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    In Mice of Men there were literary analysis use to describe problems‚how things looked. Such as personification ‚simile and hyperbole and many more. Steinback uses a lot of describing words to explain ‚he will spent about a whole page explaining one thing. Just how he explains George “The first man was small and quick ‚dark of face ‚with restless eyes and sharp strong features”(Steinback 2). He use describing words and simile to explain how George’s face looks and how it is shaped.Steinbeck does

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    understood until John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men. Minor characters allow the author to have an event take place without going to deep into the characters background and back story. There are three extremely good examples of minor characters from Of Mice and Men‚ they are Curley’s wife‚ Crooks‚ and Carlson. Curley’s wife allows for one purpose to be shown through the text. The purpose of Curley’s wife is to ruin the American dream for George‚ Lennie‚ and Candy have going for them. With Curley’s

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    Of Mice and Men is a novella[1][2] written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937‚ it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small‚ two displaced migrant ranch workers‚ who move from place to place in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in California‚ USA. Based on Steinbeck’s own experiences as a bindlestiff in the 1920s (before the arrival of the Okies he would vividly describe in The Grapes of Wrath)‚ the title is taken from Robert

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    California. One of them‚ Lennie Small whose name does not live up to a person’s expectation; he is big and that’s all he’s got going for him unfortunately. George is small and quick‚ a roving farmworker who takes on a father like role and watches over Lennie. The two are broke and search for work on the farms of Northern California. Being broke is problematic for George and Lennie since they plan to own a farm someday. George is the intelligence behind this plan‚ while Lennie is about as sharp as a

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    George Milton and Lennie Small‚ two migrant field workers in California during the great depression‚ on there way to yet another ranch. They are coming from a ranch in Northern California‚ called weed‚ in which they got kicked out from. What had happened was‚ Lennie had an obsession with stroking things. There was this one girl at the the ranch in Weed‚ that had on a nice dress. Lennie thought it would be a nice thing to stoke her dress. And while he was holding her dress‚ she got scared and started

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    end of Mice and Men many were disturbed by the way George handled Lennie. Many thought George didn’t need to kill Lennie. He and George could have run to a new location just like they’ve done before. They both could have started over again in a new work place‚ while still keeping their dream of getting a ranch someday. I believe otherwise. George needed to kill Lennie because he doesn’t understand his own strength‚ lennie could have killed again‚ and George didn’t know what the other men were going

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    Of Mice and Men – By John Steinbeck How is the power of dreams and dreaming in the novel? The idea of moving from one place to another‚ working hard and trying to raise the quality of life for you and your loved ones is known as ’The American Dream ’. Steinbeck invites us to understand how having this dream keeps them going despite the challenging life that each character faces. Throughout the novel‚ Steinbeck makes this ’dream ’ the main focus of the story for both the reader and characters

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    she is around the ranch workers‚ and what they think of her. The author also illustrates the life of a typical women in 1930’s America and the little respect they were given. Steinbeck does not make the reader feel one strong emotion for her but various different emotions throughout the novel. Furthermore he constantly foreshadows a coming of an event she will play a major role in by reminding George and Lennie how similar she is to the girl in Weed‚ who Lennie was falsely accused of raping. The

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    They are what people aspire to have‚ different people have different dreams. This is illustrated in the book Of Mice and and Men by John Steinbeck. Various characters have various dreams that helps them further develop themselves as a character. The dreams that each of the characters had in the novel made up their attitude and outlook on like. Dreams play an important role in Of Mice and Men‚ they motivate the characters‚ and dictate their actions. The characters dreams play an important role in the

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    John Steinbeck’s novela ‚ Of Mice And Men. Some people would say that having George be the one to kill Lennie would not be justified. Or how no one should ever be killed because it is not the right thing to do. However‚ in George’s mind he was simply putting Lennie out of misery; he felt that he was showing mercy. In conclusion‚ George’s action in killing Lennie was justified because he felt that he should be the one to help take the grief from him because the other men were determined to kill him

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