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Also respectable women didn’t wear make up, if you did then the men would think bad of you. Yet also there isn’t another woman on the ranch for or nearby-so she hasn’t got any support, girls and boys like the company of people their age, girls share make up, clothes, talk to each other, and chat about life. Curleys’ wife can’t chat with other girls since there isn’t anybody; Curleys’ mother seems evidently dead or doesn’t live with them, so she can’t talk to her. She cannot go into town to meet other girls because she cannot travel alone, if she does then society will disrespect her.
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She is treated by Curley as a sex object, as a possession- a perfect example of this is when she dies, Curleys’ reaction to her death, there is no weeping, no remorse, Curley goes straight for revenge “I’m gonna get him. I’m going for my shotgun. I’ll kill the big son-of-a-bitch myself. I’ll shoot him in the guts. Come on, you guys” he only goes for revenge for Lennie because he hates big guys. Curley sees his wife as a sex object from when he brags about his ‘glove fulla Vaseline’ Curley says this because when the men ask him why he is wearing a glove full of Vaseline, he says he is keeping it soft for his wife. He only says this to make the other guys jealous.
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As for the other men on the ranch, they see her as someone who is dangerous, she is judged by her first appearance “well ain’t she a looloo?” they say this because she doesn’t fit into the men’s category as normal, respectable women didn’t wear make up- she wears make up- respectable women didn’t leave the house- she’s in their faces. When Whit says “I bet she even gives the stable buck the eye” when he says this, it is a major insult to a woman. For a woman to sleep with a black man is seen as the taboo, it just wasn’t right back then. They refer her to a tart (prostitute); however they talk about the actual tarts at the cathouse with real warmth and pleasure “we go to old susy’s place. Hell of a nice place. Old susy’s a laugh- always cracking jokes.” They talk about tarts as if they like them. But they don’t like Curleys’ wife and call her a tart, when she isn’t one. It seems as if she cannot win.
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When you are a married man, you work and look after your wife. Curley has only been married for two weeks and he’s going to the cathouse! Curleys’ wife hasn’t done anything. This does not pass unnoticed; Curleys’ wife tells Lennie how she feels about it “I get lonely” she said “you can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk to anybody?”
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So what has loneliness done to her? It’s made her desperate; she ignores the voice inside her head that something is wrong. “She took Lennie’s hand and put it on her head”. This shows that she is desperate for company. She also has become cruel “listen nigger” she said “you know what I can do to you if you open your trap” this shows that she feels as if she can get her own back on them, she feels as if- for the first time in a long time I suppose- she can take control. Eventually it kills her. She got that desperate for company that she stayed in that room with Lennie; and got herself killed.
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; this was because the film industry was just starting. This was a dream for most young girls back then. Like of how girls of 16-17 want to become models. Evidently this was a realistic dream for young girls back then. She got this dream from when she was 15; an actor said that she could be in the movies “‘nother time I met a guy an’ he was in pitchers. Went out to the riverside dance palace with him.
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He says he was going to put me in the movies. Says I was a natural. Soon’s he got back to Hollywood he was going to write to me about it” what this man really wanted to was to sleep with her. I don’t think he was in the movies at all, I think he was just claiming, it would be highly unnatural for a Hollywood film producer to turn up in a small place like Soledad, like a famous person turning up in Bloxwitch, it wouldn’t happen on an everyday basis. This is why her mother wouldn’t let her “my ol’ lady wouldn’t let me” her mother wouldn’t let her go with him because he wanted to protect her. This shows that Curleys’ wife is shallow- cares about her appearance, gullible- believes everything that she is told, and naï¿½ve- meaning that she is too trusting to people.
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She hasn’t got any real talent because we haven’t really seen her act out before, so the probability of this dream becoming true is highly unlikely. But she doesn’t want to be in the movies to act. No, she wants to be famous; she wants to be admired and to wear flashy clothes. The affect of this is that she wants to be like how the actresses are, trying to impress the men- just the sad thing is that the men don’t refer her as an actresses, they refer her to as a tart and vow to keep a distance form her.
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When Curleys’ wife dies, Steinbeck presents her death in a sympathetic and descriptive manner- “now her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly…” when he presents her death, we- us and the characters- see the real woman. We see her no more than a tool to be polished and maimed, never to be respected nor confided in. And when she described her dream beforehand, this is a sympathetic ending to her life.
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I think this text of Mice and Men was an interesting and mind bending book with a gripping and plot. There are some things that I know now that I didn’t now before, for instance the Great Depression, I knew roughly what it was but I never knew that this book had the theme of it. Also, loneliness, the other theme, also happens today. Like how it drives people crazy. Like the message John Steinbeck is trying to put out.
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It is obvious to the reader of Lennie’s mental ability by the way he speaks, as he has a definite speech impediment. By having Lennie be described as like a child and by his actions being like a child, it effectively creates sympathy for the character from the readers. This is because it is always easy for a reader to feel sympathetic towards a person with mental difficulties as you can understand how challenging it must be in their situation.
