Steinbeck’s “mouse” can be represented by his character Lennie. Lennie is given animal-like traits. Some examples on page 3 are how Lennie is “like a horse,” and has “big paws.” George also says he’ll “put you [Lennie] in a cage” on page 11. Lennie is often forgetful of his past like how mice only focus on the present.
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.
“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.
In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck portrays opposite personas, as George represents a smart and brave character, and Lennie acts as a follower to George, showing fear and discomfort around others. To begin, usually when you first meet someone, there is a sense of shyness. Displayed in the reading, Lennie shows he is shy when he meets Curley’s Wife, and is nervous on interacting with her. Towards the end of the story, Lennie makes a difficult decision, as he decides to kill Lennie with a gunshot to the back of the head. In George’s defense, he should kill him, as he causes so much trouble to their dream idea.
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.
Of Mice and Men is a novella. Wrote by John Steinbeck and published in 1937. The book draws parallels to Robbert Burns's poem; To a Mouse. I genuinely enjoyed this novella due to the simplistic outer shell that when broken into reveals a deeper truth about life.
Of Mice and Men is a wonderful book explaining how life was like for men who worked in the 1930s. The book goes into deep detail about how the lives of the characters were on the ranch, their personalities, and difficulties that the men faced while trying to accomplish their dreams. Candy was one of the characters working on this farm in the fields as a swamper who is call the “Old Swamper.” He is an old man, who lost his hand while working on the ranch. Therefore, it made it harder for him to find work.
In the novella, Of Mice and Men, the author John Steinbeck illustrates a ranch in the 1930’s during the great depression where those who fit into mainstream society run the show, and those deemed “outcasts” are rendered useless. Steinbeck depicts characters with setbacks that diminish their value in the eyes of society, and contrasts them to characters that have no difficulties conforming to the norm. Crooks, being a black man isolated by his race, and Candy, a elderly man limited by his age and missing limb are examples of Steinbeck characters that experience hardships because of the differences. The poor treatment of Crooks and Candy by the other characters, and their chronic unhappiness in a place that doesn’t value them, comments on how
John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men tells the story of George and Lennie, two hard working farm workers in the south of California who seek to find enough work to someday buy their own land and home. On their path to fulfilling their dreams Lennie and George run into other dreamers who also want to exit their cruel life and do something better with it. However, Of Mice and Men makes the world seem like a cruel place where dreams are unable come true making it harder for these characters to escape their stressful lives and accomplish much more. In the beginning of the story George shares the dreams and wishes him and Lennie both share.
Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck is centered around an unlikely pair of friends George is small and quick, and Lennie a man of prodigious size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a family, clinging together in the face of loneliness and isolation. During this arduous time period George gets caught in many worrisome situations with Lennie. Although George has always found a way to get Lennie out of them situations, George is now stuck between a rock and a hard place. Lennie has always put George in bad situations, but nothing like this Lennie has made a huge mistake he has killed a beautiful young lady.
Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men to serve as a piece of social commentary; his characters serve as individual representations of typical members of Depression-era society. Similar to Mark Twain’s satirical novel on racism, Puddn’head Wilson, Steinbeck utilizes an unusual technique by representing the American minorities and their stance on the country’s epidemic. A black stable hand, Crooks, directs towards Lennie, “A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you.
Of Mice and Men is a classic novel, written in the year 1937 by John Steinbeck that showcases the struggles of Americans in the time of the Great Depression. George and Lennie are the main characters of the novel, George is a small structured and quick witted man who travels with his best friend, Lennie. Although he doesn’t recognize his own strength and size, Lennie is a large man who just wants to be a gentle giant and pet soft animals, but since he doesn’t understand how strong he is he often kills them accidentally. Lennie and George share a dream to own a ranch and live off their own produce and for Lennie to tend the rabbits. This was their own version of the American dream, to achieve their idea of paradise through hard work and manual
The book Of Mice and Men, was held in the time period of The Great Depression. It tours the way society was treated during this time. I have done some research to explain how they were treated and compare it to the book. It starts with “the little man”/the working poor this also means George, according to reference.com, life for poor workers during The Great Depression was an experience of constant hard times. Such difficulties included homelessness, dispossession, serial unemployment, discrimination, violence and even persecution.
My aspiration to become a Mental Health Nurse and to make my career in this discipline has formed out of my own experience of working in the care and education sector, being able help to solve the problems of individuals suffering from a various mental health illnesses. For many years I have worked in schools and institutions for those with mental health conditions, as well as caring for troubled children. This has given me hands on perception of the challenges faced by mental health staff, as well as achieving a great sense of the human satisfaction to be found in caring for such patients by being able to help them to live a more normal life, to achieve some equilibrium in their day-to-day existence and to preserve their self-respect. My ultimate goal is to manage a care home for those who suffer from mental health conditions, but At the same time I am mindful of the variety of roles which could be open to me with a degree in mental health.
