Randy Wagstaff

Around 20% of the world's children and adolescents have mental disorders or problems. Back then a lot of people were not aware of the mental illness. They thought those people were just straight up crazy. In the story of mice and men,” Lennie has a mental illness, which leads to many problems in the book. Foreshadowing plays an influential role in of mice and men through, lennie's obsession with soft things, lennie's death, and lennie's strength. Firstly, One of lennie's biggest problems

Of Mice and Men, a novel written by John Steinbeck, in the 1930’s, shows how two migrant farmers try to work their way to the top to achieve their one dream. Of Mice and Men shows how land ownership in California was a common dream within men throughout the 1930’s. This book also exemplifies the American Dream thoroughly with two poverty-stricken men trying to become land owners and starting their own farm. Of Mice and Men reveals multiple aspects about the American Dream and land ownership in the

In the book Of Mice and Men, I believe that John Steinbeck succeeded in making Lennie a sympathetic character. I think Lennie is a sympathetic character because he can work hard and is good at it. Lennie is not a bright person which in my opinion keeps Lennie and George together. Also, Lennie does not change much over time besides when in chapter 3 he was becoming more optimistic. Mostly throughout the first few chapters Lennie does not change much though. Lennie is a hard and great worker. He can

The story I read for this month’s book report is called Of Mice and Men. This story was written by John Steinbeck and was published in 1937. It tells the tale of two pioneers/ranch workers named George and Lennie and their experience finding jobs during The Great Depression. It takes place in a rural location in Northern California and the main conflict arises when the two men are given a job at a small ranch where the owner seems to have sadistic and malicious intent. George tells Lennie to keep

While Of Mice and Men may be an incredibly crappy novel, there is one thing that isn´t so bad, being that the reader can somewhat relate to the characters, or at least understand them. In the story, two friends, Lennie and George, decide to work on a ranch for some quick money. However, Lennie, being slow on the draw, accidently kills one of the people on the ranch. George decides to kill his friend before the others do. Lennie, George, and Crooks are the three characters come to mind in terms of

Of Mice And Men The theme of friendship is explored within this novel by showing how having someone there for you is important. For example on page 35 George says “It’s a lot nicer to go around with a guy you know.” This proves that having a friend who’s there for you can make a difference. I believe that even though George doesn’t like Lennie sometimes this theme does apply for them two. After all even if George might not like him sometimes they’re always there for each other. Like George mentioned

Halfway through Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses dialogue to indirectly demonstrate the theme of the sad nature of humans on the ranchers. When Lennie visits the bunkhouse to see his pups, he strikes up a conversation with Crooks and he talks about his history: “There wasn’t another colored family for miles around.” When Crooks was a child, he would play with the white kids. He didn’t feel isolated then. It’s the exact opposite of the current situation - Crooks wasn’t isolated because of his race

In the story My Antonia, symbols are used to show some essential points of the lives of the characters, the majority of these symbols being from nature. In my opinion, The reason for writing this story was to try to reestablish a connection between his current life as a well known New York City lawyer and his long gone past on the vast prairie in Nebraska. I feel that the prairie served as a calming place for Jim. In a way, he seems to miss his life in Nebraska, but he understands that his past life

I will be comparing and contrasting the stories Fox Hunt and Old Ben. In both stories each author shows foreshadowing and flashbacks to help develop the story. Fox Hunt is about a boy who meets this new girl and she turns out to be a fox. In Old Ben it’s about a boy who finds a black bull snake and bonds with it and it becomes a good farm pet. Fox Hunt was written by Lensey Namioka and Old Ben was by Jesse Stuart. The similarities with Fox Hunt and Old Ben are that the stories show foreshadowing

Awoken by the startling nightmare of I.C.E seizing him, he stood up, recalling that it was time to leave. When his feet hit the ground, he sensed the dirt tickle his toes. Proceeding to the bathroom, he went on with his routine. He saw his family assembled in a semicircle to say their last goodbyes as he exited the bathroom. Tears started to form in his eyes, as he embraced his family. He heard the dwindled truck honk, knowing it was his signal to skedaddle. Each step he took grew heavier when he