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The events which occur around Lennie are a main factor in creating sympathy for him. The first incident when the reader feels extremely sympathetic towards Lennie is when he is petting a dead mouse and George takes it off him, at which point Lennie starts to cry ‘He heard Lennie’s whimpering cry and wheeled about. “Blubberin’ like a baby? Jesus Christ! A big guy like you’. This highlights Lennie’s immaturity and his childlike characteristics, it is like a young child being scolded and having something taken off them and then starting to cry, this is how Lennie reacts to this situation.
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Often in the book George will say to Lennie ‘Good Boy’, this further shows the childlike character Lennie is, as it has George talking down to Lennie and comforting him, the way a child needs comforting. Early on in the book, Lennie’s pathetic yet amusing attempts at proving to George that he could survive living on his own shows what a sadly hopeless character he is, ‘if you don’t want me, you only jus’ got to say so, and I’ll go off in those hills right there – and live by myself’. We know for a fact that Lennie would be completely incapable of surviving on his own let alone surviving in the mountains, the effect this exchange has on the reader one again points to Lennie’s hopelessness and adds to the sympathy you feel towards him.
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Further on, Lennie is mistakenly taken to be laughing at Curley and Curley begins to punch him to which Lennie only reacts when ordered to by George. Lennie does not realise his own strength and crushes Curley’s hand, which was an unintentional way of getting him to stop. After this incident Lennie is described as ‘crouched fearfully against the wall’ and he cries how he ‘didn’t wanta hurt him’. Just after he has broken Curley’s hand you would not feel any sympathy towards Lennie, it is not until he shows his regret and remorse about the incident that it shows his timid and childlike side again.
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No sympathy is felt towards Curley during this, because of the dislike built up against his character by this point even though he is the one seriously injured, all the sympathy is felt towards Lennie by the characters and the readers alike. After the encounter and being comforted by George, Lennie exclaims ‘I can still tend the rabbits, George?’ it shows how easily satisfied Lennie is and also how easy it is for him to forget major occurrences and get over them. When Lennie is given one of Slim’s pups it is a dream come true for him, George describes how ‘it was a hell of a lot to him. Jesus Christ, I don’t know how we’re gonna get him to sleep in here’. This shows Lennie’s low mentality and how such a small thing can bring so much pleasure to him, the reader feels a certain sympathy for Lennie at this point for his childlike mentality.
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Towards the end of the book, Lennie accidentally kills the puppy which was given to him, by stroking it too hard. Initially he reacts to this by getting upset and crying ‘why do you got to get killed?’ this highlights his lack of knowledge and understanding with the concept of death, the reader feels sympathy towards the sorry state he is. However, Lennie then begins to get frustrated and angry about it and hurls the puppy away, he worries that by what he has done George will not let him ‘tend the rabbits’. At this point the sympathy towards Lennie stops, as this part shows his aggressive and selfish side as he is worrying for himself.
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The situation soon becomes much more serious however, when Lennie goes on to accidentally kill Curley’s wife by breaking her neck whilst stroking her hair. This time Lennie realises more the serious implications of his actions and leaves the ranch to hide in the place where he was instructed to by George. In my opinion, by this point sympathy towards Lennie has all but stopped, even though he killed Curley’s wife by accident he did it by viciously holding his hand over her mouth to stop her screaming, as he felt that him being able to ‘tend the rabbits’ would be jeopardised. This is Lennie once again looking out for himself.
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The sympathy felt towards Lennie is however regained, by the end of the book. Lennie is deeply remorseful about his actions and understand the burden he must be for George ‘I won’t be no more trouble to George’, and how what he does affects everyone else. In this final part Lennie is more childlike than ever, he cries and worries and calls for George like a child for its parent. George finally shoots Lennie and kills him, believing it is the best for Lennie and everyone else, a sort of mercy killing. However, you do not feel deep sympathy towards Lennie at this point as in a way he is free now of his mental burden, in my opinion I am glad that this was what happened to Lennie as his shackles have been cut loose and he nor anyone else has to suffer.
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For my coursework I am going to analyse the character of Slim and say what contribution he makes in ‘Of Mice and Men’. I will describe what he says, what he does, what other people think of him and his relationship with the other ranch hands. We first meet Slim on page fifty five, this is where the lines ‘he moved with a majesty only achieved by royalty and master craftsmen’ and ‘the prince of the ranch’ show how highly Slim is regarded by the ranch hands they use words that describe royalty like majesty, master and prince.
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Slim is not only respected for his skill as a ranch hand as they say ‘he could kill fly on the wheelers butt with a bull whip without touching the mule’ but he is seen as a man who thinks things through especially before speaking when it says ‘his ear heard more… ‘ Finally to show how highly he is respected the text says ‘ his authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love’.
