George Dawson's Childhood

George has changed over the course of this book. He started to display new qualities by the end of the book. He has changed in three ways: relationship with Lennie, how he sees himself and how he sees the world. The factors that make him change progressively through the story are Lennie, the workers of the ranch and the outside world.

George expected money. If he hadn’t had enough, he would ask for more until he was satisfied. Everything turned and went downhill because of his money crave. George came along and bad things happened.

George Jenkins and his mother left his abusive alcoholic father when he was little and for the longest time his mother did not tell his father, George Jenkins Sr., where they had gone. Eventually his father found out where they had went and he visited his son as often as he could. He worked the local general store and he didn’t make much cash so as George grew up and the economy started to decline he wasn’t able to visit as often but he prided himself in making it to all of the big events and for having the money that George needed even if that meant that he needed to take up a second job. When George was younger he didn’t understand that his father didn’t know where he was, all he knew was that his father wasn’t around so he built up a wall but after understanding everything that his father went through he and his father have begun building a relationship together.

Throughout the novel, George showed qualities of leadership, interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, sense of fraternity, sense of respect for others, and sense of human dignity. These character traits of empathy to keep himself and Lennie alive. Lennie had a mental disability that everyone overlooked, he was very tall and broad, and did not realize his actions or strength. George felt guilt over Curley’s wife death and was unsure if the law would find

George has a great want to have the ideal American Dream. There are several examples of him having this desire one cases is ‘“Someday-gonna get the jack together and gonna have a little house and couple of arcres an’a cow and some pigs’”(Steinbeck 14). George is talking about him buying a house with a few acres of land and also acquiring cows and being able to live off the land. George wants to be able to quit work and make his own crops and harvest his own. Wanting to be able to go into town and not have to worry about how much anything costs or having to go to work the next day on someones elses ranch. Not having to do other people's work but his own work

     Friendship played a big part in the story. All the incidents that happened between friends throughout the book led to the tragic end . One thing can make you believe you can accomplish anything in the world. George believed in himself to accomplish his goal of having a farm , but at the end

George was born in a town in Baltimore named Maryland. When George was born it was like entering a world without anything, then again he did live just before the Twentieth Century, another word there was nothing being invented yet except the movies. Which he was born in the 1800's so the only thing that was available was the movies but they hadn't invent the theater yet. They also had no radio's during that time either, think about how hard it was to get information, then again it wouldn't have been so hard because they had newspapers to get their information on. Kids back then spent their time playing outside rather them be stuck inside. Like if you think about it back then kids didn't have to be force to go outside they didn't have the things we have now days, see mothers had to spank their kids to get them inside. When George was born he was into a family of ten but when all his siblings became infants and they all ended up dying except for George and his sister.

In George Jones' childhood, he was a good kid. He was born in Saratoga, TX on September 12, 1931. His father was a very bade alcoholic. Over the years, his father started to get abusive.

George Dawson never has a hard time accepting his role in the society he lives in he never has lived life any other way, so when his son Junior returns from the Korean War and tells his father about how he had to switch railcars when the troops were returning to the southern states. Junior rightfully felt that it was unfair that he was allowed to fight with white troops but when they were returning home they still could not be in the same railcar (Glaubman 218). After hearing this George responded “That’s life and you just need to get settled back into things…” (Glaubman 218), he cannot even begin to understand the misguided nature of the situation. At this time instead of trying to change his fate George has come to terms with the fact that he will never be able to be equal with white men, which he does not know is absurdly untrue. Later on in the book he begins to fight back by refusing to eat the lunch which is employer placed by the dog’s food he knows that he, as a human, has more value than that (Glaubman 214). This displays his evolution as a person. Similarly, Lee also has come to terms with his place in the community by changing the way he presents himself to people he knows what people expect from him and he just follows that. In the beginning of the novel he covers his personality with the stereotypical exterior that people expect of him. By doing so he sacrificed a bit of himself to please others. He just does what people want from him, no more or no less, he knows “[when he looks] at a man’s eyes, [he] can see that he expects pidgin and a shuffle, so [he] speaks pidgin and [shuffles]...” (Steinbeck 164). As the novel progresses Lee begins to open up to more people rather than just Samuel Hamilton. He allows Adam, Cal, Aron, and Abra to see him for who he truly is. He learns to be

I believe that George is trying his best to suppress his Mexican Greaser attitude, however since he is still being haunted by “silly imaginings of his youth” via means of a recurring dream he will never be able to completely let go of that part of himself. In the eyes of his family and most of Jonesville George became a traitor of his Mexican heritage yet to the Anglo community he is probably viewed as a prosperous loyal American. It is my opinion that George did, to an extent, betray his Mexican heritage by yielding to Anglo laws as well as by constantly pushing aside his family and

Chunk B: Along with realizing the unimportance of man, George understands the lack of control he has over his life. When the “sun [departs]” before nightfall, it is a reminder that even the sun cannot escape the hold of death, since the sun temporarily dies during the dark. Both a mood and a feeling “take[ ] possession” of George after his day of reflection, which implies that he did not willingly choose to become possessed, but rather something else decided to take possession of him. Not only does George see himself as having little control, he sees the people in the streets as “cattle confined in a pen.” In his eyes, every person has been reduced in value to an animal. An outside force controls each person, like the animals. That force

George continued working in the fields until he was fifteen, when he got a new job. He worked that job for only a couple of years before he joined the military at seventeen. He served in Vietnam for several years before coming back to the states. Since then, he has worked for trucking companies, both as a trucker and as a recruiter/trainer. All of his life he has worked hard, remembering the lessons he learned in the cotton

George was tired of traveling; he wanted to settle down somewhere quiet. ““O.K. Someday—we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and—”” (Steinbeck 14). George wanted to live peacefully with Lennie, and he wanted to support himself. He might have been ashamed of the fact that he always had to travel and work on other peoples’ farms to make a living for himself. “George stood up.

     The friendship between Lennie and George went beyond what was unambiguous, they shared a common dream, and they never stopped trying to acheive their dream. They dream of a peice of land of their own. Independence. A couple of acres, a cow, some pigs, and rabbits that Lennie dreams of tending to. Their dream will later be shattered by fate.

In conclusion, The American Dream left George lonely like he has never been with Lennie. Together, the two could have had anything, determination got in the way of that. Like mice, human kind has a tendency to chase after what is right in front of them, because it’s simply easier. Once the dream dust has settled, and we can see the truth, I think readers now know whether they want to continue working hard towards their dream, or start living in