In steinbeck's novel of mice and men, the main characters ,george and lennie, are described as itinerant workers. Since the great depression in 1929 there were many itinerant workers travelling around the country looking for work. George and Lennie have a symbotic relationship which is shown throughout the novel.
The poem 'Nettles' was written by Vernon Scannell, this poem displays a typical father son relationship.There is a feelimg of war and revenge with links to the military. This poem explores the impulse for a parent to protect their child, just like george is trying to protect lennie from the outside world but lennie gets hurt. The poet tries and fails to protect his son just like george tries and fails to protect lennie. The line 'My son would often feel sharp wounds again' creats a strong image, even though george killed lennie his wounds will always be there, Life is an endless battle you cannot protect chilldren from hurt.Just like life at the ranch it was a never ending battle in the poem the nettle bed was a symbol for dangers of war , the ranch was a symbol of life. 'And then i took my hook and honed the blade, ans it went outside and slashed in fury with it' This line contains alliteration,hyperbole, and repition. The line represents when george protects lennie and stands up for him , george had to resort in dreadful measures in order to save lennie. 'Stood upright anymore, next task, i lit a funeral pyre to burn the falling dead' This line contains personification, it reoresents when lennie dies, he was saved from burning, which was a common punishment at the time, it shows how George tried to deliver something nice in a terrible way.
The poem Brothers is about two brothers and a friend, one is nine and the o...
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...ink. Last chance saloon is a cliché and it refers to the last place your going to drink, this suggests illegal drinking, just like where george used to go. Silver bullets represent kisses. 'And this is love,high noin,calamity, hard liqor in the old last chance saloon' , this is a cliché, everything george does for lennie is out of love , the sun is at its peak and the whole thing is a calamity. 'Take this,and this, and this, and this, and this' reoresents geirge giving something horrible in a loving way, this shows underlined bitterness and motifs of a western genre and slim is the mediator in the poem. 'Like guns slung from the pockets of my hips,im all alone' this line contains similies, and extended metaphor, george is all alone after he kills lennie, when george steals the gun he conceals it which shows he wants to kill lennie himself rather than curley doing it.
John Steinbeck wrote a story about two men that only had each to depend on. Many of George and Lennie's struggles come from things they cannot control such as Lennie's mental issues. George and Lennie are very poor and they work on farms together, but they have to move a lot because Lennie always does something stupid. The greatest tragedy in Mice and Men was when Lennie was left alone with Curley's wife. She was the reason why Lennie ended up being killed. She knew of to manipulate others to get her way and that is what she relies on most of the time.
The friendship with George and Lennie is shown throughout the whole book. Of Mice and Men talks about the way the 1930’s were and the work you did to earn money (Cook). George and Lennie had to work on a ranch so they could earn money. George is the one to always take care of Lennie when he needs help. George and Lennie have a dream of getting a farm throughout the whole book and it shows. George tells Lennie in the book “O.K. Someday, we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and,” Lennie interrupts and says “An’ live off the fatta the lan’, (Steinbeck)” George wants Lennie around even though Lennie is a little slow in the head. George wants to help Lennie because he knows no one will help him if he is not around.
In The book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck , George and Lennie are a pair of men
In the novel, Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck used George and Lennie's relationship and the theme of hope to point out the loneliness in the novel. The novel starts off and is set in Soledad which means lonely. At the beginning they get a job working on a farm together. Lennie is a little retarded and has great physical strength that isn't too controllable. As they work from ranch to ranch, Lennie relies on George for guidance and help. Rather than wasting their earnings, they try to save it in the hope of buying a place of their own. While working at one ranch they meet a worker named Candy who tries to help them financially. Before their dream can be fulfilled, Lennie kills the wife of the boss's son. As the novel concludes George must kill Lennie for his own benefit. Later Lennie goes into town and abandons his dream by spending his money.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is about the friendship between George Milton and Lennie Small, who travel together due to the fact that Lennie suffered a childlike mental illness and someone needed to take care of him. Lennie only listens to his friend George, no matter what George may say. This novel shows characteristics of their true friendship and George's compassion towards his companion. George shows acts of love and kindness out of sympathy for Lennie, yet he also seems to show an unconscious effort to make up for Lennie’s mental impairment.
In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck walks us through the journey of best friends named George and Lennie, who work on a ranch during the Great Depression in California’s Salinas Valley to achieve their goals. Throughout the book, Steinbeck suggest that social hierarchy and classification can lead toward a treatment to lower class workers, different genders and race, and the mentally disabled, when compared to white men workers.