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Steinbeck from the start makes Slim above the other men and this is continuous throughout the whole novel till the end of the story. Slim first major contribution is when George confides in him about how him and Lennie travel round together. Slim is clever in the way he brings this topic up as he says ‘funny how you an’ him string along together. ‘ But he says it calmly and invitingly to George, also the tone Slim uses offers confidence to George to talk.
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He just sat back quiet and receptive’ this shows that Slim is a good listener and does not push people to talk but people after starting a conversation with him start to open up and this is what George does and he has not known Slim long but feels that he can trust Slim and tell him about when he makes Lennie go in the Sacramento river and he gets that off his chest. After being able to confess to Slim about his crime against Lennie George believes that Slim is a good man and trustworthy so he tells him about the situation in Weed and this shows how much integrity Slim has and how he now acquired Georges respect.
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I feel Slim comforts George when he says ‘he ain’t mean, I can tell a mean guy a mile off’ as well as being someone to confess too and talk too. I feel this moves the story forward as we have now filled in gaps out about George and Lennie’s past and how they met, also how George has learnt of Lennie’s behaviour and aunt Clara, the bringing together of the two guys You see how Slim is highly respected by the ranch hands when they turn to his decision when Carlson wants to kill Candy’s old dog.
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I feel there is pressure put on Slim throughout this scene when both parties of Candy and Carlson turn to him for advice and he has takes time over his decision and thinks it through show that he looks at everyone’s aspect in depth and decides what’s best and this is as reason why ranch hands look too him for advice. I think Slim does not really wanted be involved as it says ‘he seemed to shake himself free for speech’.
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Also during this scene you see how he is admired when the man brings the magazine to share with Slim and it is like he is a little child trying to get Slim’s friendship but something, which seems treasured within the ranch hands is Slim’s respect. But Slim is dragged back into the debate of Candy’s dog right at the end and I feel that Slim has the power over the dog’s life but can see why it should be killed as it is getting old and is quality of life is low but he wants the killing to be done properly and that is why he tells Carlson to take a shovel.
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I feel that when Slim says loudly ‘one of my lead mules got a bad hoof. Got to get some tar off it’ he is trying to break the silence and say that life still goes on after death. I feel Slim shows the ranch hands that they should stand up to people when he is arguing with Curley and outwits him, but his respect is emphasised by the fact that Curley can not really answer back and he is in a higher position on the ranch, and you are told of Curley’s violent nature and not once does he even physically threaten Slim, showing his importance on the ranch.
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We see in this scene how Slim and Curley are two different people respected for different reasons, Slim is highly respected for sure as this scene shows but Curley is not really respected but feared as he likes to attack and bully the other workers. When Curley starts to beat lennie you are asked the question why does not Slim intervene in the situation but I feel this contribute to the ‘Of Mice and Men’ it could be that he underestimates Lennie’s true strength but we will never know.
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I feel Slim uses his power to his advantage when he tells Curley to say that his hand got caught in a machine, he shows kindness to George and Lennie and true understanding of Lennie’s condition being physical and mental as he has been informed by George when he confides in him and his strength when he is moving the big bags of hay on the ranch. I feel that you see the strength of Slim’s character when Curley’s wife has died.
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When he inspects Curley’s wife he does it with such softness and grace and shows respect for the dead, but he also understands there is no intention by lennie and the situation he will be in if Curley catches him and this is why he tries to stop Curley from going on the hunt for Lennie when he says “I think you better stay here with your wife” to Curley. Slim is the only ranch hand that understands the relationship between Lennie and George and so when George kills Lennie Slim is the only one who understands and that is why he tells him ‘a guy got to sometimes’ and ‘you hadda, George.
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I swear you hadda. ‘ And by taking him to the pub for a drink is his way of comforting but you know Slim’s understanding goes much deeper than the Carlson and Curley when the last comment is made of the book. I conclude that Slim is a vital person in the book and is the only character apart from George who understands friendship and has a full set of morals. Slim has so much respect it is like a power and he uses this to exercise morals on the ranch hands. He is like the god of the story and is kind of too good to be true and John Steinbeck’s description makes him ideal.
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The is one word that can sum up what everyone in the text thinks of him and that is respect and you wish that more ranch hands were like him. Throughout the whole of the story most ranch hands seem lonely but Slim never seems too I feel he has come to terms with the depression and accepts what seems to be the inevitable life of a migrant worker and that is too be alone but sees hope in George and Lennie. Also without a character like Slim, Curley would bully the ranch hands and he is so violent you are not sure what the story would be like without him.
