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Add keywords here to make this summary more specific to a topic.Strict Scan [?] Of Mice and Men recounts the story of two itinerant ranch hands who, despite their apparent differences, are dependent on each other. Lennie Small, by far the better worker of the two, suffers not only from limited intelligence but also from an overwhelming desire to caress soft objects. These traits, combined with his uncontrollable strength, set the stage for disaster. The fact that a disaster has not already occurred

Of Mice and Men teaches a grim lesson on the difficulties of migrant workers in the era of the Great Depression. Loneliness. Isolation. Hopelessness. Three of the strongest factors Steinbeck explores about the nature of human existence, and the impossibility of the American dream. Steinbeck illustrates the loneliness of migrant workers in the early 1930's and shows how people are eager to try and find friendship in order to escape from their loneliness, and focus on something other than their unrealistic

Around the time of Great Depression people chased the American Dream in an attempt to escape from their reality. In the book of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck introduces a story of two men struggling to achieve their dream of owning land. The book touches lots of issues that existed around the time it was written. The story has many that characters faced prejudices such as being colored, mentally ill, old or a woman. In the story there are characters with broken dreams due to their position in society

The novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck takes place on a ranch a few miles outside of Soledad, in a valley called Salinas during the Great Depression in California. The novel is about two itinerant ranch hands, George and Lennie, who stick together and dream of one day owning their own farm. Unfortunately, this dream, along with Lennie, dies when George makes the difficult decision of killing his friend Lennie after he accidentally snaps a woman’s neck towards the end of the novel. George’s action

Title “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty”. Mother Teresa was a very well known saint and an extremely powerful speaker who changed the lives of millions. Loneliness is like a disease that crawls its way into a heart and eats it away until there is nothing left to take. John Steinbeck’s book Of Mice and Men does an excellent job of highlighting the damages of loneliness and prejudice. Beginning with the characters, George and Lennie on their way to the ranch

John Steinbeck's book of mice and men has lots of event and themes but the most important one is loneliness.Everyone gets lonely but sometimes being lonely makes you a better person, everyone needs someone to be there for them, and no matter who you are you will get lonely.Crooks, Candy and Curley's wife are the 3 loneliest people in the novel. Crooks is isolated candy has no one but his dog and they put him down and Curley's wife who just sits at the house all day while the men work. Crooks is

Lennie in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men: The Accidental Wrongs In the book Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses the climactic event of Lennie killing Curley’s wife to prove that people can do the wrong thing while trying to do the right thing. Therefore it is easy to see people’s accidental wrong doings when George explains to Lennie what he did wrong “That mouse ain't fresh, Lennie; and besides, you've broke it pettin' it.” (Steinbeck 9). Lennie was not trying to kill the mouse, he just wanted to

Have you ever had a goal that you dreamt about it. That was the case for George and Lennie in John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice And Men. All that George and Lennie wanted was a farm, they saved up close to 400 dollars with candys help. Everything was going as planned when Lennie did something that would change their lives forever. Lennie was a man with a child's brain. Lennie had the strength as a bull, Lennie can put up a four hundred pound bale. Lennie wasn't very smart he was told repeatedly that

In Of Mice and Men how does Steinbeck explore the importance of companionship through his use of characterization and narrative voice? Of Mice and Men is a novella written by John Steinbeck and was published in 1937. Steinbeck sets his story in and around California, during the time period of the Great Depression. The novel is centred around two itinerant farm workers George and Lennie who move from farm to farm, seeking work. Steinnbeck explores the importance of companionship in his novella through

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men novel he constantly uses biblical allusions to express the theme of losing paradise. His novel contains characters that allude to certain biblical stories, particular those in Genesis. Curley’s wife is alluded to the apple of temptation from the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis. Also in the book of Genesis, George and Lennie are allusions to the sons of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel. In using the biblical allusions of the apple of temptation and the brothers, Cain