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My best friend Lennie is dead now. Lennie’s body was lying on one side of the river where the golden foothill slopes up to the strong and rocky Gabilan Mountains. At that moment the place was so lifeless, a little wind was moving among the leaves. At that time the place was so quiet and soulless. We were thinking about Lennie’s burial. Slim, Candy, Crooks and I were thinking Lennie should be buried near by the pool because Lennie loved that place so much. We wanted Lennie buried near the pool he loved, in a quiet serene place. When I was burying Lennie I remembered all the things he used to say to me. His dreams of the rabbits he would tend when he and I got our land. He was only worried about me not letting him ‘tend the rabbits. Lennie liked to pet soft things, like puppies and dead mice. We know this got him into trouble in Weed when he tried to feel a girl’s soft red dress: she thought he was going to attack her. And now I remember all the things he did and he used to say.
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On Lennie’s gravestone I will write “To my dear friend and companion 1905-1937”. I promised Lennie’s Aunt Clara that I would care for him. I looked after all Lennie’s affairs, such as carrying his work card, and trying to steer him out of potential trouble. Now I feel completely alone, upset, lonely and lost. I don’t know where to go. Now I think Lennie was everything in my world. It seems to me I miss him a lot. I couldn’t keep Lennie’s promise. I am sorry Lennie. Forgive me if you can.
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At this time I have decided to think about my future. Lennie has died because of me. The end was dreadful, with the death of Lennie. At least Lennie’s death was painless, and Lennie died imagining the dream. My dream and Candy’s dreams were shattered by the absence of Lennie. Candy has only his own death to look forward to and he has nothing but the life of an old ranch hand to live.
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At the end of the day, the story has a great sense of irony. For instance, I said that I wanted Lennie out of my life but I am emotionally lost without Lennie. Another thing I can’t forget is when Candy told me that he wished he’d shot his own dog himself. I have taken this information from Candy as advice, and I shot Lennie in to save him from a cruel death.
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At the moment, I have decided to leave the ranch and go to another place so I can live better. In this ranch I just remember Lennie everywhere. I don’t know what to do. I think I should go to another place and make Lennie’s dream come true. Lennie told me that he wanted to have rabbits in the garden; however, I don’t like it at all. Anyway I have to do this for my dear friend Lennie. I want his dream to come true. Therefore, I will make his dream true. I will go to another place and find some work and make money for Lennie’s dream. I will always keep our dream. I am so sorry Lennie. I hope you will forgive me. If I still believed in God (a part of me that was there but now has gone) I would pray to ask Lennie to forgive me. Lennie you were my only friend, my best friend, and I wish you were still here for me, only me. And I also wish Lennie to be with me for the whole of my life but my wish will not be coming true anymore.
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Now I feel even guiltier about Lennie nearly drawing when I told him to jump in the Sacramento River. I am really sorry Lennie as at that time I was mentally lost. I didn’t know what to do. I was telling you to jump in the river. I am so sorry about that, I didn’t mean to do that to you. I am so sorry, please forgive me. That time my emotions were co9nfused and I wasn’t in a good mood. I was so angry; I didn’t know what I was saying. Though I knew that you don’t know how to swim I still told you to jump in the river. Now I know how I feel without you. You are the only friend I ever had. You were more like family, not only a friend. I am so sorry Lennie.
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I don’t feel like Lennie is dead. I feel like he is sitting beside me and talking about the stupid pups. The place is so lifeless. I don’t feel like giving him up. He was the best friend I ever had. Thank you so much Lennie, for being my friend. You are really nice person, I didn’t know that when you were alive. I used to think you were not important but now it seems you are a really important person. I am so sorry Lennie that I couldn’t keep your promise.
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Steinbeck uses non-standard English for discussion. Lennie is depicted to be a sluggish childish character; he imitates a kid asking George lots of concerns about there ‘dream’. Lennie repeats this rather a lot “George the length of time it gon na be till we get the bunnies?” This is Lennies dream to have bunnies, and Steinbeck repeats this dream it’s a kind of rhythm throughout the book.