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Lennie rushed off out of the barn, towards the forest, just as George had said he had to do. On reaching the forest edge Lennie chose to reverse for George, “what are you doing” stated George, “go back and I’ll fulfill you in the forest”. Lennie slowly turned back to the forest in a state of confusion. Curley and Carlson turned up at the barn to see where George had actually gotten to. When George heard the fumbling of the barn door being opened he kneeled down beside
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“There he is, get im'” said Curley when he saw Lennie’s head pop up out of the bushes. Curley and Carlson headed for the area where they had seen him. George, a couple of yards behind was sprinting to try and catch up. He had to stop them from killing Lennie! George heard gunshots and headed towards the noise. “No! ” shouted George gasping for breath, “what have you done”. “You were both in on this weren’t you? you both planned to kill her and get away, you murderous bastards! ”
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“What are you talking about Curley, we didn’t plan this” said George in panic. Were they going to kill him too? Curley raised the gun to George’s head. “Can’t you see that George didn’t do it, put the gun down” said Carlson. Curley stared into the petrified eyes of George for a short moment of time, then took a deep breath and pulled the trigger. “What the hell is wrong with you? ” said Carlson in shock, his feet rooted to the ground. Curley turned back towards the barn. “Curley” yelled Carlson ….. “Curley”.
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The novel of “Of Mice And Men” consists of three themes, Loneliness, Dreams and Anger and Violence. In this essay I will consider the effect and how the anger and violence makes this story gripping. In this thriller John Steinbeck does not only use physical violence but also verbal violence, as a matter of fact verbal violence is used more often. In this explosive tale the first indication of exasperation is shown verbally by George, with the use of blasphemy, when Lennie is drinking from a pool of water from which the water is not running, George says, “Lennie, for God’ sakes don’t drink so much.
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First Lennie neglects where they are going and George constantly has to prompt him, corresponding to that George detects Lennie’s got a inanimate mouse in his pocket but the only reason George is mad at this point is, as the reader finds out later on in the book, Lennie does not know his own strength, even though he loves ‘pettin’ small animals such as mice, he keeps exterminating them, “… You’ve broke it pettin’ it….
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you always killed ’em. ” All this about the dead mouse is significant to the manslaughter of Curley’s wife, whom due to the sexist character of the male workers on the ranch has not been given a name. The ensuing incident that makes George just puncture out in anger is when they are having beans for supper, Lennie, like a little child wants ketchup even though there is none, “I like beans with ketchup. ” To which George replies, “well, we ain’t got no ketchup. ” Minutes later Lennie repeats, “I like ’em with ketchup. ” To this juvenile behaviour of Lennie, George bursts open even saying things he regrets later, “….
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If I was alone I could live so easy…. No trouble. No mess…. You crazy son-of-a-bitch. You keep me in hot water all the time…. I wisht I could put you in a cage. ” This incident makes it more gripping because before this incident the reader feels tensed and at edge but at this point even though Lennie’s behaviour’s puerile we sympathise for him. But the thing that makes this act enthralling is both the emotions, even though there meanings are totally different join together and mix. Just before the resolution of the first ramification of the book we get a colossal intimation to what is going to emerge ensuing on in the story.
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As George and Lennie are perching down eating supper near the pool, George advises Lennie that if he gets in commotion on the ranch then he should come and conceal by a bush nearby, “…. You can remember this place, can’t you? …. Well, look. Lennie -if you jus’ happen to get into trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an’ hide in the brush. ” This expression leaves the reader anxious and wanting to know when Lennie is going to get into trouble and in this way it makes the reader not wanting to put the book down until this event does come and so this is what makes the novel more nail-biting.
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The next incident in which there is a mention of violence or hostility is in the start of the second instalment, “…. Ya see the stable buck’s a nigger. ” This incident is when the old swamper, candy is showing George and Lennie there beds and he is describing a few employees who are working at the ranch and at this point they are talking about crooks who’s a stable buck and so this incident shows us that the personas are colour prejudiced and at this point the reader is in mixed emotions, depending on your ethnic background, as I have experienced it myself.
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When Curley comes into the bunk house, it’s the inauguration of antagonism between George/Lennie and Curley the ‘boss’s’ flesh, this is when George is speaking sharply with Curley, “S’pose he don’t want to talk?…. We travel together…. Yeah, it’s that way…. He can talk if he wants to tell you anything. ” and this is what Curley says to George in a sharp tone, “Let the big guy talk…. By Christ he’s gotta talk when he’s spoke to. What the hell are you getting’ into it for?…. An’ you wont let the big guy talk, is that it.
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” As the reader reads this part of the book they can clearly see the rivalry between the characters arise and so this is what makes the story more stirring. When Curley departs from the bunk house we get notified of what is going to materialized between the tensed characters, “…. I’m scared. You gonna have trouble with that curly guy…. he’s gonna take a sock at you the first chance he gets…. we’re gonna get the can. ” This incident leaves the reader full of sympathy for the two itinerant workers. All the constant emotion swings makes the story an electrifying novelette.
