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Describe loneliness in a story
Analysis the character of mice and men comparative george and lennie
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The novel "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck explores the theme of loneliness. This is reflected in the speeches of the characters. George and Lennie are the main characters of this novel. However, they are not lonely because they have each other "Because you got me an' I got you", declares Lennie. They are always ready to help and to protect each other. Steinbeck contrasts this companionship with the loneliness of the other characters. Curley´s wife is one of them. We meet Curley´s wife in the second chapter. She is the wife of the boss' son, a cruel dishonest man who won a boxing trophy. In the first scene she appeared like a flash without anyone expecting her. She was a beautiful woman as Steinbeck described, "Roughed lips and wide-space eyes and heavily made up. Her hair hung in the little rolled clusters" (Chapter 2, pg 32). Curley´s wife was an attractive but also a superficial woman. She hid herself and filled her loneliness between the layers of make-up. This wall that cover her didn't let us see her real person, the person who needed to talk with someone, the person who needed to feel loved, the lonely person. We don't see Curley´s wife again until chapter four. She was looking for someone to talk with on a Saturday night. Everyone was out except for Lennie, Candy and Crooks. So she went to talk with them. However, she preferred to talk with someone else: - "Sat'iday night. Ever'body out doin' som'ping. Ever'body! An' what I am doing? Standin' here talkin' to a bunch of bindle stiffs -- a nigger an' a dum-dum and a lousy ol' sheep -- an' likin' it because they ain't nobody else." (Chapter 4, pg. 78) How lonely was Curley's wife that night, to go to the stable and want to talk with them? She felt so lonely that it didn't matter with whom she was talking. She only wanted to feel the presence of someone next to her. She wanted to feel she was alive. The next chapter also explores Curley's wife loneliness.
and they stuttered, blushed, / and said you know Black English, / applying a term from that/
“I don’t give a fuck what a nigga say,” for a word that many different things I think most people would agree that in this since nigga means a person preferably black. Nigga is a derogatory and racist word that refers to Black people. But, we, meaning Black people, still use it. We do not care, nigga flows off the tough. In using nigga we not only show disdain but become a nigga when using it and we’re ok with it. This is why I choose Katt Williams, 2006 comedy skit Pimp Chronicle Part 1. In William’s skit he use nigga some 221 times, in 45 minute, that’s about four times per minute. I could not find a better example of someone using nigga. 221 times, he must have something interesting to say if he can find 221 reason to say the word and you know what he did. I could not help but laugh it was funny, but at the end of the day I knew though it may have been funny it was still morally wrong. In Williams, he uses nigga in ways that support Black stereotypes, which make the audience laugh. There is nothing worng with that a mans
diatribe, is popular in schools country-wide. In its way, this is a tour de force of black English and underworld slang, as
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.
MacNeil, Robert, and William Cran. "Bad-Mouthing Black English." Do You Speak American? Orlando: Harcourt, 2005. 115-49. Print.
alone just to try make some money. This was a very bad period in the
know how powerful he is and likes to pet animals. The other men on the
African American Slang has had many other names: Ebonics, Jive, Black English, and more. The Oxford English Dictionary defines slang (in reference to language) in three different ways: 1) the special vocabulary used by any set of persons of a low or disreputable character; language of a low and vulgar type 2) the special vocabulary or phraseology of a particular calling or profession; the cant or jargon of a certain class or period 3) language of a highly colloquial type, considered as below the level of standard educated speech, and consisting either of new words or of current words employed in some special sense. Whatever one’s perspective on slang, it is a natural and inevitable part of language. In this paper I will discuss examples of current slang being used that some people may not understand.
...to find and envelope, within an envelope, within an envelope, within an envelope just to find a letter that said “to Whom It May Concern . . . Keep This Nigger-Boy Running.” The narrator wakes with his grandfather’s laughter ringing in his ears, making it seem that he is the clown on the white society circus (or that he is the puppet on the white Americans show).
In his novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck depicts the essential loneliness of California ranch life in the 1930s. He illustrates how people are driven to find companionship. There were so many moments of loneliness and sadness throughout the novel, including many deaths. Following the deaths, they were very unexpected making the novel more intense and latch onto it more.
Throughout American history there has always been some form of verbal acrobatics or jousting involving rhymes within the Afro-American community. Signifying, testifying, shining of the Titanic, the Dozens, school yard rhymes, prison ?jail house? rhymes and double Dutch jump rope rhymes, are some of the names and ways that various forms of raps have manifested. Modern day rap music finds its immediate roots in the toasting and dub talk over elements of reggae music (George, 1998)....
These are the opening lines to the famous NWA’s “Niggaz 4 Life”. The opening dialogue consists of people complaining of their use of the word nigga, asking why they have to use it. They give several reasons: because of how often police harass them, because it fits in with the rest of their language, because they will always be black, because “it’s just the way shit has to be”, and later in the same album, because of their pasts. My personal take on the n-word as a person of the African-American community is that it is overused and, quite frankly, normalizing it.
"I said come here, nigger, and bust up this chiffarobe for me, I got a nickel for you.
The video “White and Nerdy” by Weird Al Yankovic is a parody of the original song “Ridin’ Dirty” by Chamillionaire. The parody provides the viewer with a descriptive exposition on the nerd stereotype. Several aspects of the video including the title, lyrics, and parody of the hip hop style all contrast the ‘white identity’ to the particular view of ‘black identity’. Particularly, the props, costumes, and settings shown in the parody video help convey Yankovic’s message.
Don't speak to me nigga, you not important I'm focused They say I'm nutty, picnic basket Not short of a sandwich A peanut butter, Boyce Watkin's a faggot Please come and get me