Struggle Is The Situation In Which Oneself Carries The

George is one of people in the ranch that had big goals to achieve, but he couldn’t accomplish any of them because of Lennie. George taking care of Lennie affects his dreams in a big way because every time George gets closer to his dreams Lennie completely ruins it. In the story it states George saying “ dumb bastard likes to touch everything he likes”(steinbeck 41). This is very important because this shows how childish lennie acts. The most important thing to him was to have dreams to have a farm and his own place with Lennie. This quote “ we got a future “ (Pg . 14) shows that he had a dream worth living for. Another way George had gotten his dreams taken away was when Lennie killed their boss’s wife. I know that George was a very lonely person because in the story he talks about guys like him in the ranch . “ guys like us , that work on a ranch are the loneliest guys in the world” (Pg . 13). This is very important because it shows his feelings towards being lonely.

Individuals have had to do something they do not want to do at least once in their lives. It could be something small, or something to a bigger extent. In the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, many characters struggle with loneliness because the novel is set during the Great Depression when many people found it difficult to make a living. This is one of the reasons why many readers find it odd that Lennie Small and George Milton travel together in these desperate times. George and Lennie look out for each other at every place they go. At the Tyler Ranch, Lennie’s disability causes him to get into trouble, big trouble. George has to make the toughest decision of his life: kill his friend or let him die a painful death. George decided to kill Lennie because he would not be able to allow Lennie to experience misery. George Milton did not kill Lennie Small out of hate, but out of friendship.

Throughout the novel, Steinbeck portrays the prevalent theme of loneliness through the Great Depression, along with the pervasive toll that it takes, through the depth of his characterization. A good example of this was the scene where George and Lennie talk to the ranch boss about getting a job. It was so unusual to find two people sticking together that the boss initially thought George was taking Lennie’s wages. The boss would only believe that they were together when George was said to him that he and Lennie were cousins. The

One internal conflict that George is dealing with is that he has to keep on looking out for Lennie, even though he knows he would be better off without Lennie. For example, George says, God almighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an’ work, an’ no trouble,” (Steinbeck, page 11). George faces the internal conflict of deciding if it is really worth George to look after Lennie. All Lennie does for George is cause him trouble. George could start a brand new life, way more successful than now, without Lennie. But he decides to stay with Lennie because to Lennie George means everything to him. If Lennie didn't have George, who knows where he would be. This shows George as a complex character because the audience sees the real two sides of George. Outside George may seem as a tough independent person. But really on the inside George is a very caring person that is a father figure for Lennie. The audience sees George’s

Struggles are things that hold us down and must be conquered. Braverman and Hope from the novel Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer and my friend Sophia all have something in common. They all had struggles and overcame them in their own, remarkable ways.

In this work of literature, George Milton 's faced with a situation of what is right and wrong and which inner sense to listen to. George 's long time friend and mentally handicapped friend Lennie Smalls has just killed Curley 's wife, inside of a barnyard accidentally. Lennie attempts to run away from the whole situation, but George knows exactly where he will be, and that is at the exact spot he told him to go to if there was trouble. As George arrives at the river Lennie was instructed to go to, George realizes he has a great problem, should he kill his long time best friend and save him from the swarming angry mob of ranchers, or turn him in and let them have there way. As George 's inner senses battle, he realizes what he must do and that is to put Lennie out of his misery and self entrapment and set him free once and for all. George makes Lennies death quick and painless as any good friend would, but he can not seem to shake the sense of guilt and anguish he is experiencing. As George lovingly kills Lennie he portrays his bravery and sense of what is right and wrong all by listening to what his inner senses and consciousness led him towards. John Steinbecks use of literary terms enhances the sense of bravery and drama that this scene of a friend killing another brings. The mood that John Steinbeck sets for George 's attitude towards Lennie is

“No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.” - unknown Struggle is something that everyone on the face of this planet must face at one point or another. Even though struggles are challenging and sometimes bad things that happen to us, we should choose to embrace them. Everytime we make it through something bad, we come out wiser and stronger than ever before.