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As the scene opens for the commenced of the third constituent, George is delineating his life with Lennie, to Slim, and the perpetual use of foul language and blasphemy manifests how much of their life is congested of violence. “Jesus Christ, I don’t know how we’re gonna get him to sleep in here…. Dumb bastard like he is…. I socked him over the head with a fence picket…. ” As this intercourse goes on the reader gets to comprehend a lot more enlightenment of Lennie and how imbecilic he is, and as it goes on the reader feels more and more condolences for the ‘beast’ and this is what makes the story more of a cliff hanger.
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The adjacent circumstance in which vexation and violence play’s a part is the euthanasia of Candy’s ‘old an’a cripple’ dog this also eloquent to the demise of Lennie which arises at the end of the novel. In this incident Candy’s old dog, which his had, since it was a pup is shot, and most of the workers agreed to the fact that it was beneficial to the dog, ” he’s all stiff with rheumatism…. He ain’t no good to himself…. Look Candy. This ol’ dog jus’ suffers hisself… all the time…. he don’t have no fun,…. Well you ain’t being kind to him keepin’ him alive,….
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Can’t eat, can’t see, can’t even walk without hurtin. ” All these quotes tell the reader that Candy’s dog was very antediluvian and it’s life was a melancholy, but when Carlson takes the old dog exterior of the bunk house to strafe it, there was silence in the bunk house until they heard the ‘boom’ of the gunshot, the characters in the book try to carry on in their own business and divert the attention of Carlson, but there like for violence and anger overcomes them and they can’t not resist, “What the hell’s takin’ him so long.
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” Even if their was a viewer instead of a reader whatching the film, they would not concentrate on what is happening on the screen but would try to listen for the ‘bang’ of the gunshot, as I experienced it whilst whatching the motion picture. The decimation of candy’s dog is like a premonition to what happens to Lennie in the final part of the story. All this fuss about the dog’s shooting is what makes the story more hair rising.
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As Carlson comes back after engulfing the old dog, Curley burst into the bunk house looking for his wife, seconds later he goes off into the barn looking for Slim followed by Carlson and Whit as they think there is going to be a conflict, “I guess maybe I’d like to see this… Curley’s just spoilin’ or he wouldn’t start for Slim…. But jus’ the same, he better leave Slim alone. ” this authenticates how much the itinerant workers relish violence.
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Whilst rest of the hands have gone to witness an upbringing confrontation, George, Lennie and candy are the only people left in the bunk house. In this affair Lennie shows a lot of verbal violence through his presages, when George mention what they are going to get when they are living ‘offa the fatta the lan’, “…. A couple stripe cats, but you gotta watch out them cats don’t get the little rabbits. ” Lennie reaction with this is an explosion of anger, “you jus’ let ‘ em try to get the rabbits, I’ll break their God damn necks. I’ll ….
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I’ll smash ‘ em with a stick. ” This shows how violent Lennie can be even though he’s a ‘dumb bastard’. The cats neck’s that have been mention run parallel to the incident, which happens later on involving Curley’s wife and her neck. This brings up excitement and tension in the reader who can now tell how violent Lennie really is. After a hassle in the barn all four workers, Slim, Carlson, Whit and the ‘boss’s son’, Curley come back in the bunk house remonstrating at this point a fight is imminent as you can tell by the intense action and speech of all the workers.
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As Curley is looking to pick up a fight, he chooses his opponent very carefully; first he tries ‘to throw a scare into Slim’ and he couldn’t make it ‘stick’ he then tries Carlson who fights back verbally using threats, “I’ll kick your gad damn head off. ” As he’s distinguishing his next victim he sees Lennie sniggering at him so Lennie becomes the next prey, “What the hell you laughin’ at?…. Come on, ya big bastard. Get up on your feet. No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me. ” As Lennie and Curley are fighting instead of stopping the fight George is urging Lennie on “get him, Lennie.
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Don’t let him do it”. John Steinbeck uses words like ‘slashed, smashed and slugging’ to describe the fight which makes the fight sound dramatic, the other reason why the fight is very dramatic is that this is the first mention in the book of physical violence and it shows the reader the brute strength of Lennie, and so this is what makes the story even more dramatic. The fist time Crooks comes into the scene he is involved in anger and violence. When Lennie goes into Crooks’ chamber he speaks sourly with Lennie, “You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in here but me.
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” In this incident the reader can again see how much of Lennie’s life is in anger and violence, you can see this, when Crooks threatens Lennie by saying George isn’t coming back, “S’pose George don’t come back no more…. I said s’pose George went into town tonight and you never heard of him no more…. Nobody can’t tell what a guy’ll do,… Lets say he want to come back and can’t. S’pose he gets killed or hurt so he can’t come back…. What’ll you do then? ” Lennie who is infuriated as he viscously retaliates, ” Who hurt George? As Lennie demands this he walks dangerously towards Crooks, Crooks sees the danger approaching him and edged back.
