Theme Of Friendship In Of Mice And Men

Part of Lennie’s character is being uneducated, and slow. Lennie is always forgetting important information. “Lenny looked timidly over to him.” “George?” Yeah, what ya want?” “Where we goin’, George?” “The little man jerked down the brim of his hat and scowled over at Lennie.” “So you forgot that awready, did you?” “I gotta tell you again do I? “Jesus Christ you’re a crazy bastard!” “I forgot,” Lennie said softly.(Page 4 of Mice and Men). As you can see this conversation of quotes proves many different points. First, it shows Lennie forgetting where him and George were

What do you think Steinbeck says about the theme of friendship in Of Mice and Men?

    George took Lennie in after Lennie’s aunt died. George knew his aunt pretty well. Lennie had nowhere to go afterwards, so George let Lennie come along with him. George wasn’t always nice to Lennie in the beginning. George would tease him and trick him. Lennie didn’t know any better than to listen to George, even if it was a taunt. After an incident happened to Lennie, George stopped tormenting him. He felt bad for Lennie and how he treated him. From this moment on, George actually took into consideration of Lennie’s mindset. In the book, Steinbeck writes,

Have you ever had a goal and you would do anything to achieve it? Changing how we are and the things we do for people in life, is not as impossible as it seems. I have seen people do amazing things that have changed their lives forever. It is special to have that feeling that you just met your goal and it was the biggest goal you had out of all of the other goals. That is how goals shape us in life.

Lennie cannot survive without food on his own. “I will just live on my own if you want me to.” Lennie said this because the thinks that George doesn’t like him, and wants to get rid of him. George doesn’t want to get rid of Lennie, Lennie just makes George mad.

This is important because it shows that George wants to be alone but does not truly want to be lonely. Lennie is George’s responsibility. George views Lennie as a brother, friend, and partner in crime. Without Lennie, George is lonely but he knows that he saves Lennie from his own personal misery in the end. George knows he needs Lennie just as much as Lennie needs him. He needs his friendship and is lonely after he takes that friendship away from himself.

He can be very gullible and will listen to anything George tells him to do I was feelin’ pretty smart. I turns to Lennie and says, ‘Jump in’. An’ he jumps. Couldn’t swim a stroke. He damn near drowned before we could get him. (40) Because of his simple mind and George’s role in his life Lennie has learned to follow orders and listen to anything george says. And when he listens and does everything George tells him to he sometimes messes up like the drowning thing. And George has to come and save him or get him out of things. Which greatly contributes to his constant bad feeling and turmoil when it comes to George taking care of him and looking out for

When introduced he was described as “a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders..”(2) Lennie has the mind of a child because of his mental illness. Whenever he talks in the story, his voice sounds innocent to me. At the end of the story Lennie ends up killing Curley’s wife on accident. George had told him to meet him by the Salinas river if he ever gets in any kind of trouble. He started to imagine a voice in his head. It was his Aunt Clara. She explains that he never takes care and that he does bad thing. His response “I tried and tried. I couldn’t help it.”(101) He was saying that he would go live in a cave and he’ll live there so he doesn’t cause anymore trouble. His conscious is saying “you’re always sayin’ that, an’ you know sonafabitching well you ain't never gonna do it.(101) In this chapter it makes me have so much sympathy for him because he’s thinking all these unkind things about himself and he just feels so hated, and lonely.

Lennie is unquestioning in his loyalty to George. We see this in George’s anecdote about the Sacramento River. “‘Jump in.’ An’ he jumps”(P66) Lennie has a childlike obedience. Steinbeck shows us this in the fight between Lennie and Curley. Earlier on, George tells Lennie to not fight with Curley, Lennie remembers this and due to his childlike obedience, his “hands remained at his sides; he was too frightened to defend himself.”(P91). Once George tells Lennie to “Get him”(P91), Lennie immediately crushes Curley’s hand completely. Most mature people would know whether they should break the rules or not, because they wouldn’t get as badly hurt, but with Lennie, it is a different story. It is this childlike obedience that Steinbeck uses to show us how George needs to act as a parent towards Lennie.

From reading chapter one, I can infer that Lennie looks up to George like a parent. He follows George’s lead and asks George questions, even requesting that George sooth him with a story as they go to bed. For instance, after setting the scene, Chapter one begins with George and Lennie walking in single file to a pond, as Lennie mirrors several of George’s actions including “ Pushing himself back, drawing up his knees, and embracing them,”(Steinbeck 4) just as George had done. Mimicking George’s actions is a way of proving he wants to be like George, just as many young children want to be like their parents one day. Additionally, At the end of the chapter George tells Lennie to finish the story about their dream future together. Lennie replies

Chapter one At the beginning of, Lennie and George are walking down a path, and Lennie bends down to drink from a pool of water and George tells him not to because the water is not safe. This advice is helpful to Lennie because he's mentally disabled and might not have know

One day These two were together with a couple of other guys and George gets a little carried away not knowing that Lennie cannot swim. “I turns to Lennie and says, ‘Jump in.’ An’ he jumps in… he was so damn nice to me for pullin’ him out, clean forgot I told him to jump in. Well, I ain’t done nothing like that no more” (40).

In the book Lennie is not all there. Lennie has a severe mental issue that causes him to not be able to think or not do things to get him in trouble. Lennie represents handicapped people who can’t be alonxzr4e. George takes care of lennie and acts like a father figure towards him. Lennie got him and George in trouble while they were working in Weed so they had to make a run. While working in Weed a

Lennie is George’s companion throughout the story, travelling with George wherever he goes. He is mentally impaired, as he has not matured past the mindset

A strong friendship can motivate some to stick with each other through difficult time. During the Great Depression, it is important to have a strong relationship with a friend to get through the perilous times. Throughout the struggles of the Great Depression, a strong friendship can be formed, just like how its examplified in the literature from that era. In Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, he is showing that each characters has a destiny to take upon and be responsible for their fate. The character, George, dawns onto the reader that he is a caring, whom is also is very cautious and protective to those around him.