Overview The wife of Curley, the son of a ranch owner in Soledad, California, was the victim of involuntary manslaughter at the hands of Lennie Small, a mentally disabled bindlestiff travelling with a companion and carer by the name of George Milton. It is believed that the pair were on the run from the owners of a previous ranch in the town of Weed - A town a few miles down the road from Soledad - where Small had assaulted a female resident of the ranch, whose position and name is currently unknown. Small, described by Milton in an unofficial statement, was a child trapped in an adult’s body, and unaware of his own strength. Shortly after being hired on the ranch in Soledad, Small is involved in a fight initiated by Curley, the son of the
My chosen artwork is titled: “Coronado’s Expedition Crossing the Llano Estacado,” a 35 ½” by 57 ½” painting by Tom Lovell. This Oil paint on canvas was taken from the Petroleum Museum in the Permian Basin, Midland, Texas. This painting is remarkable in that the artist makes use of several element and principles of art in this artwork to contextualize the painting. The artist uses diagonal line, vertical lines, and implied lines to draw our attention to Don Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and his men and also to create a sense of movement and energy. The fold and fabric as well as the contour lines exhibit in the images of the horse clearly create a sense of movement to viewers.
Books have certain details that are edited out or reshaped in the movie versions. Variations between the book and the movie may seem easy for the readers to find these elements. There are three main differences between the book and the movie Of Mice and Men which include setting locations, characters, and ending scenes. There are many differences to the book but one of the main ones is the setting. There are so many differences to the setting for example in the movie they are out in the fields half of the time and in the book they are in the bunkhouse.
This shows that it was more about hurrying than comfort. George made Lennie think about taking care of the rabbits. He made up for the lack of comfort in Lennie’s final moments. Both the book and movie have the actors on the bank of the Salinas, which is in a still green section of the river. In both versions, George told Lennie to tell the story of the rabbits and the house that they were going to live on.
I think that throughout chapter five, both Lennie and Curley's wife feel regret through their actions, or their emotions. I think that Lennie feel regret on chapter five because of the fact that he just killed his pup, only friend, who he will no be able to pet the rabbit anymore if George saw what he did to the pup by accidentally. This quote“Why do you got to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice. I didn’t bounce you hard” (85) showed that since Lennie kills the pup that Slim gave him while he was playing too roughly with the puppy.
While reading John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, I noticed numerous similarities to Of Mice and Men. The first one being the strong emphasis on the importance of family. In Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie were basically family, seeing as how George never failed to protect Lennie, even when Lennie got into trouble. For instance, when Lennie caused a commotion in Weed, George stuck by him, helping him escape. In The Pearl, Kino struggles to provide for Juana and Coyotito.
“Of Mice and Men” Performance Task I think that it is a good thing that George Killed Lennie because Lennie had been killing people and animals. But I think that John Steinbeck wrote the book “Of Mice and Men” because he wanted to show us/the reader how bad it was then and compare it to how bad we thought/think it is now. If we the reader(s) compare then to now we would see how bad it used to be and we think that our lives are bad but really there not that bad.
Lennie then runs away looking for safety. When the boys get back, Candy see's Curley's wife lying dead. Curley is quick to blame it on someone, and that someone is Lennie. George is obligated to shoot and kill Lennie; he remembers the spot where he previously told lennie to go in case of an emergency and goes out to search for him. George finds lennie and is left with the hard decision of killing his best friend.
Based off what the reader knows about Crooks from chapter four, the reader can infer that he would be the kind of person to join the NAACP. The reason for this is because he believes that African Americans do not receive the same things that whites do. In the text it states, “‘ This is just a nigger talkin’, an’ a busted-black nigger, So it don’t mean nothing, see? [...]
Of Mice and Men is a book worth reading and teaching. This is the claim that Thomas Scarseth uses as he analyzes the book. He analyzes the book of two men, in the depths of the Great Depression, striving for companionship and the American Dream. He argues that the book portrays reality, has good structure, and makes the reader learn about morals and themes.
No matter how good we act or how humane we are, due to our lack of personality and abilities, we can never achieve what we deserve. As individuals, many people do good deeds towards others every day, but nobody earns what they deserve. Everyone is a good person at heart and deserves a better life than what they have now, but due to our limitations we can’t always achieve them, similarly to Lennie and George’s situation as they struggled in the limited world in gaining money for a piece of land as “all men dream of”, “We gotta get a big stake together. I know a little place we can get cheap, but they ain’t givin’ it away” (56). In addition, no matter how good someone is or how hard they work, they will never achieve their dreams because dreams
In the Novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck the title of the book comes from a poem by the 18th century Scottish poet named Robert Burns, He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. His poem is about a mouse which carefully builds a winter nest in a wheat field, only for it to be destroyed by a tractor. The point is that no matter how carefully a project is planned, something may still go wrong with it. This relates to the to the book because Lennie and George are two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States, They have the idea of having their own ranch and farm . He dreams
A work of literature that has unsettled me is Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. This caused me to stir with strong unsettling emotion because of the way that the novel ended. Near the end of the story, a mentally deficient man, Lennie accidently murders a young woman. He was simply trying to quiet her. She was so scared from his attentions that she had started screaming.
When George and Lenny temporarily ceased "nomading", they were reluctant to leave the “life stability” of living in one home instead of moving constantly. “We’d jus’ live there… There wouldn’t be no more runnin’ round the country…” (Steinbeck 28). Although Lenny’s dream consisted of simply caring for rabbits, George’s hopes impacted their lives to a large degree.
In the short story, "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar A. Poe entail various symbols that consist of: east and west, the ebony clock, the masked figure and Prince Prospero's castellated abbey. The overall allegorical message Poe establishes is that eventually everyone dies, even though they try to prevent death. East and West and Prince Prospero's castellated abbey signify in complexity of how they initiate Poe's usage of symbolism. The seven rooms in Prince Prospero's kingdom depicts the progression of life, by demonstrating it east and west. The text states,"...eastern extremity...in blue...second chamber was purple...third was green..