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This incident builds anxiety into the reader who gats a slight threat of warning that maybe George is really hurt and this is what makes the book more thrilling. The way the scene opens for the next incident which includes anger and violence is, Lennie in the barn holding his accidentally killed puppy, he says, “Why do you got to get killed?…. I didn’t bounce you hard. ” This suddenly reminds him of what George had said to him earlier on in the drama, “But you ain’t gonna get in no trouble, because if you do, I won’t let you tend the rabbits.
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” This makes Lennie even more angry as he explodes, “Now maybe George ain’t gonna let me tend the rabbits…. God damn you…. Why do you got to get killed? ” Lennie’s guilt conscious gets the better of him, “This aint no bad thing like I got to hide in the bush…. Maybe George won’t care,…. God damn little son-of-a-bitch wasn’t nothing to George. ” At this point Curley’s wife comes into the barn; this is the incident in which Lennie kills Curley’s wife, as the reader already had got a hint.
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He kills her by stroking her hair first as he likes touching soft objects, and then holding on tight and then he shook her holding her hair firmly. The reader knows that Lennie did it accidentally because of Lennie’s panic speech, “Please don’t…. Oh! Please don’t do that. George’ll be mad. Lennie regrets killing Curley’s wife even though he killed her unintentionally, ” I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing. “. When George runs out of the barn to hide in the bush everything goes quiet in the barn, this is a symbol that Curley’s wife is dead.
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This incident runs parallel with the earlier incident with the cats because, Lennie says he will break the necks of their ‘future’ cats that try to get between him and their ‘future’ rabbits, but in this incident Curley’s wife is the object that’s coming between Lennie and his dream rabbits. The thing that makes this story, more of a thriller is that the reader is made anxious after not knowing what George will do. When Lennie reaches the bush is mad at himself and regrets ruining his and George’s dream, he says, “I can go right off there an’ find a cave …. an’ never have no ketchup- but I wont care.
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If George don’t want … I’ll go away. I’ll go away. ” At this point Lennie’s guilt started playing with him, in his head he sees his Aunt Clara, she lectures him of how Lennie never thinks about George, “You never give a thought to George”. After Aunt Clara was gone from Lennie’s head a gigantic rabbit came and insulted George by saying, “Tend rabbits…. You crazy bastard. You ain’t fit to lick the boots of no rabbits. ” This incident shows the readers that Lennie does have a conscience and it leaves the reader to argue about ‘who is responsible for the death of Curley’s wife’ and that is what makes the story more gripping.
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Finally George finds Lennie hiding near the bush, George has made his mind up and he is going to kill Lennie for the benefit of Lennie because of Curley’s violent instructions, “Shoot for his guts. That’ll double’ im over. ” This would make Lennie suffer and Lennie would have a long and painful death. That’s why this incident is primitive to the shooting of Candy’s dog, as he is also shot in the back of the head. The reader knows that George does not want to kill George but is shooting Lennie for his benefit because it says George has great difficulty talking to Lennie before killing him.
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It is very perplexing for George to kill Lennie, this is shown when George raises the gun to Lennie’s head but his hands shake so he drops his hand to the ground. When George kills Lennie it is a very antagonising moment for both, the reader and the two characters, this is what makes the story gripping. This novel ‘Of Mice And Men’ is full of anger and violence and that is what amuses the reader. After Lennie kills the small mouse in the first part, the next thing he kills is something bigger, the pup and then Curley’s wife and this shows the reader that Lennie was unaware of his own strength.
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This is a very touching story of the friendship of two men who found themselves on the margins of society and on the verge of economic impoverishment during the Great Depression in the 1930s.  The story begins with the appearance of two workers who on foot cross an immense country in search of work. One of them is George Milton, a squat man, who is looking at the world through the prism of cynicism and mistrust. His companion is Lennie Hillie. He is a burly and sturdy man, to whom George refers as a fearsome brother and exhorts him to the truth.
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George and Lennie are rather unusual companions. The literary analysis of the image of Lennie immediately allows us to draw a parallel with the image of Benjy Compson from the book “Noise and Fury” by William Faulkner. This hero also was a child in his soul, but an adult from the outside. The similarity can also be evoked by the image of John Coffey from Stephen King’s “The Green Mile,” so vividly embodied in the film of the same name. John Coffey is as great as Lennie, suffering from a mental disorder, but endowed with something bright: Coffey is an unusual talent, and Lennie is kind and naive that is rare in our times.
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George and Lennie are rather unusual companions. The of the image of Lennie immediately allows us to draw a parallel with the image of Benjy Compson from the book “Noise and Fury” by William Faulkner. This hero also was a child in his soul, but an adult from the outside. The similarity can also be evoked by the image of John Coffey from Stephen King’s “The Green Mile,” so vividly embodied in the film of the same name. John Coffey is as great as Lennie, suffering from a mental disorder, but endowed with something bright: Coffey is an unusual talent, and Lennie is kind and naive that is rare in our times.
