Buttercup Sweet Short Story

When they leave the town the ‘undesirables’ are left behind like lennie for his actions and intelligence, Candy for his old age, Crooks of course for just being black and Curley’s Wife for being female. At first Crooks is alone in his room then lennie shows up and right of the bat he realizes Lennie is going to be easy prey for him to cheer his mood but then it escalates to the point where he realizes he’s gone too far when Candy joins only after reassuring uncomfortably with Crooks to come in. The way they treat each other in the ensuing scene follows a weird pattern of uncomfortability displayed by the characters where Candy is deeply sorrowful but doesn't show it about how he has never given a thought about going into Crooks room to chat

Candy uses expressions such as 'she got the eye ' and goes on to call her a tart. "Well, I think Curley 's married...a tart". These are the first of many derogatory terms used to describe her.

At an old age and only having one hand, Candy is a person that is easy prey. Candy is an old man who is worried that he may be kicked out of the ranch when he gets too old. He is also made to do things that he does not want to do. Carlson, a worker

Candy sees Curley’s wife would show to be a challenge to everyone from the earliest moments, which he justifies his saying so pointing out the "glove fulla Vaseline". This showed the danger of her, as if her husband finds out how she tries to interact with other men in the ranch, his short temper would be sure to cause trouble, especially when Lennie is around with his uncontrollable strengths.

Steinbeck makes use of Candy’s name to emphasise Candy’s nature and his lowly position on the ranch. ‘Candy’ is a synonym for ‘sweets’, which are commonly associated with children. Many people describe children as ‘sweet’ and ‘innocent’ and

Obsession-a state of mental fulfillment, to a continuous,intrusive, and troubling extent. Caring-to feel concern or interest;attach importance to something. It is one thing to care and it is another to be obsessed, but often times if we are not careful, caring can evolve into obsession. In the short story “Royal Jelly” by Roald Dahl, Albert and Mabel’s parenting of their new born baby demonstrates that the border between caring and obsession is often unclear and crossed.

Candy and his dog’s relationship is seen by the audience as very realistic. It is a relationship between a human and a dog companion. As Candy said “Well-hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup,” on page 71, like Candy most people have had their dogs since they were pups and has grown a very close and strong bond with it like Candy has done with his dog. Also if he had it from a pup it’s like a child to him and as an old swamper with no family the dog is his only source of companionship and friend.

“Freddy would you like to ride on my pack again? I forget you’re even up there.”

On a date to tour the city, George tells Cocoa that “Most people are confined to ghettos by economic circumstances…. the young and talented confine themselves by choice” (Naylor 65). The city is an often cruel, unfair place where “there was little enough of [kindness]…to kill off in one shot” (Naylor 59). It is also sometimes an unfriendly place; the city has a kind of cold, informal aura about it. Take for example, the description Cocoa uses to describe the waitress service at the restaurant: “especially when the check came glued to the bottom of your dessert plate…watching a big greasy thumbprint spread slowly over the Thank You printed on the back” (Naylor 13). The unfriendliness is enough for a Southern girl like Cocoa to turn her back on the city and not give it a chance, as so many others had.

She is still the same person she was just a moment ago; snotty, mouthy, and disrespectful. She is shown to have no filter when she says things. Squeaky is referring back to Nursery School when her parents forced her to dress up. She absolutely despised it and thinks “I am not a strawberry. I do not dance on my toes. I run” (Bambara 108). She prides herself on being different from others but does it in a mouthy and unnecessary way. When Squeaky is receiving her pin number from Mr. Pearson, he calls her “Squeaky”. Her thought process is that if she can’t call him Beanstalk, he can’t call her squeaky. “Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker, I correct him and tell him to write it down on his board” (Bambara 109). This shows that Squeaky is snotty. She has no problem biting back against anyone and anything. After this, Mr. Pearson tells Squeaky about how Gretchen, her arch nemesis, will give her a “run for her money”, and he even lightly suggests that Squeaky should go easy on her. “I give him such a look that he couldn’t finish that idea into words” (Bambara 109). The fact that Mr. Pearson even nudges the idea of allowing someone else to win makes her offended and furious. Squeaky is even disrespectful towards adults. She is the same person as she was in the beginning and only shows that side of

Just like George and Lennie, Candy was also lonely and alone in the world, “... I ain’t got no relatives nor nothing...” it was a different matter when he

This affected the story by making the audience really sad when they killed his dog. If he hadn’t been seen as a vulnerable person then Candy could have stopped them from killing his dog. That wouldn’t have made the audience sad. After becoming sad the audience would start to see how bad Candy is treated because of his age and understand how the discrimination was. It also affected the story by putting Candy in a mindset of wanting to get out of there, so he proposes to join George and Lennie in buying the little house. This pretty much sealed the deal for the house, until Lennie killed Curley’s wife.

Candy: Candy injured his hand in a farming accident and lost the use of it. His working career did not go as planned because of this.

Humans connect with each other through their emotions, even when they do not reveal them out loud. Candy is a character from John Steinbeck’s classic book, Of Mice and Men. He had to go through a lot of core damaging events that he had no control of throughout the course of this book. A quick review of Candy is that he is an old, disabled male who feels like he is the most expendable worker on the farm. His character is grounded because he shows emotions that all humans are familiar with.

The Tour starts at the Box, which is closed. Alby explains that they get a new kid once a month and supplies are delivered once a week. Other than that, they don't know anything about where the Box goes or how it operates. Once, they tried to send a boy back in it, but the Box wouldn't move until he got out. Next he explains that the Glade is divided into four sections: Gardens, Blood House, Homestead, and Deadheads. Thomas will spend the next two weeks training for a different job until they find the one he fits best. Throughout the Tour, Thomas is annoyed by his inability to ask questions, and he wonders why the people who cleared his memory only removed certain memories. Why can he remember what the animals were called, but not where that memory comes from? When they reach the South Door, Alby tells Thomas that he's been there for two years, and although many boys have died trying, no one has been able to solve the Maze. The walls move at night so it's nearly impossible to map, and more importantly, no one is ever allowed outside the walls except the Runners. For some