Some dictionaries define Relationship as the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected. The relationship of Woody and Buzz and Lennie and george are both similar and different. In Toy Story three Woody and Buzz find themselves neglected by their owner Andy until they find the Sunnyside daycare where they think all their troubles of not being played with are solved until the snotty gross toddlers play with them. They then try to escape but the evil bear Lotso tries to stop them from leaving. They finally escape then find a home for themselves. In Of Mice and Men Lennie and George find themselves in the great depression. Lennie the big softie and kind of stupid is watched over by his …show more content…
First off Lennie and George's relationship and Buzz and Woody's relationship is both different and the same, in Toy Story three because neither buzz or Woody are stupid and can't live on their own. In Of Mice And Men, Lennie is an idiot and would be dead a long time ago without George. In Of Mice and Men Lennie is in the barn with Curley's wife when he accidentally snaps Curley's wife's neck. Lennie loves to touch soft things. When Lennie is offered to touch Curley's wife's hair he fulfills the opportunity. He will not stop when asked after a minute of touching it, when Curley's wife tries to escape he squeezes her in panic not knowing what to do until he snaps her neck. ¨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¨) Lennie is shown in this quote being a complete idiot. He isn't trying to kill her he likes her, but he is to stupid to know that when he squeezes things really hard they will die. If he was a normal he would have just let go. It's common sense. This is different from Buzz and …show more content…
One of the biggest similarities that stands out to me is the same idea both groups have of the american dream. Dictionaries define the american dream as the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. In Of Mice and Men Lennie is in Crooks room talking to him. Crooks is trying to push him away but Lennie stays. He tells crooks about him and Georges American dream but crooks proceeds to tell him it's impossible “ Lennie said quietly,’It ain’t no lie. We’re gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an’ live on the fatta the lan’. ‘ This shows that Lennie and George still have the idea of the American dream. Lennie and George are working so they can get a little place and some land. Then they will get rabbits and Lennie will be able to tend them. This shows an American dream because they believe if they work enough they will be able to buy this little house with land. Although it is very unlikely. Buzz and Woody show this dream when the want to be played with by andy. At the beginning they take two phones into their toy box and they call each other. So that it makes noise and Andy comes and plays with them, but it does not work. This shows that even though there problem is not as big they still have the idea of the american dream and the ideal life.
What does it mean to have a relationship? You could be together, pertaining to the select other who you entrust with all your emotions and your heart. You could be related, like a brother, sister, mother, daughter, etcetera; a relative. Heck, you could pertain this vast meaning of a relationship, with the ocean itself. As the ocean is large and it inumerous to fathom, so is the definition of relationship, which can be portrayed as various meanings.
Of Mice and Men - George and Lennie seem to have a very close friendship throughout the story. Of Mice and Men George and Lennie seem to have a very close friendship throughout the story. This is strange because they are completely different from each other mentally, as well as physically. The author tells us that George is a small, quick and defined man. He is the leader of the two men and makes all the plans.
When lennie got in trouble in weed, he was holding on to a girls dress and she screamed which got him in trouble. As lennie quoted in document B, “Jus’ wanted to feel that girl’s dress, Jus’ wanted to pet it like it was a mouse. When he saw her dress he wanted to pet it, so when he went to go pet her dress he grabbed on when she started screaming and he wouldn’t let go, and then they sent people after george and lennie so they had to run away. Lennie has also killed the pup that was given to him by petting it too hard. Lennie said in document B, “ why do you got to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice. I didn’t bounce you to hard, you wasn’t big enough’. Lennie had killed the pup when he was just petting it, he didn’t want to kill it he was just patting it and since he is a gentle giant, he didn’t know he was patting it to hard. Lennie definetly made a clew, that he was going to kill curley’s wife, because in all the other events he got in trouble in he would end up doing a bad thing, just like in weed, and just like when he killed the
George has a small figure and is considered tiny against his tall and heavily built friend Lennie. However, he shows great dominance over him. He demands that Lennie hand him a dead mouse that Lennie had kept secret from George. He also makes sure that Lennie is to not talk when they first show up to the farm. George manipulates his power against Lennie to take charge in the duo. Despite the fact that Lennie’s robust body has more strength and power against George’s, he is still the one who is in command in the pair.