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Steinbeck makes George appear rather parent like. George is a talker, he tells the story of him and Lennie moving away to a place of there own typically to Lennie. We think that George sometimes gets rather sick of Lennie as he repeats things and asks George to tell him “the story” we can see this by “I jus’ tol’ you, jus’ las’ night” this is composed in an American method of speaking, he utilizes images as when you read this you state it to yourself in your head and you can imagine the way George is speaking.
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The story was set in the 1930’s black individuals where extremely disrespected and utilized for servants in these days. Likewise they wouldn’t be described as ‘black individuals’ it would be far more racial as we can see from what they call Crooks “nigger”. When crooks addresses Slender he calls him “Mr slim” none of the other characters resolve him in this method, this reveals us that he has respect for Slim and that he thinks Slim is a guy of significance rather like the boss.
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Slim is portrayed to be “almighty” we get the impression that Slim is looked up to by the other men, they respect him and when they need answers or advice it is usually Slim to whom they turn to. As when Curley and Lennie fight it is Slim who everyone turns to. George asks him “Slim will we get canned now?” This shows he has power and the men believe he can take authority in situations like this. Steinbeck makes the characters dialogue very brief and it lacks detail they say what is necessary without detail, whereas when Steinbeck is describing a character or a place he uses descriptive language and Standard English, also he uses American dialect for certain words.
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Because of the World Depression at the time this dream seemed non-realistic, as no one had any money and people were struggling to get jobs. They all thought the dream would provide them with a better life, more money and a sense as belonging. The dream gave them a feeling of happiness and hope. The dream was also used as a source of comfort, Lennie would craftily use the dream to comfort George when he was angered, and George would bribe Lennie with the dream ‘But you ain’t gonna get in to no trouble, because if you do, I wont let you tend the rabbits.’
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Curly’s wife also tells us about her dream in the book. Her dream is different to the ranch workers; he dream is a typical woman’s dream to become famous in the movies. This was really all the women could do at the time, she was hoping for glamour and attention, to improve her status and have some independence. The reason for wanting the dream seems the same for everyone in the book even though they are different ‘types’ of people.
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When Whit brings in the pulp magazine with the letter written by Bill Tenner, the men are all very impressed. They are not certain that Bill wrote the letter, but Whit is convinced he did, and tries to convince the others. In the transient life of these workers, it is rare to leave any kind of permanent mark on the world. In this letter Bill Tenner has achieved some of the immortality the other men cannot imagine for themselves. I think this upsets the workers a bit and makes them long for their dreams to come true even more
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I felt some compassion for Curley’s other half as she was the loneliest of them all. She had a partner who didn’t love or respect her as he went to brothels. In addition to Curley’s better half I pitied Slim. He has a great deal of responsibility and calms everything down in a tense situation. He was the only person who understood that George shot Lennie after the death of Curley’s wife, which reveals the quantity of obligation that is on his shoulders.
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I have compassion for Lennie as when he had actually killed Curley’s partner he had actually messed up the dream for everyone. He would have felt bad about this and the fact that he would not have the ability to tend the bunnies which was among his worries. The other being Ggeorge leaving him, which would imply that he would be lonely. His worry run’s loose as he listens to a talking rabbit:.
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The only way George can escape this position is through his and Lennies’s dream, of owning a farm. George and Lennie ‘aint got nothing to look ahead to’ but the dream sets them a goal. Then George has to do a horrible thing by killing his only friend. He didn’t even seem to think about other alternatives but he saved Lennie from being tortured. Steinbeck builds this up from when Candy’s dog was shot to save it from the pain of living up until George saving Lennie from the pain of being tortured
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I have little empathy to with Curley, as he is lonelier than ever without his wife. He is always getting into fights, which could mean that he is looking for attention. I have sympathy for is the Boss, as he owns the place. He is most probably rich and has a lot of luxuries compared to the workers .I do have some empathy towards the boss .He also has a lot of responsibility as he has to run the ranch and has a son like Curley who is always causing trouble.
