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Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Of Mice and Men Once there were two men who went from ranch to ranch looking for a means to an end, so they can raise money to afford their own ranch. They both have always wanted to get their own ranch, so that they can make their own rules. A lot of characters in the book Of Mice and Men experiance loneliness and that's what i'll be talking about in this essay. Since most of the characters experience aloneness. Crooks experiences loneliness because he is colored and all the other kids that lived near him were white and they didn’t really like colored families. He has a crooked back and he has a hard time working with others. Just like Candy and some other people in the book. “Cause I’m black. They cards in here, I can’t play cause I’m black.” Crooks worked alone because he was black and he had a disability which is his crooked back. He didn’t really have a job, but he somewhat worked for the county which is you basically working alone. That is how George and Lennie want to do things on their farm because they don’t really enjoy following others rules, so they wanted to make their own farm and live alone because they don’t want to deal with others which is what Crooks wanted to do. …show more content…

All they have for friends is each other. They have a very hard time making friends, because Lennie acts like a child and he has a large amount of strength and could hurt someone easily, and after the accident in Weed they have been on the move because people are coming after them. (“I don’t want no fights,” said Lennie. He got up from his bunk and sat down at the table, across from george. Almost automatically George shuffled the cards and laid out his solitaie hand. He used a deliberate, thoughtful, and

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