Graysen Kronschnabel
Of Mice and Men
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The Dream:
Is Steinbeck suggesting that progress can’t be made without the dream You have to dream before your dreams can come true”- A.P.J Abdul Kalam. John Steinbeck seems to suggest with his tales. John Steinbeck seems to suggest in his novella Of Mice and Men That progress can’t be made without strong focus on your dreams. This novella rings throughout the entire story and it doesn't just touch the main characters it spans throughout the entire story. So let's jump in and find out why I think that
Steinbeck demonstrates his belief on how you need strong focus on your dreams with in general all of the characters and especially with his portrayal of how the dream affects people. We are first
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They ain't got nothing to look ahead to... With us it ain't like that we got a future(Steinbeck 14). This is where the idea of the dream is first introduced and in Steinbeck's own wording of it he seems to suggest that you do need a dream to guide your future or even to have a future in general. Another thing that steinbeck suggest about the future and focus on a dream is that it can power you to take risks that might not have an advantage to you in the end. "If you get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an' hide in the brush" (steinbeck 15). Steinbeck suggest that the dream which compels them to go work on the farm but the farm could have a dangerous effect on what happens to George and Lennie. The dream even seems to compel them when they get on the farm and the ranch …show more content…
That's 350 bucks I'd put in”. (Steinbeck 59) That's candy life saving that he is willing to sacrifice for the dream and that would go along way in theory for how to take care of his own dream and help with the other two's dream. Now other people have come through the ranch spewing about the dream in their own words and crooks the stable buck realizes that and he talks about how people are always looking for this dream and how they lose sight of it when the money comes and they just go to the cat houses and blow all their
Throughout Steinbeck’s novel, he uses the dream farm as a large symbol. The dream farm represents the American dream. The American dream is to own their own land and be in charge of themselves. ¨With us it ain like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit in
Dreams and hope are all worth while but in the book it shows how hard it is to get your dreams. In the book Of Mice and Men the first scene is of them fleeing from their job. The job was contributing to the dream but since there was conflict they had to run otherwise there would be no dream. When they get to there new job a worker over hears their dream and wants to get in on it. “you know a place like that?” said candy. Said on page 29 on the ipad. So they agree and they're way closer to their dream then they ever thought they would be. “George spat on the floor disgustedly. “We got ten bucks between us.” Then he said thoughtfully, “look, if me an’ lennie work a month an’ don’t spen’ nothing, we’ll have a hundred bucks. That’d be four fifty. I bet we could swing her for that. Then you an’ lennie could go get her started an’ i’d get a job an’ make up the res’, an’ you could sell eggs an’ stuff like
When Lennie and George encounter Slim, another ranch hand, they automatically respect him and react positively towards him. “This was Slim, the jerkline skinner. His hatchet face was ageless. He might have been thirty-five or fifty. His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. His hands, large and lean, were as delicate in their action as those of a temple dancer.” (Steinbeck, 33-34) Slim is the noblest of the ranch as the only character who seems to be at peace with his circumstances and his life. The other characters view slim as wise and respectable man and often go to him for guidance, as the only person who has achieved what he wants in life.
George Milton is a short man with a dark of a face with restless eyes
by the remarks by some of the men and the way his rights are taken
(Steinbeck 57). However, such a dream does not come without hard work. George, Lennie and eventually Candy, set certain goals in order to be able to pursue their utopia of the farm. They need to earn the money needed for the farm, plan and organize the future to prevent bankruptcy, and find a way to purchase the land before time runs out. With these goals in mind, George recognizes the need to spend their meager earnings wisely and save money.
Martin Luther King's' speech "I have a dream" showed that no matter race, beliefs or gender, people can improve their destiny. Through determination, Martin Luther King and his followers managed to make the American dream more attainable for millions of black Americans. The American dream consists of having equal access to opportunities for economic prosperity through hard work. This belief was incredibly important, during the novel's times Of Mice and Men, as farmers abandoned their land, due to natural disasters in the dust bowl, and moved to California to pursue their dream. This also affects the characters Crooks, Curley's wife and George. In his novel, John Steinbeck
What is the role of dreams in John Steinbeck’s novella ‘Of Mice and Men’ In John Steinbeck’s novella, ‘Of Mice and Men,’ the role of dreams plays a very important part. The book was written during the ‘Great Depression,’ which occurred just after the well known ‘Wall Street Crash.’ The book Of Mice and Men was set in the depression of the 1930’s in California in a place called Soledad. Men travelled around looking for any work they could find, they had to leave families and their homes just to make money. Even firms and companies went bankrupt; these were depressing and desperate times, with no hope and definitely no future.
