Comparing The American Dream In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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I am sorry to tell you that dreams don’t come true. Rather, it’s your goals that can forever change your life. You need to set goals in order to turn your dreams into reality. For many years America has remained dreaming to manifest its own destiny. This dream describes America as the land of opportunity and to conquer a new frontier. The dreams that were achieved changed after the Great Depression and more people just wish for a better life. During the Great Depression any kind of jobs were taken so men like Lennie and George were common to travel for work.There are several examples in the novel that foreshadows what may happen in the end of MiCE Of MEn. In the first chapters, it is apparent that Lennie is a simple minded man who likes to …show more content…

First, Candy's dog is killed then at the end of the book Lennie is killed. These shooting have a lot in common. To start both the dog and Lennie were shot by the same gun, a luger. Carlson owned the luger. The dog was shot by Carlson and Lennie was shoot by George. Both, Lennie and the dog were shot in the back of the head "where the spine and the skull were joined."(page 105) Steinbeck and Carlson used the same word to describe the pain, which the victims would endure. The word was quiver. Both of the victims friends reacted the same, they both seemed mesmerized and bemused about what had happened. The dog's M. Stern page 2 shooting set up a foreshadow for the killing of Lennie. When one reads the shooting of Lennie they think about how similar they were. But when reads it they also wonder why George shot …show more content…

George never ended up getting paid for his hard work on ranches because of Lennie. That could have been a reason for George shooting Lennie, it partly was, but when Candy said "I ought to of shoot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my... Lennie ainẗ handy, but this Curley punk is gonna get hurt if he messes around with Lennie.(36). This shows that Lennie is going to hurt by Curley in the future. It says that if Curley were to mess with Lennie he would hurt him, and thatś exactly what happened to

