Of Mice and Men’ is a novel about people. Are there too many
cripples, misfits and unusual characters in the novel to consider
Steinbeck’s portrayal as true life?
Steinbeck’s novel is based on ordinary people during the American
Depression. Steinbeck has an understanding of how migrant workers were
and how it was as he had his childhood in California near Salinas
Valley. During the period in which the novel was wrote was written
migrant workers went from ranch to ranch working for money never
really having a secure job as new technology in machinery made it
cheaper to harvest crops. This introduces the two main characters
George and Lennie, migrant workers, who do not fit into 1930’s
society. The novel based is on characters that represent different
walks of life during the period illustrating the American culture.
Steinbeck portrays the American culture in a condensed version
occurring only on a ranch, showing the grim truces of the society,
when the novel was written
In Steinbeck’s novel the character Candy is a man who has gone past
his prime of his life. He has a stumped hand and therefore he is too
maimed to be working in the fields, he can be seen as a cripple in the
novel. The result of this is that he has menial job as a swamper. To
represent the fears of time Steinbeck writes about Candy being worried
about getting the ''can'' as a result of his unimportance on the
ranch, and this is shown when Steinbeck wrote
''I ain’t much good with o’ny hand. I lost my hand right here on this
ranch. That’s why they give me a job swampin''
This suggests that the job was only given to Candy out of sympathy.
Furthermore Candy saying ''I ain’t much good'' shows his awareness of
his own situation, being wo...
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...is at the end of the novel.
''’Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?’''
This enhances the social statement made by Steinbeck, with Slim
consoling George but the other more usual characters, Curley and
Carlson, not coming together after the whole plot Steinbeck keeps them
apart and socially distant, unaware of the situation George is in. the
novel is also concluded within the novel where the image of the water
snake an the heron. The whole novel is summarised, with the calmness
to the heron snatching the water snake. Steinbeck implies this animal
image that humans in a society live like animals and how that we have
not evolved to be more tolerable of peoples differences; the
consequence of this is Lennie’s death. Steinbeck conveys marvellously
that this will keep transpiring as the heron returns to the pool to
catch another water snake.
The two essays “On Being a Cripple” by Nancy Mairs and “A Plague of Tics” by David Sedaris are excellent pieces of work that share many similarities. This paper would reflect on these similarities particularly in terms of the author, message and the targeted audience. On an everyday basis, people view those with disabilities in a different light and make them conscious at every step. This may be done without a conscious realisation but then it is probably human nature to observe and notice things that deviate from the normal in a society. In a way people are conditioned to look negatively at those individuals who are different in the conventional
Since the stroke, he arranged for someone else to continue the work, and a number of errors the worker had made became apparent, that he says might indicate that the worker was not coping with the
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“I am a Cripple,” when people typically hear these words they tend to feel bad for that person, but that is exactly what Mair does not want. She prefers that people treat her the same as they would if she did not have the disease. Throughout the essay, Mair discuses her disease openly. She uses an optimistic tone, so that the reader will not recoil with sadness when they hear her discuss the disease and how it affects her life. In Nancy Mair’s essay “On Being A Cripple,” Mair uses her personal stories, diction, and syntactical structures to create an optimistic tone throughout the essay, so that the audience can better connect story.
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“Of Mice and Men” was written bye John Steinbeck and is a fictional book. “Of Mice and Men” is a book about two life long friends named George and Lennie. They go to a farm to do some farm work after having to run away from their old town Weed. In their new farm, they meet many people including Curley, a little boxer guy who hates big guys like Lennie, and Curley’s wife, who is a tart. Lennie and George have many grand adventures on the farm, but one day while George is out playing horseshoes, Lennie accidentally kills Curley’s wife. Lennie runs away but when the guys come back to find Curley’s wife dead, George is forced to kill his friend. The four people responsible for Lennie’s death are George, Curley’s wife, Lennie, and Curley.
images he leaves the reader with is George and Slim walking off as Curly says “ Now
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discusses his life as a kid, and how he was accidentally placed in a vocational program in his
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In the touching and gripping tale of John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, he explains many themes throughout the books. One of the major themes is loneliness, which is shown throughout many different characters, for example, Curley’s wife, the stable buck (Crooks), and Lennie.
It could be said that in modern industrial society, Disability is still widely regarded as tragic individual failing, in which its “victims” require care, sympathy and medical diagnosis. Whilst medical science has served to improve and enhance the quality of life for many it could be argued that it has also led to further segregation and separation of many individuals. This could be caused by its insistence on labelling one as “sick”, “abnormal” or “mental”. Consequently, what this act of labelling and diagnosing has done, is enforce the societal view that a disability is an abnormality that requires treatment and that any of its “victims” should do what is required to be able to function in society as an able bodied individual.