John Steinbeck's timeless novel Of Mice and Men is a somewhat controversial story of the hardships of life. To illustrate these hardships, Steinbeck takes the reader back to an era of bankruptcies, migrant workers, and drifters. Today, this time, the 1930's, is branded the Great Depression. The quest of George and Lennie, two migrant workers, is an example of the dilemma of thousands of homeless and unemployed men in America during the Great Depression era (Ito 39). The harsh circumstances presented by the Great Depression reveal a darker side of human nature. In order to survive, a man's priority had to be himself. Through his characters, Steinbeck exposes truths about people and life in general.
“Of Mice and Men” is a 1930’s novella written by the American, John Steinbeck. It is a tale not only of isolation and loneliness, violence, dreams, and the competitive urge to dominate others, but also a tale of the journey of true companionship. True companionship is emphasized by indescribable loyalty and extreme devotion between two men, George and Lennie, during the hardships of the Great Depression. The story takes place south of Soledad, California during the 1930s and is told from the perspective of a third-person omniscient narrator. The story’s genre is fiction and tragedy; a tragedy so well crafted by John Steinbeck, that the conclusion leaves the reader questioning the inherent contradictions in both loyalty and devotion. George shows extreme devotion and loyalty to Lennie, serving as Lennie’s “guardian angel” – sticking up for him and staying with him in difficult situations, which eventually leads to heartbreaking sacrifices.
Of mice and men is a novella written by Steinbeck in the 1930’s at the time of the American great depression. Two migrant workers George and Lennie are the protagonists; through these characters Steinbeck highlights many themes. The themes presented in this novel can be compared with those in the ‘Moon on the Tides’ Anthology poems for example ‘Brothers’, ‘Farmer’s Bride’ and ‘In Paris with You’.
Nettles by Vernon Scannell is a poem about the love of father and son. The poem is about the feelings of the poet towards the son and the nettles. He becomes very angry because the nettles hurt his son, the anger and frustration the poet has towards these nettles is seen as the Nettles being soldiers, we know this as the poet refers the nettles being ‘recruits’ and he says ' that regiment of spite'. The
They are a ‘regiment of spite’, and are described using the metaphor ‘spears’. Within the first three lines of the poem, the nettles are presented as aggressive and a violent group of soldiers to reflect the speaker’s need to protect his child. The speaker is shown as taking revenge against the nettles, the writer again personifies them, describing them as a ‘fierce parade’ as if they were soldiers standing to attention, cut down by his scythe. The nettles are given a ‘funeral pyre’. Additionally, Scannell uses alliteration when he says ‘white blisters beaded on his tender skin’. The alliteration using the ‘b’ sounds suggests that the swelling, painful injuries, and the child’s skin is ‘tender’, a strong contrast to the language used to describe the nettles. Similarly, Armitage uses strong language to describe injuries of the husband in ‘The Manhunt’. Many of the first lines of the couplets have prominent verbs, reflecting the activities of the wife as she conducts her ‘search’. Words and phrases like ‘handle and hold’, ‘explore’, and ‘mind and attend’ are all referencing to the carful treatment of her husband’s injured body; this suggests her patient care for her husband’s mental state. The speaker uses metaphors to refer to parts of the husband’s body. Armitage compares them to inanimate objects rather than to living things. He says that his jaw is a ‘blown hinge’. Going into depth, this could
George and Lennie are both main characters in Of Mice and Men. They both have journeys that they go on throughout the book. George was a quick-witted man who cared for Lennie. George took on the job of caring for Lennie when his aunt died. He frequently spoke about how his life would be better if he did not have to care for Lennie. Although he spoke of this often he was devoted to Lennie and to delivering them the farm
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.
A specific example of a man who tosses three girls out the window and then plunges to his own death serves to show us the horror of the situation. the poem then continues on to tell us of in humane conditions in Scotland. It ends by telling us about the slaves who picked and planted the cotton. The speaker seems to be telling us a story in order to inform us of what's going on in the shirt industry.Robert Pinsky doesn't have many obvious examples of diction in his work, although hints of it can be found. There is a simile in the first line of the tenth stanza.
Of Mice and Men is a novel by John Steinbeck. This book is an analogy about what it means to be a human. George and Lennie share the ambition to own their own ranch, but they encounter obstacles that stand in the way. Ironically, Lennie will become the greatest obstacle in them achieving their dream. This novel was first published in 1937, which is one of the most important aspects of the book. The reason why it is one of the most important aspects of the book is because one result of the Great Depression was a lack of steady jobs, which increased the amount of nomadic workers. When Steinbeck wrote this novel, ranch hands were beginning to be replaced by machinery and their way of life was disappearing fast.