Robert Frost´s The Tuft of Flowers and Harvest Song by Jean Toome

In a society of people all in the same situations how can someone feel so alone. When lives fall apart and people have nothing to hold on to people need each other most, yet are pushed so far from others. The novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, follows the storyline of two men who are displaced farm workers during the Great Depression; they travel around and stick by each other’s sides no matter the circumstance. After many jobs they end up on a farm,the farm they hope will be their last stop. The time spent on the farm is filled with blooming friendships and careless quarrels, yet with an abundance of characters and entertainment- many people on the farm feel alone and out of place. Characters such as Crooks and Curley’s wife often come to mind when the subject of loneliness is brought up. Throughout the book using characters such as Crooks and Curley's wife, John Steinbeck demonstrates that humans are immensely impacted by separation from society and it will change the way that people will act and show themselves to others.

“Guys like us, that work on ranches are the loneliness guys in the world. They got no family...we got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us” (Steinbeck 14). During the Great Depression, much of society is alienated while survival of the fittest prevails. The power of loneliness affects the individual involved as long as the society it is present in continues to harvest the discriminatory ways. During the 1930’s, the Great Depression was at its peak; The stock markets crashed, and a chain reaction caused the unemployment rates to rise to an all time high. Thus, migrant worker became popular because they were always needed on a farm and it was a way for one to find employment. In of Mice and Men, Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife are all victims of the Great Depression. Candy and Crooks work on the farm, while Curley’s wife is the flirtatious nuisance whose dreams were crushed. The pervasive emotion throughout this novella is loneliness. Loneliness is felt by Candy, Crooks, and and Curley’s wife, whether it’s being represented symbolically as the characters are fighting social devastation, learning to make it alone, or through their actions.

Although everyone is their own individual, society determines who is considered “normal.” In Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordon struggles to fit in with the people around him because of his mental illness. Elie Wiesel faces the same struggles while trying to survive in a concentration camp in Night. Charlie and Elie have both been challenged by the concept of identity. In Flowers for Algernon and Night, these characters have faced many conflicts including not having their identity accepted by society, having insecurities about their identity, and being mistreated based on their identity.

As Steinbeck expresses the migrants’ journey west, the growth of mankind is possible by the human spirit’s ability to be able to alter to a changing circumstance is made evident. Over the course, the luxated laborers are compelled to adapt to their new position to survive. At first, the families are “timid in the building and tumbling [of] worlds” (194). They are afraid to suddenly surrender a habit (or lifestyle) that they have accompanied so long. However, they slowly become used to “huddl[ing] together”, “talk[ing] together”, and “shar[ing] their lives, their food, and the things that

In the novel “Of Mice and Men”, John Steinbeck demonstrates the incapability and isolation for ranch workers to endure and survive with loneliness and how they handle it.

Everyone becomes lonely due to hard conditions. Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, illustrates the feeling of loneliness on a ranch in the early 1930’s. This book shows how people are driven to try and find friendships in order to escape from loneliness. Steinbeck creates an isolated and blue atmosphere at many times in the book. He uses place names to give the setting a sense of desolation right from the start, and reinforces it with the characters readers meet throughout the book. Curley’s wife and Crooks are clear examples of what loneliness can drive people to do. Steinbeck’s book shows the importance of friendships in overcoming loneliness.

During the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, hundreds of thousands of lives were changed. These changes resulted in financial ruin, loneliness, and loss of hope. Loneliness plagued many, as their farms were taken and they were forced to migrate to find a better life. John Steinbeck traveled around the country and worked as an unskilled laborer, working in the shoes of those he would later write about. Although Steinbeck grew up in a middle-class family in Salinas, California, he came to recognize the toils and hardships of laborers when he was a high school student, as he worked on a sugar beet farm alongside migrant workers. The bleak human condition of loneliness and the importance of community is shown throughout John Steinbeck’s

It is often difficult to evaluate one’s self-worth and purpose in solitude. Subsequently, companionship can provide the means to identifying one’s characteristics and qualities. The novella Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, details two ranch laborers, George and Lennie, as they travel and work together in early twentieth century California. In the novella, these two workers are different from other workers because they travel together. This unique relationship provides George with an important and necessary sense of self-identity in life, but this sense of self-identity is false.

Iman Manzoor Ms. Foster 9 Honors English 11 January 2016 Loneliness is a part of life. It is human nature to have a friend or companion to talk to, to share things with, and to help one get through the good and bad of life. When this person is absent, one tends to feel lonely and isolated. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a good example of this.

In this novel, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck concentrates on the depression of California farm life in the 1930's. A standout amongst the most vital things in the life is to have a friend, without friends

The first topic of this essay is loneliness, and the readers need to figure out how this first topic is a portion of this answer. For starters, loneliness has been a state of mind, when a person starts to feel abandoned by a friend that the farmer recognizes. In this story scenario, it occurs when the

The first struggle migrant workers face is loneliness. Most of the time workers travel alone, as the two men were talking George states, “Guys like us are the loneliest guys in the world” (steinbeck 61). Though Lennie and George have each other, the rest of the

The people in this novella who show loneliness are the workers and Curley’s wife. To start off, this novella takes place in Soledad, California at the time of the Great Depression where the pay was very low. Ranch owners took whoever would work for the lowest pay. This meant the workers were moved around and often didn't know each other very well.

Robert Frost had a fascination towards loneliness and isolation and thus expressed these ideas in his poems through metaphors. The majority of the characters in Frost’s poems are isolated in one way or another. In some poems, such as “Acquainted with the Night” and “Mending Wall,” the speakers are lonely and isolated from their societies. On other occasions, Frost suggests that isolation can be avoided by interaction with other members of society, for example in “The Tuft of Flowers,” where the poem changes from a speaker all alone, to realizing that people are all connected in some way or another. In Robert Frost’s poems “Acquainted with the Night,” “Mending Wall,” and “The Tuft of Flowers,” the themes insinuate the idea of loneliness

Robert Frost said many times throughout his life that all men share a common bond. In his poem “The Tuft of Flowers” he analyzes the potential of such a bond, in first person. Frost turns an everyday common job, into discovering a common bond with another laborer. The author uses a comparison between aloneness with a sense of understanding to demonstrate his theme of unity between two men. In another one of Frost’s poems “Birches” he imagines walking through the woods looking at all the trees, and seeing the top bending towards the ground. When he sees this he imagines they are bending from kids swinging on them, rather then what is really happening to them. It can be analyzed that Frost had a very definitive appreciation for nature, and a very broad imagination.