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George and Lennie cherish one common dream: they want to acquire their own land, grow their crops there, take care of living creatures, and most importantly – Lennie wants to grow and feed rabbits. But for this, they need to earn money. That’s why they are looking for a new California ranch, where they will be given shelter and work because certain circumstances forced them to leave their previous place of work. In this episode, Steinbeck acts as a fancy fisherman. At the beginning of the story, he puts the bait on the hook, only casually mentioning that friends have to leave their previous place of work soon; then throws this bait, telling the story in the previous city, when Lennie was attracted by the red dress of one girl and decided to touch it without any sexual overtones, but was accused of rape; and after that he skillfully cuts by accompanying his story with an event with the wife of Curley on the farm.
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The culmination of the whole work is tied to Lennie’s love for everything soft and pleasant to touch. He wanted to touch the dress of the girl, stroked the mice and newborn puppies, and also stroked the silky hair of Curley’s wife, and at her own request, but due to her mental inferiority, he was not aware of all his actions. The woman, frightened by how much Lennie’s excessive attention is paid to her hair, tries to escape, but in the strong hands of the mighty, she is a helpless puppy, whom Lennie literally “fell in love with” to death. All he has now is to seek escape again.
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Unfortunately, George is well aware that his friend can not live any longer. Like a blood brother, he continues to take care of a beloved companion, he chooses the only painless way out of the situation: warning the bloodthirsty violence over a friend, George shoots Lennie and save him from the brutal massacre of the crowd, which most likely will end with a painful death, or from a madhouse where Lennie will suffer for the rest of his days. It is hardly possible to underestimate the tragedy of this episode, and all charges of lack of humanity on the part of George can be generated only by a superficial attitude to the author’s ingenious text. Lennie’s death is not murder. The relationship between George and Lennie is the personification of true partnership and “inhuman” humanity.
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“Of Mice and Men” is the story of the triumph of true friendship and fellowship. In his short story, Steinbeck, probably like no other writer, brings the life of poor and destitute people to a new, symbolic level. The reader can definitely find in it a deep experience of the tragic feelings, as well as a message to the fact that, contrary to any incidents, life goes on. Through the finest and most sophisticated smears, Steinbeck depicts a verbal picture in which this deep-seated aspiration of the working class of America is veiled to the realization of one’s own aspirations and hopes. The ending of the novel is painfully tragic. Besides this, avoiding dogmatic and formalized forms and postulates, the story reveals the vices that prevailed in that society: racism, sexism, intolerance, prejudices towards mentally limited people. He describes all these flaws within the framework of absolutely natural and human forms.
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One dictionary defines Innocence as ‘Freedom from sin, moral wrong, or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil. ’ Thus innocence is the state wherein one is, in a sense, pure; free from doubt and dread and woe, unmarred by sorrow or the countless ills running rampant in the world. Innocence is associated with children and animals and nature. But for growth to occur, Innocence must be slain in order for Experience to flourish. This bittersweet transition from child to adult is the natural course of life: one cannot stay innocent forever.
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Oftentimes, this transition from innocent child to experienced adult occurs in the face of hostility, as in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, where the young lovers, to combat the hatred their families have for one another, sacrifice their love, their innocence, and their lives. This theme exists as well in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, where George kills Lennie to save him from suffering, and in the doing so, also slays their shared dream of owning land and being free men.
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This generation-spanning hatred consumes everything it touches: it causes the deaths of Mercutio at the hands of Tybalt, and drives Romeo to avenge his friend’s death by slaying Tybalt in turn. The hostility borne of this act forces Romeo to flee and Juliet to feign death; Romeo, consumed by grief, kills himself, and Juliet upon waking to find her husband dead, does the same.
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In Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie, two farm hands, share a dream to own a piece of land, and in doing so, become free men. George appoints himself caretaker of Lennie, a large, abnormally strong man with the mind of a young child. The hostility that proves the downfall of these two men stems from Curley, the son of the ranch owner. A man possessed of a short temper and a violent streak, his cruelty forces his wife to seek the company of other men. She spends time with Lennie.
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Warned that her presence causes trouble, he attempts to silence her when she creates a scene, and inadvertently kills her, his actions driven by fear concerning the hostility of Curley. Alarmed by his actions, he flees. The slaying of Innocence occurs when George kills Lennie in order to save him from cruel treatment and death at the hands of Curley and the other men. But in slaying Lennie, George also kills their dream of owning land, and being free men, and his own innocence as well. In both these stories hostility drives the conflict, propelling actions onward to the end, where innocence is slain and experience gleaned.
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In Romeo and Juliet the death of the two lovers causes the families to ‘grow up,’ and abolish the hatred and hostility between the two houses. In killing themselves the title characters also kill the hostility that led them to their deaths, and though innocence dies, peace is achieved. In Of Mice and Men, the hostility of Curley does not die; what dies is the innocence of a dream and the the innocence of childhood, symbolized by Lennie. George gains experience, he ‘grows up,’ and in doing so realizes the futility of the dream of being free in the face of the hostility of the landowners, as represented by Curley.
