Comparison Of John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

For this assignment, I read the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The story has a very fascinating plot which is supported by the unique usage of grammar. The main characters, George Milton and Lennie Smalls, are a pair of friends who traveled together to basically escape from the consequences at their previous job because of a situation that was mishandled caused by Lennie Smalls. They left to work at a different ranch up north, and this is where major mistakes were made. The book was more enjoyable than expected because of the characters, but also the slang that was used was provocative. Lennie is a very interesting character and the tension between all the other characters was found to be intriguing. Throughout this entire story,

He writes all the dialogue with same tone and slang you’d hear in the south. Although the story doesn’t take place in the south, the setting helps understand why they would talk the same way. They’re ranch-workers, it’s stereotypical for them to talk like that. So, the author writes the way it sounds. For example, on page 63, George said, “ Lennie was jus’ scairt,”. It doesn’t apply to proper english, but readers can make sense of it. The way the story is written is through a third-person omniscient, like it’s just the author telling it. He’s not an actual character in the story, and knows everything. If there was no dialogue, the author was telling the story in what felt like either a bland or arousing tone, it’s one or the other. That made me feel like I should continue to read to reveal what happens next. The bland tone made me feel like something out of the blue will happen if I keep reading. The arousing tone was pulling me into definitely seeing what the next event was. For awhile, it would be just the characters in the book having conversation, sometimes bickering and that interested me in knowing what the entire conversation is about. There would be times when Lennie would talk to George, or the time he talked to Curley’s wife, in a sad or desperate tone and that contributes to the message of the book, since he was basically the main

Lennie is practically the source of all problems, but it’s not on purpose, he’s just sick. George and Lennie left in the first place because Lennie has this weird habit touching things that he likes. The incident at the old ranch with the girl’s nice dress was pushed farther than it needed to be because she told it was rape when in reality, Lennie just liked her dress. Kind of similar to what happened in the end with him and Curley’s wife. The only difference is, is that she told him to feel her hair so everything that happened after that was her fault. George says he doesn’t like small guys like Curley who pick on bigger guys like Lennie, that’s how they’re tension is built. But really, there’s a lot of characters who don’t like Curley for the way he is personally. Now we know that nobody really likes him but unfortunately, he’s not the one that dies. They killed the start of a lot of the problems. This is how it all adds up. As for the author’s message, know how to act around certain people because you can see in the story, the wrong actions causes