Naturalism In Of Mice And Men

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In the book “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, the author uses his words to show sympathetic and a dispassionate attitude about life through the ways of realism and naturalism. Few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan Mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees—.Rabbits come out of the bush to sit on the sand in the evening, and the damp flats are covered with the night tracks of ‘coons, and with the spread pads of dogs from the ranches, …show more content…

On a sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among them. They had walked in single file down the path, and even in the open one stayed behind the other. Both were dressed in denim trousers and in denim coats with brass buttons. Both wore black, shapeless hats and both carried tight blankets rolls slung over their shoulders. The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features. Every part of him was defines: small, strong hands, slender arms, and a thin and bony nose. Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, and wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the ways a bear drags his paws. His arms did not swing at his sides, but hung …show more content…

I think that they hint that something tragic will end up happening. The author shows that Lennie is rough around people and he doesn’t know his own strength. Which led to him killing a mouse and then a dog and then Curly’s wife. Death is something that will eventually happen to all of us but sometimes it happens unnaturally or quicker than expected. Crook has his bunk in the harness room; a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn. On one side of the little room there was a square four-paned window, and on the other, a narrow plank door leading into the barn. Crooks’ bunk was a long box filled with straw, on which hung broken harness in process of being mended; strips of new leather; and under the window itself a little bench for leather-working tools, curved knives and needles and balls of linen thread, and a small hand riveter. Soledad—means solitude in Spanish. Solitude is the state or situation of being alone (loneliness). Weed—is a wild plant growing where it is not wanted an in competition with cultivated plants Lennie took a mouse out of his pocket. Denied he had it and George looked at it, it was dead. Lennie denied that he killed he said he found it dead. George took the mouse and threw it across the pool to the other side, among the brush. What you want of a dead mouse,

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