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The author, Steinbeck, uses his own personal experience to “serve as an inspiration…” (Johnson 1) when writing this particular story. His past experiences also helped him for the future. Lennie, of all characters, is the least dynamic. He undergoes a significant amount of change and develops throughout the story. He has been isolated with George throughout his life. His sole purpose in life is to make George happy and to own a farm with George and take care of the soft rabbits. Lennie is the most innocent and defenseless. He also is the largest and strongest, which does not help in certain situations. Lennie is the protagonist in the story. He gains the readers sympathy by his intellectual disability and helplessness. Lennie murders things by accident such as the mouse in his pocket, the puppy and Curley’s wife. He enjoys the touch of and somehow uses those murders and experiences to scare him from doing it again. George’s opinion means the most to him.

In the harsh reality of America after the Great Depression, dreaming seemed liked a luxury. In John Steinbeckś book Of Mice and Men, Lennie and George are close migrant workers, they work on farms and they sometimes run into trouble and have to relocate because of Lennie's mental disability. The dream of owning their own piece of land someday, but their plan won't go right because of Lennie and mental disability that get, not only him but George in trouble. In the novel, Steinbeck uses various examples of foreshadowing, which indicates a future even. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to create the driving idea of the unobtainable American Dream in the 1930s, through foreshadowing plans go wrong, the inability to procure George and Lennieś farm, Curley's wife death by Lennie, and finally Lennieś inevitable death by George.

Many people have dreams. Some of them achieve these dreams while others give up on them for various reasons. In the book “Of Mice and Men”, by John Steinbeck, George, Lennie have a dream of owning their own ranch their dreams were crushed because: Lennie doesn't know how to stop using his strength, lennie killed Curley's wife, and the incident in weed. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie hope to achieve their dream of owning a ranch by working together with Candy, but their dream is completely destroyed when Lennie accidentally kills Curley’s wife.

The common emotion these two dogs caused the narrator was embarrassment. In paragraph one, it talks about a Scotch terrier that had puppies out in the public. This states, “...my moment of keenest embarrassment was the time a Scotch terrier named Jeannie, who had just had six puppies...had the unexpected seventh and last at the corner of Eleventh Street and Fifth Avenue…” This would be quite embarrassing just due to the fact that it took place on a street corner. While the narrator’s dog was having its seventh and final puppy, there were people walking, biking, and driving cars. Lots of people would have seen this which would be a huge embarrassment to practically anybody. Also, in paragraph two it clearly states that the other dog, a large

“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.

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

We would all put our close ones out of pain or trouble if we had a chance. In the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, two men are employed on a small working ranch in northern California, sometime during the 1930s, during the great depression. They attempt to raise enough money to get by and to reach their dreams. But Lennie, one of the two men, made a huge mistake. He killed the boss’s son’s wife. Now George, the other man, has to make a choice. He chooses to kill his friend Lennie. But in this dilemma George made the right choice.

We as people often interpret ourselves as powerful but yet powerless. In the book Of mice and men and the poem “To a mouse” both demonstrate how not only people are powerless and powerful but how emotions can be too. Both, the book and the poem show these ways through feelings, actions, and their thoughts.

An unknown source once said “People with good intention make promises, people with good character keep them” (https://becauseisaidiwould.com/promisequotes/). Of Mice and Men, is an amazing story, that revolves around the journey of two characters, who are not similar in any way, who go on a wild trek chasing their American Dream. This eye catching story revolves around the two best friends, George and Lenny. George can be classified as someone who knows his way around, he knows how to get around the in’s and out’s of all situations, and is ultimately the only reason Lenny might still be alive and safe. Lenny on the other hand can be described as a giant baby. The ginormous man, topping the charts in both size and strength, could pretty easily

George is Lennie’s best friend and his only friend. He looks out for Lennie and takes care of him. George is a much smaller guy than Lennie but is like Lennie’s older brother. He does all the thinking for Lennie; he feeds Lennie, and does what’s best for Lennie. Unlike Lennie, George is all there in the head that is why George watches over Lennie and protects him. George does what’s best for Lennie.

Throughout the history of the world, people with mental disabilities have been wrongly punished for their behavior. Unfortunately, this continues even today. Lennie Small in John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men along with Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote from The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha are both examples of this unjust treatment. Don Quixote sees himself as a gallant knight in a world where knight-errantry has become extinct. On the other hand, Lennie is a child in an adult’s world. Due to not seeing the world as it is “supposed” to be, both are punished by the people for their misguided actions.

The general quality of John Steinbeck’s novels are to show the true side of human nature, whether that be how we treat others or our basic survival instincts. His books are still popular today because they express the realistic side of the human spirit, we are animals who want to belong and thrive among others. He was able to capture what actually happened in American life during the Great Depression and show that even the most powerful nations have struggling internal problems. In Steinbeck’s books he created sensible characters that lived in harsh worlds where they were exposed to discrimination, oppression, loneliness, and the fact that no matter how much they made an effort they wouldn’t amount to anything in the end. His novels were also seen as an influential standard for social and political issues across the United States.

Of Mice and Men, novella written by a Pulitzer Prize winning American author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937. Tells you about the life of two migrant workers who go job to job searching for better job opportunities during the Great Depression in California. Two main character when the novella starts in George Milton and Lennie Small, George Milton was an intelligent, smart, confident man while on the other hand Lennie Smalls was a man of great form with metal abilities. Takes place thru various locations and Ranches they worked at and is an interesting story of two migrant workers and their journey to find success in life than being working for someone else.

Of Mice and Men is a classic American novel. It’s about two men named George and Lennie. Lennie is mentally slow, so George takes care of him. They’ve always dreamed of settling down on a farm of their own. On one ranch, Lennie accidentally kills a girl. George takes Lennie’s action to heart and takes it upon himself to fix it, so he shoots Lennie. There’s plenty of evidence to support why this was the right decision. Lennie was dangerous to both himself and others, it was better than what the others who were hunting him had planned, and, finally, George had better chance without him.