Dignity In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
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In the book it reads “Got no teeth, damn near blind, can’t eat. Candy feeds him milk. He can’t chew nothing else” (Steinbeck 36). This evidence supports my argument because it shows Candy’s dog being in pain. Candy’s dog deserves to be put out of his misery because of his suffering. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, it reads “And at his heels there walked a drag footed sheep dog, gray of muzzle with pale, old eyes. The dog stuggled lamely to the side of the room and lay down, grunting softly to himself and licking his grizzled, moth eaten coat” (Steinbeck 24). This shows the dog has been in agony and is very old with his suffering self. This evidence supports my argument because Candy’s dog needs help getting around how Lennie needs help when he gets in trouble. By shooting Candy’s dog, Carlson offers mercy to his dog. Mercy killing can also happen in real life
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Lennie Inhumane Analysis
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With all of the times that Lennie is compared to an animal, he may as well be one in the plot, and usually animals are portrayed as much less than humans, and can be killed off with no remorse in a book. After the climax, where Lennie kills Curley’s Wife, readers are on the edge of the seat when George grabs the gun and finds Lennie in the forest. When it is said that “the crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again”(Steinbeck 106), it is immediately understood that though he was killed off like an animal, the correlation between his animal traits and human traits proves that the worst can happen to
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The Nature Of Life In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
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He touches the hair of Curley 's wife, but she gets scared. In the result, Lennie accidentally kills her and runs away.
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How Did George Kill Lennie Justified
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One reason George was justified in killing Lennie is because if he didn’t then Lennie would’ve suffered getting lynched by Curly, and George would have to sit there and watch it all and George wouldn’t do that. George wanted to kill Lennie himself because that’s his best friend and the two have been through everything together, so there was no way George would have some stranger go and kill his best friend. It’s exactly like Candy and his dog Candy has had that dog since it was a pup so it was like his kid and when it got to old and couldn’t do anything it was put down and Candies exact words were “I should have killed him myself”
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The Humane Option In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
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One reason behind this is that worse would have happened to the pair if George let Lennie live. For instance, after Curley’s Wife is killed, Curley says, “I’m gonna shoot the guts outta that big bastard myself!” (Steinbeck, 98) This portrays Curley’s raw anger with Lennie, and since George
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Mercy Killing In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
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Why’n’t you shoot him” (Steinbeck 44). This shows that the dog was in pain and old. Carlson knows the dogs in pain and that's why he would rather just put him down rather than let him continue to live in pain. Once Curley knew that Lennie killed his wife he wanted to kill him saying “when you see ‘um, don’t give ‘im no chance. Shoot for his guts” (Steinbeck 97).
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Sympathy For George In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
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George shoots Lennie because he sees what the other people on the ranch would do to Lennie. After asking Curley if he could not shoot Lennie, Curley tells George that, "'I’m gonna shoot the guts outa that big bastard myself, even if I only got one hand. I’m gonna get ‘im'" (50). This shows that the others on the ranch weren't going to consider that Lennie was disabled, and Curley would try to make his death very painful. This gives George a motivation to kill Lennie: so he could make his death as painless as possible. This makes the reader have sympathy towards George. Additionally, the result of George killed Lennie, who would be the closest person to George to die at his hands, leaves George devastated that he had to do something like that to his best friend. Even though it is the best option and if I were in that scenario, the thing I would do, it understandably still makes his feel heart-broken. Ultimately, the whole book has made me feel sympathy towards George, but the ending makes me feel so much
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Comparing The American Dream In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
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The era that Steinbeck’s book took place, has a few similarities, but many more differences to that of the Modern Era. The American Dream portrayed throughout Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” was very hard to achieve. Many lost everything due to the hardships of the Great Depression.
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Lennie Monologue
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Curley acts like he owns the whole place. Lennie started laughing and curley had had enough he wanted to fight Lennie. George watched “Curley’s fist swinging when Lennie reached for his fist. The next time Curley was flopping like a fish on a line, and Curley's fist was lost in Lennie's big hand (Steinbeck,63). Curley has never like being disrespected no one likes it
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Mercy Killing In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
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“He shook her then, and he was angry with her. ‘Don’t you go yellin’,’ he said, and he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck” (Steinbeck 91). Lennie, in Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, is a young man, with a figure like bear, who suffers from a mental disorder that gives him an obsession with wanting to touch soft things, such as a girl’s hair. His companion, George, is the exact opposite, being small, with defined features, he is the one who looks after Lennie.
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Justice In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
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and she didn’t like it. Lennie has been a huge problem throughout the story. Lennie had killed things, broken a hand, and just caused problems on the ranch. Lennie remembers that George told him to go hide in the brush until George got there if Lennie got in problems. When Curley realizes Lennie killed his wife, George knows where he is and he knows Curley will kill him.
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Comparing The American Dream In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
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The American dream is the ideal thing that every American hope to achieve in their lifetime. The dream resonates with native-born Americans and immigrants who were looking to have prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. The people who traveled to America in hopes to have good jobs, a nice house, and plenty of money found it was going to be hard to make happen. Although, the American dream is hard to achieve it is possible for the people who work hard to obtain what they want.
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Morality In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
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As Curley came to life he exclaims, “I know who done it… he ran furiously out of the barn. (96). Curley does not skip a beat, he jumps up, grabs his shotgun and all he wants is to kill Lennie. George realizes ahead of time Curley will not care that Lennie’s actions were unintentional and decides the best way to handle the situation would be to kill Lennie himself, saving him from the wrath of Curley and the other
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Lennie Small from Of Mice and Men
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George protects Lennie from many things; but is most remembered for protecting Lennie from being killed painfully by Curley. Candy's regret that he didn't kill his dog himself, foreshadows George's decision to shoot Lennie before Curley gets to him first. Also, Lennie is devoted. Devoted to the rabbits, and devoted to George. The rabbits are an important part of the novel.
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American Dream In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
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The American Dream, as portrayed by Of Mice and Men, always seems to be just out of reach but in the end is unachievable. As stated by Lisca “This transference of symbolic value from the farm to the rabbits is important also because it make possible the motif of action. This is introduced in the first scene by the dead mouse which Lennie is carrying in his pocket. As George talks about Lennie’s attraction to mice, it becomes evident that the symbolic rabbits will come to the same end - crushed by Lennie's simple, Blundering strength. Thus Lennie’s killing of mice and later his killing of the puppy set up a pattern which the reader expects to be carried out again” (Lisca 73)
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