Similarities Between Of Mice And Men

To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men are different in setting yet share themes and details that are very common to each other. Both set in the 1930’s, the novels explore discrimination and prejudice from the working class. The two books have both white and coloured characters displaying the differences of the culture in America. Discrimination is rife in the worlds of these two novellas along with ideas of hierarchy and peer pressure. All these themes challenge the friendships and relationships in these worlds.

An extremity (in To Kill a Mockingbird) is the rape case of Mayella Ewell. This plot line takes up the main portion of the book and causes tensions and controversy to rise up to the point where death threats are made against

This reflects the ‘group mentality’ of human society and how we will stand back from discrimination if no one else is challenging it.

This is when Of Mice and Men comes into play in reflecting this group mentality in how George and Lennie proposes a plan with one of the workers of the ranch “to build a farm and tend animals with our savings.” This shows how the people want a change and by using their “savings”. By using their savings, this shows how they are willing to take risks to get out of this trap of life as does Tate and Atticus does. Harper Lee uses “savings” instead of wealth to show the amount of risk and liability that they are prepared to take on.

At the same time, George and Lennie also resonate with Jem Finch and Scout Finch in how they believe that prejudice is wrongful and should be challenged all the time. This also reflects of the issues at the time when both of these books were written. These times were turbulent and promised a lot to the all American people but only benefited the rich and created a place of strife and injustice in the black community. This is the main theme and general atmosphere throughout these

This could also be a soothing anecdote to remind the reader that in the end, everything is going to be alright. The anecdote could be purposely put in by the authors to foreshadow what they would want the world to become. This is again shown by Jem and Scout as mentioned above by their love of making the world a better place. This is shown when scout exclaims“oh why , why must they judge”. This shows the amount of frustration shown by the two and how they want this to stop. Scout then proves this later on in the book by trying to help Atticus to stop the imprisoning of Tom