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And so Innocence is slain, and gives way to experience. Hostility remains in the world to aid in that transition. One cannot be Innocent always, and death and tragedy produce lessons one must learn in order to live in the world. Lovers die, as do hopes and dreams, but no matter how tragic or heartbreaking the events may be, one always gains lessons, often severe, from these losses. Such is life, as reflected in these works.
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As seen in the book Of Mice and Men, author John Steinbeck uses a range of different names for his character, but as it seems, it is not just a coincidence that they are named this way. Steinbeck uses these specific names to match personality of a character and to show the significance of these characters to the society. Many characters names begin with a C for example Candy, Crooks, Curley, to create a direct reference to ‘Cain’ a nomad from the bible; who was cursed by God that he would never be able to settle down because of his wrongdoings for power, this signifies that the characters and Cain have a similarity; they are not able to settle down but are forced to keep moving from one area to another.
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Lennie Small, one of the two most major and necessary characters in the storyline, has a very ironic name. ‘Lennie’ is short for ‘Leonard’ or abbreviated to ‘Leo’ has a definition of lion, has symbolizes courage, rulership and strength, which is a complete opposite of Lennie’s character. ‘Small’ is also an addition to the irony, where Steinbeck uses this to emphasize his huge physical appearances. “I don’t want no trouble, don’t let him sock me George”. As seen in the book, Lennie is a ‘coward’, as he has a huge body and strength, yet doesn’t know how to defend himself in certain situations and cannot stand-up for himself.
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Slim is perhaps the most unique characters throughout the whole book. The reason as to why Steinbeck has decided to name this character in this way is to reflect on the American society (similar to Curley’s wife’s reasoning) as to where people were depressing and rarely had a reason to laugh or be ‘positive’ meaning that his physical appearance as being a tall skinny man refers to this. Slim however, is often thought as a hero, and thinks deeply about his actions toward other people as seen in chapter 6 where Slim out of all men goes over to check on Curley’s Wife’s lifeless body. “Then Slim went quietly over to her, and he felt her wrist. One lean finger touched her check, and then his hand went under her slightly twisted neck and his fingers explored her neck.” In other words, Slim’s naming is decided on to reflect and perhaps to criticize the American society at the time.
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Carlson, is the complete opposite of Slim, with ‘Carl’ meaning ‘man’ or ‘manly’ and ‘son’ meaning son, creating a definition of man’s son. Carlson as seen in the earlier parts of the story is seen to show no respect or value to Candy’s dog because of its putrid odor, not considering that the pet could be Candy’s only companion, showing that his character is arrogant and selfish. Carlson’s name is also decided to reflect on the American society, where his physical appearance also represents the average man. “Carlson stepped back to let Slim precede him, and then the two of them went out the door”. Nonetheless, Carlson shows in chapter 2 that he pays respect to the more superior than him, in this case to Slim, as he precedes back to let Slim past by. In conclusion, the names of characters in ‘Of Mice and Men’ are not just coincidences. In fact, the names John Steinbeck have chosen are to symbolize and signify certain images and personalities and sometimes to criticize the American society, therefore, names in ‘Of Mice and Men’ are also a great significance to the story.
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Of Mice and Men is a novella centred on the disincentives of America during the depression in the 1930’s. The country known as ‘the land of opportunity,’ is dismissed as it became deprived and inept. Many men were itinerant workers that travelled from ranch to ranch looking for wages that would be sufficient till they moved on. These types of men were the loneliest, with no companionship. It is this transient migrant lifestyle which highlights the importance of the relationship between Lennie and George, a rarity among the other characters to be exact.
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George and Lennie are an unusual package deal within the novel. From the beginning Steinbeck enforces the idea of a parent –child relationship. He distinctively sets the two apart as they ‘walked in single file’ and ‘one stayed behind the other.’ From first sight, a dynamic in their relationship is established. Although they are outwardly of the same class, George is still the one if front, revealing himself as the leader.
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Although it seems as though Lennie is dependent on George, this is not the case. I believe that George, a stoic man enjoys the company of Lennie; however a burden he may seem. Steinbeck uses the subtlety of George who only confides in Slim to depict the pride he has of Lennie ‘he’s dumb as hell, but he ain’t crazy.’ George at times creates a softer tone of voice when talking about Lennie. The approval of Slim from George’s compliments ensures the reader that George genuinely likes Lennie. George himself refers to ranch men as being the ‘loneliest guys in the world.’ We can assume that deep down George is afraid of this happening to him, and losing Lennie. No doubt this would’ve have crossed his mind due to Lennie getting in trouble all the time. His fear is turning ‘mean’ by becoming lonely; he is after all comfortable with Lennie, being with him for most his short life.