Comparing John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Americans often try to seek happiness through their success. In Steinbeck’s book Of Mice and Men, and Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby both stories express the characters admiration of achieving the American dream. Both stories explain with example how setting, relationships, and Cause and effect all play a role in the destiny of each character’s American dream.

Barack Obama and George Miller from Of Mice and Men exemplify the aspect of Hope and plans for the future within the american dream.

Living during the Great Depression was very challenging for many people. There was a definite difference in how people lived. Some were struggling to survive during the difficult time of hardship in their lives. Others were forced to survive on their own and often separated from others with feelings of loneliness. In addition many others were afraid of the unknown circumstances revolving around the economic during the depression.

I believe that George should have killed Lennie rather than, the ranch hands. I think this because that Ranch hands would have hurt Lennie but they were still going to kill him. George killed Lennie quick and painlessly, if it were the ranch hands Lennie would have suffered, with George he did not even know he was going to die. Know George could have just let Lennie run and hope that no one finds him, but George even said himself “ Lennie you can’t do anything without me”, or something like that. If George would have let Lennie run it is very likely that he would either, die from starvation, or get in trouble and just keep getting in trouble, or he kills another person again on accident and gets killed from that. Either way Lennie is screwed

In 1920 women got the right to vote. In 1948 President Truman signed the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act. Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to be elected to congress. Women’s rights have come a long way, nowadays women are CEO’sCeo’s of companies and doing great things. Although it wasn’t always like this, in Of Mice and Men, and in Sojourner Truth’s Ain’t I a Woman speech women weren’t treated right. Men thought that women weren’t as strong as them, and couldn’t do a man’s job.

According to to the novel, Nickel and Dimed, “The “working poor,” as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect. Of Mice and Men, shows the same idea, that George and Lenny must work on a low wage farm in order to be able to survive and achieve their goal of owning their own farm. These two literary works display many similar themes that adhere to the economy in the United States, the living conditions of the poor, and to the impossibility of attaining the American dream. John Steinbeck, author of Of Mice and Men, generally argues about the

Of Mice of Men is a book that tells a story of dreams and friendship. The story is set in the Salinas Valley near a ranch in Soledad. The main characters’ names are George and Lennie. Lennie is a strong, heavy-set, tall man. Lennie is very weak minded and suffers from a serious mental illness where he forgets things a lot. George is very different. George is slimmer, shorter, and perhaps more wise. Despite George and Lennie’s differences, they don’t get in the way of their friendship.

Authors find inspiration from many other sources that include people, places, and other pieces of literature. John Steinbeck, the author of Of Mice and Men, found inspiration from Robert Burns poem To a Mouse, and the two pieces of writing draw multiple similarities between the two. Of Mice & Men shares multiple similarities of the poem To a Mouse in more ways than one due to the characteristics shared between the two main characters from each piece of literature, as well as the relationship of the circumstances that each author puts their protagonists into.

The rabbit was telling the truth he should of just listen to him. but George was trying to put him to rest because he was struggling in life.If he would not killed him they would killed him and Lennie. The rabbit was telling him the true. But if Lennie was still alive the cops would been looking for them because they are not supposed to be there. Lennie trust George because in the past they been together that the only friend that Lennie had. George has always told Lennie if he was in trouble to hide be hind a bush.Also in chapter 1 there was a snake trying to kill a rabbit but now on chapter 6 the rabbit was trying to kill the snake because he wanted to get revenge. When George tells Lenni “Gonna do it soon ...Ever’body gonna be nice to you.

“Am I my brother’s keeper? Yes, I am.” Scott, Jill “Brotha”. Since biblical times it has been debated over whether or not “I am my brother’s keeper”. In Mice of Men by John Steinbeck, he takes a deeper look at the meaning of my brother’s keeper. Of Mice and Men is based in California during the 1930’s. It is a tale of two friends who travel across California looking for work, and a place to call their own. While the story is mostly about George Milton, who looks after his travelling companion Lennie Smalls, who has a mental disability; the story is also about how Lennie takes care of George. For instance, they often sit and talk about how they have each other to take care of, and when Crooks makes it seem like Lennie is not coming back, Lennie almost assaults Crooks to protect George. Lennie, more than once in the story offers to leave George, if he feels that would be best, sacrificing his

Human’s are individuals who thrive when met in cooperation with another, and individuals who can’t thrive when met with distractions that stop them. The book “Of Mice and Men” had many features of conflict that contrasted each other. Although Lennie made George feel special, Lennie’s accidental mistakes made George question himself of whether he should stay with Lennie or go on with life by himself.

Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa, once stated that “we owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.” Mandela’s belief reveals that society has a great influence on the minds of its youth. If children are protected from a life of violence, they will grow up to be a strong, healthy, and ideal representation of our world; in contrast, if the youth are exposed to violence and fear, they themselves will become destructive. Books, for instance, are a common influence on the youth due to their varying content. A case in point of books’ effects on young adults is the controversy over John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men because

Today, many are debating upon whether a certain case is mercy or murder killing, and it is very difficult to decide between the two. This directly relates to the novel Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. In this novel, Lennie and George both strive for getting enough money to own a stake some day. Lennie, huge, mentally disabled, and has invincible strength that he’s not aware of. His best friend, George, is slim, hard-working, and intelligent. They are very lonely because of many struggles they experienced in Soledad, their home. Lennie is completely dependent towards George because he promised Lennie’s Aunt that he would always protect Lennie. Despite their love and compassion, George often gets mad at Lennie which hurts Lennie. When they

In life you make many sacrifices, for loved ones, friends and the community… Sometimes there are sacrifices that might hurt a lot, but they are made to protect others. George’s choice to shoot Lennie after he had unintentionally killed Curley's wife, had its own personal reason.

The common emotion the two dogs caused the narrator is embarrassment because in the first paragraph the narrator quotes that “Scotch terrier named Jeannie was giving birth to six puppies in the clothes closet of a fourth floor apartment in New York had the expected seventh at the corner of Eleventh Street and Fifth Avenue during a walk she insisted the narrator take her.” This made the narrator embarrassed because she had the puppies on a walk in public. Then the French poodle was an embarrassing moment for the narrator when it was raining and the poodle had a red rubber bib tucked around her throat and he had to hold “a small green umbrella, really a parasol” and to top that, he walked into a garage with a man who saw the narrator carrying