Laura helps feed Maurice and gives him a future to look forward to while George helps Lennie get through the hardships of being mentally handicapped. Furthermore, both friendships manage to have moments of fun even during the hard times. Even though Maurice is homeless and has much stress in his life, he still finds time to go to Laura’s house and play with her. This is shown again when George and Lennie think about their dream of having a farm, and they find comfort in each other during the Great Depression. Moreover, both of these friendships also fill a gap in each other’s life. Maurice needed someone to care for him and do motherly things for him so Laura stepped into his life and cared for him as a mother and friend. In “Of Mice and Men”, George is described to be a lonely man without Lennie. Lennie fills the gap in George’s life and becomes somewhat like George’s brother. These are some of the qualities that make these types of special relationships be known as
For Lennie, this comes in the form of soft items like mice, or types of velvety fabrics. His Aunt used to give him to pet when he was younger. Equivalently, Forrest becomes infatuated with a childhood friend named Jenny. Both characters continue to get into trouble because of their inability to understand that their obsessions produce detrimental effects: Lennie couldn’t comprehend that he was petting the animals too hard and killing them and Forrest was unable to pick up on Jenny’s social cues that his behavior was messing with her life. Lennie, as described in the quote, got George and himself chased out of a town they were working in because he harassed by trying to feel her dress. When the woman squirmed, Lennie panicked and grabbed the woman. At the end of the story, Lennie ends up killing Curley’s wife by accident while trying to feel her hair. Similarly, Forrest ruins things for Jenny multiple times throughout the story. One example is when Forrest pulls Jenny’s boyfriend out of a car and punches him repeatedly because he thought she was in danger. This ultimately brings the relationship to an end. While the fates of these two characters are extremely different, the theme of their obsessive behavior leading to undesirable altercations is very similar.
With the setting as the Great Depression in the 1930s, George and Lennie of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men have overcome the adversity of being unemployed as they pursue work through Murray and Ready.In addition, they are bindle stiffs and are among other dispossessed males who must ride railroad cars and migrate from job to job. However, they are not alone like most of the other workers; due to the fact they have the friendship and trust of one another. In the beginning to the end George and Lennie share the hope of having a little farm of their own on which they can live on "the fat of the land" someday. (Citation) With this dream, they conquer the terrible alienation that men without homes encounter. Thus, George and Lennie overcome the adversities of poverty, alienation, and despair while staying true to their friendship.
In an American society, many people settle in the United States of America in hopes of seeking the American Dream, which is the freedom of life, equality, and the aspiration to accomplish individual goals in life. Any person that has lived through the great depression has had their life drastically changed by many hard obstacles that had to be fought in order to sustain an excellent life. Some of the crucial themes of the novel Of Mice and Men is that having your own dream attains ambition, companionship, and assurance, allowing one to succeed in life with meaning and importance. Three major examples show this idea. John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men divulges the longing for friendship, the desperation for the American Dream, and the cruelty of humanity through the creation of his two main characters, George and Lennie.
At the beginning of the novel, George feels responsible for taking care of Lennie because he could have given him to another family. Since Lennie has the mentality of a child and the body of a grown man, George fails to be attentive towards him. However, they are wrong because George is justified in killing Lennie due to him murdering Curley’s wife; George is unable to defend Lennie from others trying to kill him. He is bold enough to take responsibility for Lennie when he gets used to “ Lennie just [coming] along with [him] out workin’” after his aunt died(40). During the Great Depression, people rarely consider each other family and chose to travel alone. Thus, George and Lennie’s relationship is unique. George cares enough to consider him family even though others view their relationship as an anomaly. In addition, their strong bond makes Lennie fear that George will leave him, but he knows that “George wun’t go away and leave [him]”,(73). This part of the novel is significant because although Lennie is scared and thinks like a child, he is still an adult. No one during this time period would take responsibility for him. George has no choice but to kill Lennie due the sufferings that the mentally disabled faced in the 1930s. Identically, Lennie was as hopeless as Candy’s dog who only relied in the assistance of others most of the time. He was described as an old dog who “ain’t no good
George and Lennie always watch each other’s back and care for one another. During the story, Of Mice and Men, George was always telling Lennie “if you get into trouble, go hide
Lennie, like a mouse, is helpless. Lennie relies on George to think for him like mice rely on scraps of food from the dinner table to eat.
Lennie was not very smart and couldn't do much by himself. He had to be told what to do or he wouldn't do anything at all. He fits all the profiles for a retarded person. He doesn't have any self-control. When he starts to panic he gets out of control and even kills Curly's wife because she starts to scream. Lennie loves animals and can't stop talking about them. He always says that when they get their own place that he wants lots of rabbits, his favorite animal. To him George is like his father figure, since Lennie never really had any parents. He is easily amused and panics quickly.
Have you ever read Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck? If so, you probably remember Lennie, George's companion. Throughout the novel, Lennie and George dream of having their own farm. They work on a ranch to save money for their dream farm. Lennie is a big, strong, man with rounded features. He is at times very forgetful, absent-minded, and one-dimensional.
The novella focuses on the dream shared by George and Lennie, which emphasizes upon their independence of other people other than each other. In this sense, they appear to be much more capable of fulfilling their American Dream than others. The reception to George and Lennie’s kinship further draws attention to the difference between the partners and the rest of the workforce, putting attention upon their desolated lifestyles and the social (or more appropriately, antisocial) lifestyles of the men of the day (Goldhurst 52). Steinbeck reinforces this idea through repetitive dialogue between the two characters, which stresses upon their relationship: “But not us! An’ why? Because…because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after
1.) George- A small man who travels with, and takes care of, Lennie. He frequently talks about how much better his life would be without having Lennie to take care of. George's behavior is motivated by the desire to protect Lennie and, eventually, he wants to lead them both to the farm of their dreams.