Steinbeck portrays George as a man who tries to help, and helps others so that the wrenching reality of human existence will not tear his life away in a dark path of loneliness. George and Lennie go talk to the boss to get jobs, and the boss asks, “‘What’s your name?’” (Steinbeck 21) and

Having lived at difficult times, John Steinbeck meets human nature and its flaws, which he successfully encompasses in his novel, Of Mice and Men. Throughout his career, Steinbeck has managed to craftily expose the entrails of humankind in an effort to reflect on its rather capricious psyche. In his novel, for instance, he portrays two wandering men—mentally impaired Lennie, and George—who seem to often get in trouble due to Lennie’s naivety. As the characters develop, it becomes clear that they establish the strongest of bonds, yet George numerous times proves humankind’s capricious psyche by demonstrating hate toward the unavoidable circumstances which mental disorders such as Lennie’s carry. In the final chapter, George hesitantly resorts to executing Lennie, thus conveying a universal message: one is not entirely depraved nor solely good, but a combination of both and therefore no act of killing is morally justifiable. Furthermore, George is not morally justified for having killed Lennie, since his feelings often shift between love, disgust, and selfishness. This may be seen when Lennie and he talk about the incident in weed, when Lennie and Curley have an incident, and when Lennie unintentionally breaks Curley’s wife’s neck.

In the beginning of the book, it starts off by introducing the main characters George and Lennie. The story uses characterization of George and Lennie and how their main goal is to achieve living the American Dream. George and Lennie learn to take care of each other which is an important role that is played on George's part because Lennie is disabled. “'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us”' (Steinbeck 15). Here Steinbeck informs male friendships, implying that George and Lennie are the most respected and fulfilling people especially in a way to defeat the loneliness which strongly affects the world. The quote suggests human beings are unsurpassed when they have another person to look to for direction and reassurance. George advises that they are highly fortunate to have each other since most men do not fancy this contentment, especially people like George and Lennie who survive on the border of civilization. Along with that, George and Lennie seem to have known each other their entire lives so they learn to become comfortable and intimate with always being around each other and adapting to their lifestyles. As normal George has to look out for his nuisance of a friend to prevent bad situations that lead to consequences that seem to have happened in the past. Their friendship is made to seem

To begin, John Steinbeck uses George to show the failure of the American dream. George is a small guy and somewhat rude. He truly cares about his companion Lennie, but he doesn’t like to show it. He’s very serious and determined. In the book George and Lennie had to run away from a very difficult situation that Lennie caused.

One way George and Lennies relationship helped me to understand is when George and Lennie try to achieve the American Dream by working together. This is in contrast to many of the other characters who are feeling lonely by themselves which seems to be the standard at the time of the Great Depression. The reader is able to look at how the need to have a companion is portrayed by Steinbeck, especially during the harsh economic times that the story is set in. Lennie is saying “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you” is underlying the true reliance that both George and Lennie have for one other. The reliance that George and Lennie have on one another side emphasizes on how on how it is only the friendship between the two of them which allows

In John Stienbeck's novel of Mice and Men, he tells a tragic story of a dream gone horrible wrong. The story focuses on the friendship of two men George Milton and Lennie Small. Lennie is a mentally handicapped man whom George takes care of. They travel from farm to farm, working to make money to buy a place of their own and there last faithful stop they meet a variety of interesting yet lonely characters. Steinbeck includes several different themes throughout his novel, however loneliness, is the most prevalent theme and is portrayed through the characters.

struggle as a catalyst for unity, in various degrees because in the face of adversary, we are

“We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us” (Steinbeck 14). Two friends, George and Lennie, are migrant workers who travel together and hope to be able to fulfill their dream of owning their own property together. Lennie is always getting in trouble even though he means no harm because he has an intellectual disability and sensory issue. After Lennie killed someone since he wasn’t aware of his own strength, George made the difficult decision to shoot and kill Lennie to prevent the punishment that Lennie would receive not only for this one problem, but also to prevent all of the trouble he would have continued to get in for the rest of his life. In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, George influences others through his dream such as Lennie, Candy, and himself.