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“Wha’s the matter with me?’ she cried. ‘Ain’t I got a right to talk to nobody? Whatta they think I am, anyways?” (Steinbeck 87) In the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Curley’s wife is discriminated against because she is a woman living in the 1930s when few females could live economically independent of men. By choosing not to name her, Steinbeck reinforces her insignificance on the ranch and her dependence on Curley. While a misfortunate victim of isolation, Curley’s wife exerts unexpected power attempting to mask her pain.

Imagine if you had almost no money, only had 1 true friend, and one goal that you will do anything to achieve. That's the life of George and Lennie, two farm hands who are about to start working on a ranch in Salinas, California. It seemed like everything was going well for the two of them, or at least they thought it was. Steinbeck argues, throughout Of Mice and Men, that we as humans need to be able to comprehend the fact that the American dream is impossible, so when we fail at that, we won't fall as hard as we might if we had full faith in it, and he develops this stance using diction choices, imagery, and characterization.

Have you ever dreamed of becoming someone important or doing something exciting and memorable? Would you give up or refuse to let go of your dream until you achieve it? Has that obsessive under-minded your success? Many people have dreams that they want to accomplish, but there are obstacles individuals have to cross over in order to achieve their goals, such as facing reality. In the book of Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, the story is a tale of two drifters working from farm to farm, trying to make a living, and save some money to have their own place someday, which is their dream during the Great Depression. The characters face the hardships

I. John Steinbeck used his personal experiences as a laborer to write many of his novels like Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.

	 John Steinbeck was a famous American author who wrote from the 1920 to the 1940. Steinbeck was constantly moving across the country trying to succeed as a writer. John Steinbeck lived a life of constant up and downs, successes and failures before he landed on his feet and became a famous author.

“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.” John Steinbeck said this of all humankind. He thought highly of us as a species, just as Dr. Stockmann did in Henrik Ibsen’s play Enemy of the People. Both men had problems in their societies, Stockmann in his town and Steinbeck in America, and both believed that humans were capable of seeing the problem and fixing it. The rest of the population did not see this as the case. They believed he was an enemy of the people and a threat to their way of life. Because of how Steinbeck expressed his views, people felt threatened by what he wrote and they called him a threat to

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is an interesting book that has many different interpretations of its theme. However, I think that the theme is that not everything goes as planned and that John Steinbeck used Lennie to help show this theme. I think that that is the theme because plans did not work multiple times, including George and Lennie’s plan to keep working in Weed, the plan to get the farm, the plan to stay away from Curley’s wife, the plan to keep Lennie out of trouble, and the plan to stay away from Curley, and Lennie is involved in all of these.

Another way, Steinbeck shows How Gorge is a true friend to lennie is through how reliable he is to Lennie. An example of this is Lennie was left alone with Curley's wife in the barn and accidently killed her, by him doing this it made all the workers want to kill him. But instead of them killing Lennie George went off and “pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again, Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand and lay without Quivering,” (106) This quote shows how Gorge is a true reliable friend because A true friend will do whatever they think is good for you. Just like how George went off and killed lennie, so that way he didn’t have to go through even more hell. This shows readers that

Dreams are very important in people’s lives affecting them greatly. The migrant ranch dream motivates George and Lennie to obtain a place where they would belong therefore obtaining independence. The two would often talk about the fact that they’d “have [their] own place”, which shows their extreme desire for their dream ranch (Steinbeck 57). The idea of obtaining it is always on their minds and causes them to work harder to obtain it. They also value it as a chance to be independent. Lennie and George think of it as a place where they will be able to act against people they don’t like by saying “get the hell out” (Steinbeck 58). The people would have to do what they say because George and Lennie wouldn’t be working for them. They would be able to voice their own opinions and not have to suffer the consequences of doing so. They could also choose when they want to work and how long. They would be able to say “ the hell with goin’ to work, and …build up a fire in the stove and set around it an’ listen to the rain comin’ down on the roof “when the weather is really bad(Steinbeck 14-15). They would not have to deal with the harsh conditions and can relax.

Many writers throughout history have endured both positive and negative criticism of their works. Just as John Steinbeck introduced to us “Of Mice and Men” in 1937, he faced both biographical and historical Criticism. Mr. Steinbeck was on point with his writing in the ways that he made clear to the reader just what he was talking about. He made it possible for the reader to sink deeply into the story and feel as though they are walking right alongside the characters. His description of setting and appropriate relation to the period in time and those living it aided in the way his writing was perceived. Steinbeck is especially talented with this element of writing in that he lived and

John Steinbeck, born in February 27, 1902, worked as a manual labor worker before achieving his success as a well renowned American writer. A compassionate understanding of the world 's disinherited was to be Steinbeck 's hallmark. The novel In Dubious Battle (1936) defends striking migrant agricultural workers in the California fields. In the novel Of Mice and Men(1937; later made into a play), Steinbeck again utilizes the hardships of migrant workers, but this time in terms of human worth and integrity. With the country struggling to recover the collapse of the economy and a second world war, the people of the United States needed to know that they were

In January of 1936, John Steinbeck began writing Of Mice and Men in the middle of the largest economic downturn the United States has ever seen and later referred to as, The Great Depression. “Throughout the country the fall off in international trade had closed thousands of small business enterprises, forced small and large farmers off their properties and brought hundreds of little rural communities to the edge of poverty and beyond”. (O 'Connor, 2014) Attempting to bring the world into a fictional panorama, Steinbeck achieved this goal by following the accounts that have unfortunately taken place in the world with a shocking, yet slightly satisfying twist. Although this story is only fiction, it certainly contains the presentiment and agony that most U.S citizens were facing during this incredibly restless era. Nonetheless, the book itself is still fictional. The historical accounts in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and the verisimilitude in the real world are extremely accurate.

An Analysis: Of Mice And Men John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a classic novella. It is about migrant workers who have a hard and cruel life. The ability to dream relies on other people, for them to be achieved. That statement is a major theme in Steinbeck’s book Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck uses characters and symbols to incorporate that theme in his book. Through characters and symbols in the book, Steinbeck shows how difficult it is to attain dreams.

In the novella of mice and men, the author John Steinbeck conveys the initial key ideas of the text through the first chapter thoroughly. This clearly can be seen through a careful analysis of the text, specifically in the first chapter. Of mice and men is a story in which has been recollected from the perception of a third person omniscient and objective narrator. The author through the novel has entitled the narrator with the job of presenting the life of two men during the great American depression from which the novel is set. Both men work on a ranch, who despite their differences are dependent on one another.

There are such a large number of books in the world that we have soon to discover. Books that convey huge numbers words that makes a remarkable story that can be significant whether we notice it or not. This specific story, The Pearl, ventures readers through this twisted story in a little town in Paz, on the shoreline of the Baja. Kino and, his better half, Juana live on the poor side of this town with their child named Coyotito. They soon found, as they think, the pearl of the world. They trust their lives could become better, however must to their dismay the pearl would convey obliteration and intense changes to their lives forever. The author, John Steinbeck, believes that greed is a corruption of evil that can only bring