Plot Outline: The events of Of Mice and Men begin with the two main characters, George and Lennie A Longer Short Form: Of Mice and Men Four main characters: 1. George – Even though George is described as being short in stature, his strong personality more than makes up for his vertical ineptitude. He is responsible for his friend Lennie’s safety as they travel to and finally work at the ranch. George is filled with the desire to own his own piece of land and farm it with Lennie. George continuously tells Lennie about his dream because Lennie, because of his retardation, has the ardent curiosity of a child. 2. Lennie – Lennie is a big, slightly retarded, awkward man who is dependent on his close friend George for protection and guidance. Lennie’s love of petting soft things and underestimation of his strength leads to disaster. 3. Slim – Slim is the farm’s mule driver. He is both an authority figure and a greatly respected man. The farm hands, from time to time, ask him for advice and they eagerly await his answers. He is quite impressed by the loyalty between George and Lennie because he thinks that no on in the world cares about anyone else. 4. Curley – The respectable Boss’s son, he embodies all that his father is not: he is cruel and merciless towards the ranch-hands. His wife who voices her dislike towards her husband, is known to be a flirt and, like an extremely protective husband, Curley becomes irate with jealousy. Two minor characters: 1. Candy – A farm hand who is known for his extremely old dog that is both blind in one eye and extremely pungent. Candy refuses to kill his dog on the account that he has had his dog for too many years. Candy is appeased when he is given ... ... middle of paper ... ... no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want” – George pages 11 – 12 2. “I ain’t got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain’t no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin’ to fight all the time. . . ‘Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin’ around with a guy an’ you can’t get rid of him” – George page 45 3. “I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we'd never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would” – George page 103 4. “Never you mind. A guy got to sometimes” – Slim page 117 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Of Mice and Men: Style. [2] Of Mice and Men.
The first being Candy’s old dog. Candy has raised that dog up from a pup, keeping it close to his heart. The dog shows the nostalgia Candy has for his youth.The rabbits mentioned continuously in the novella happens to represent Lennie’s happiness. Lennie enjoys the feel of soft things, often picking up mouses along the way of George and his travel. The little pup given to Lennie is a symbol of the fate of the weak in the face of the strong. Just as Lennie is dependent on George, the pup was completely dependent on
Candy’s dog is very precious to him, not only because he had been with him ever since he was a pup but also because he could see himself in the dogs place after a very short period of time. He was getting old and would be of no use soon. Just like the dog, everyone would be eager to get rid of him. He had lost his hand at the ranch. He is disabled, both, physically and mentally.
As Slim and George arrived at the bar, neither of them said a word. Slim looked at George but George avoided his attempt at making eye contact. They walked in and sat at a round wooden table that looked to be a decade old. George sat down at one end and Slim sat down on the other directly across.
Comparing the Beginning of the Novel and the Film Of Mice and Men Like any writer or director, John Steinbeck and Gary Sinise set out to. grab the audience's attention. Although the novel and the film are Based on the same story, John Steinbeck and Gary Sinise immediately involve the audience in different ways. When writing "Of Mice and Men" John Steinbeck draws the reader in by. mainly describe the setting.
Has loneliness ever creeped up your spine? Has the palm of lonesome ever managed slapped you across the cheek, leaving a mark that is unable to be faded; physical pain from such a mentally-fitted emotion? Of Mice and Men is a book about two men - George and Lennie - who travel together, both having a dream of grabbing a plot of land to begin their own farm. Furthermore, foreshadowing is an important aspect of this book; but, what is foreshadowing? To answer this in Layman's terms, foreshadowing is the process of hinting at future events. In Of Mice and Men, there are various traces of the writer’s use of foreshadowing. This includes the title itself, Lennie accidentally harming various creatures, Crook’s skeptic-attitude towards George and Lennie, and the general inhumanity of people at that time.
dog since it was a pup. His dog is his only friend; old same like
When asked about John Steinbeck’s career, people often refer to Steinbeck as a playwright, journalist, and a well-known novelist. The book Of Mice and Men is a popular novel by John Steinbeck and a required read for most high school students. Most of Steinbeck 's novels have a central theme focusing on the relationship between man and his environment. The American dream for George and Lennie, two of the main characters in Of Mice and Men, is to have a place of their own, to be respected, and to work hard for everything they earn and deserve. In Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, the land and a hope of a better life becomes the talisman of an American dream for Lennie and George that is left unfulfilled.
Steinbeck connects Candy with his dog in order to suggest that humans have created a society where the weak cannot survive. Earlier in the book, Candy describes his dog as the “best damn sheep dog I ever seen” (Steinbeck 44). However, in lines 9 and 10, Candy reiterates that the other workers shot his dog because “he wasn’t no good to himself nor nobody else.” As soon as the dog outgrows its usefulness by becoming old and blind, the other tenants team up to ensure its death, suggesting how society joins together to dispose of those who are weak. Steinbeck then connects Ca...
Candy was an old swamper, and was missing one hand, his dog was just like him, very old and in poor shape. The poor old dog was blind, deaf, had no teeth and everyone complained about it smelling horrible, “we can’t sleep with him stinkin’ around here. (Steinbeck:47) All the farm hands believe that killing the dog was in the favor of the dog’s own good.
do it, he just does it because it feel like the right thing to do. Candy felt
Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, the winner of 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature, both depict the harsh living conditions and challenging hardships migrant farm workers had to face during the period of Great Depression. In the novella Of Mice and Men, two men with the names George and Lennie travel to hunt ranch jobs in California, in the hopes of having a farm of their own one day. However, Lennie is mentally retarded and always stirs up trouble, eventually leading to George’s mercy killing of Lennie, an action that terminates the pursuit of their American Dream. In the latter novel, the Joad family, like many other poor tenant farmers from Oklahoma, is forced off from its land and into the journey to California, seeking for jobs, land, dignity, and a better future. Although the family works assiduously, its dreams are crushed by the cruel reality, including the separation and death of family members, the thin chance of employment, and the ill treatments from the rich Californian farm owners. Some of the recurring themes, shared by both novels, are humans’ inhumanity towards others, the powerful nature of relationships and the impossibility of the American Dream.
Many critics consider the novel, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, as one of the greatest short works of fiction. I think this was a great novel with amazing detail. It has certain qualities and themes such as these: the importance of relationships, responsibility to others, the nature of home, respect for old age, the difference between right and wrong, and the evil of oppression and abuse. We can learn from these themes and see how we use it in our lives. By using examples from the book as well we can see how this happens more clearly.
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