The typical American Dream of the 1930s was that everyone wanted a house and land to call their own; however, most men ended up living in a room full of men working on someone else’s ranch. Steinbeck illustrates this dream as impossible through the failure of George and Lennie’s achievement of their dream. In fact, George admits that their dream was destined to fail, “I think I kno...
Everyone dreams about something. However, it is important to know when the right time to dream is, and when to wake up. A major theme that Steinbeck conveys in the book Of Mice and Men is the pursuit of the American Dream. The book tells the story of two men trying to earn a better life. Their American Dream was to get their own place somewhere and live together. Although, through the characterization of Lennie, the symbolism of rabbits, and the setting of the book, Steinbeck is trying to convey that people cannot continue to live in a dream.
In Of Mice and Men, it seems an incontrovertible law of nature that dreams should go unfulfilled. From George and Lennie’s ranch to Curley’s wife’s stardom, the characters’ most cherished aspirations repeatedly fail to materialize. However, the fact that they do dream—often long after the possibility of realizing those dreams has vanished—suggests that dreaming serves a purpose in their lives. What the characters ultimately fail to see is that, in Steinbeck’s harsh world, dreams are not only a source of happiness but a source of misery as well.
The American Dream as portrayed in of mice and men, at a first glance, appears to be owning land. This is demonstrated in George and Leonie’s dream to own a farm. It is a comfort to Lennie to have George tell. George frequently dream about the dream and how good life will be oce they own land “we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and—“ Lennie finishes“An’ live off the fatta the lan” (Steinbeck 14). This explains. A closer look, nonetheless, reveals that owing land is merely the common perception of the American Dream, and in actuality the American Dream in Of Mice And Men is, indeed, freedom. This can be explained it was land that gave these men freedom. As George he is sittinf realizes that once he
The American Dream in the novel Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, is an unattainable ideal having influence on the theme throughout the novel. In Of Mice and Men, two males named, Lennie and George, began working at a ranch during the Great Depression in order to make ends meet. The theme of the American Dream is found throughout the book, because practically all characters at one time or another wish for another life, better than their own. This leads each of them to their demise. Blinded by what is unattainable, each character uses their aspirations as a source of hope but their ambitions lead them to face corruption and cruelties throughout the novel. In this case, the American Dream leads to death, loss, and hopelessness. The American Dream is portrayed through the character: Lennie, Curley’s wife, Crooks, and Candy. These characters were hopeless, encountered loss, and even through all of this maintained hope. The American Dream, in this novel, is a forlorned delusion that is only present in fairytales.
John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men tells the story of two friends, George Milton and Lennie Small and their struggle as migrant workers in California during the great depression and dustbowl era. The pair had escaped from an incident in Weed, California where Lennie, a mentally handicapped but gentle man, was wrongly accused of rape when he touched a woman’s dress because of his obsession with petting soft objects. One of the major themes from the novel is that having a dream brings friendship, hope, and determination, inspiring one to venture onward in life with a feeling of significance. There are three main instances that portray this idea. The first instance is the memory that Crook has of his father’s chicken ranch. Next, the second instance is the death of Candy’s dog and joining George and Lennie’s dream of owning land. Finally, the third significant instance is George and Lennie’s dream of having their own farm. These three instances display the theme that having high aspirations breed hope, friendship, and determination, enabling one to strive onward with a sense of self-worth or importance.
This is first shown in how Candy reacts to George telling him about his and Lennie’s plan when Candy responds with, “S’pose I went in with you guys. That's three hundred an’ fifty bucks I’d put in”(Steinbeck 59). This shows how immediately after hearing that George and Lennie are saving up to buy their own place, Candy offers to put a great deal of money in if he can join them. This reveals that Candy has been focusing on any opportunity like this to get a place that he can call his own since Candy acts without hesitation by offering to help them. These actions build up to the fact that Candy’s focus is to feel secure in a place with people that he can trust as shown when he says, “Something’ he could live on and there couldn’t nobody throw him off of it”(Steinbeck 76). This reveals that Candy’s dream is to not be able to be kicked out of somewhere for once since he is afraid the he will lose his job and have nowhere to go, and explains why Candy has become so focused on helping George and Lennie achieve their dream in exchange for a place that he can call home. Candy is someone who is used to knowing people who go from job to job without having a real goal, so of course, when he meets George and Lennie who plan to get their own place, he would