme through subtle methods by situating the story near the town of Soledad‚ which means "solitude" in Spanish; this alone foreshadows the novel by emphasizing isolation. Despite the need for companionship‚ Steinbeck presents how the nature of loneliness is sustained though the barriers established from acting inhumane to
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But‚ the two main themes of `Of Mice and Men’ were loneliness and alienation. Steinbeck raises questions in the mind of the reader that the novel would be based on loneliness. The first line reads "A few miles south of Soledad". This is a clever idea by Steinbeck as "Soledad" means loneliness in Spanish. Steinbeck shaped the ranch where George and Lennie worked in as an isolated and primitive place this is shown when George mentions that "ranch workers are the loneliest people in the world
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get them into trouble. They have two things; a dream of one day owning their own little house with acres and rabbits‚ and they’ve got each other. After barely escaping from a ranch up in Weed‚ Lennie end George get to work on a ranch south of Soledad. Everything works out just fine‚ until Lennie has a bad accident with the wife to Curley‚ the boss’s son. As I said‚ Lennie is not so normal‚ so can’t control his strength right. Without meaning it‚ Lennie breaks the woman’s neck. He gets frightened
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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 Lennie are the best of friends‚ all though they are opposites. After they find jobs on the ranch‚
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life in the early 1930’s and shows how people are driven to try and find friendship in order to escape from loneliness. Steinbeck creates a lonely atmosphere at many times in the book. He uses names and words such as the town near the ranch called "Soledad"‚ which means loneliness and the card game "Solitaire" Which means by ones self‚ this makes it clear that all the men on the ranch are lonely‚ with particular people lonelier than others. For example Crooks‚ who suffers from extreme loneliness because
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