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Racism features strongly in the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I think Steinbeck manages to sum up every thing that was wrong with racism and American culture of the time, whilst keeping his views to himself. Steinbeck decided not to write either for or against racism, he just gave you a few scenarios for you the reader to decide whether it was ethical, I think this was very effective as it provokes a response in the reader and also coincides with the plot and time that the story was written.
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There is a lot of racial prejudice shown in Of Mice And Men towards Crooks the black and crippled stable buck. Crooks is a more permanent worker than the other ranch hands and has his own room off the side of the stable on the far side of the ranch in isolation. Crooks is separated from the rest because the other ranch hands do not want him in the bunkhouse with them because he is black.
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Mainly during section 4 Steinbeck involves Crooks more and involves more racial issues linked with him. The language Steinbeck uses is of a racist context and mainly tells the story of discrimination against black people in the form of Crooks telling Lennie about how he is excluded from the others because he is black. “S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ’cause you was black.
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Further more on page 41 Steinbeck writes to suggest that Crooks is sometimes used for entertainment, at Christmas Crooks was forced to fight with some one called “Smitty” “little skinner name of Smitty took after the nigger. Done pretty good, too. The guys wouldn’t let him use his feet, so the nigger got him” this quote clearly shows the way Crooks (described as a nigger) being attacked, probably in relation to the colour of his skin.
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Crooks is often called names as well, for instance when Curley’s wife used her social status as a white person to over power him. “She turned to him in scorn. ‘listen nigger” and “well you keep your place then, Nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny.” This shows Curley’s wife telling Curley how if he didn’t shut up she would have him hung, probably lynched, this sort of behaviour wasn’t uncommon and Crooks receives a lot of verbal abuse if he doesn’t conform to white peoples rules.
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The conditions in which Crooks lives are sub-standard when compared to the others. “Crooks bed was a long box filled with straw.” (pg. 98) Crooks is described as sleeping in quarters and being treated no better than an animal. This is again, is clearly racism. Crooks also feels left out due to not being listened to. “If I say something, why its just a nigger saying it” (pg. 103) Crooks is saying that no one listens to him and his opinions are un-voiced and worthless.
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However in the culture we live today I doubt such a novel would be so accurate describing racism as such a common place and I also think that it wouldn’t be so acceptable as in general people today are more open minded and racism isn’t as common as it was in America during the 1930s. A few words such as nigger, for definite would not be used as it may offend readers and is no longer acceptable and many more changes along those lines would have to be made.
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‘Of Mice and Men’ was written in 1930’s America during the Great Depression. The story begins with Lennie and George fleeing there previous work place, the ending is tragic. During the novel we learn about the friendship that Lennie and George share, along with the dreams and ambitions of the other characters. The story is told in third person, this provides us with a clear unbiased view of all the characters.
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Crooks, the black stable buck feels insecure about his race, this makes him feel he is segregated from the rest as he is the only black person on the ranch, ‘Crooks the negro stable buck’. Because of his race he is discriminated against, no-one ever goes into his room or talks to him ‘I’m black, they say I stink’. Crooks is cruel to Lennie ‘You got no right to come in my room’ this shows a sense of insecurity and bitterness, he is trying to shut people out, as this is the only way he knows to live.
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Crooks lives in a barn, he is treated like an animal, he sleeps in a straw bed ‘Crooks bunk was a long box filled with straw’, this shows nobody has any respect for him, he is considered worthless, this will add to his insecurity. ‘Square four-paned window’ this represents that he is isolated and he does not like letting people in, just like a small window does not let a lot of light in.
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Black people were discriminated against in the 1930’s, they were treated with little respect, they were treated like nothings ‘Why it’s just a nigger saying it’. Crooks was brought up where the majority of the population were not coloured, ‘There wasn’t another coloured family for miles’ this will make Crooks insecure all his life he has been around people that are inferior to him. Steinbeck uses imagery to compare Crooks to an animal.
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Another character that experiences insecurity is Candy, he is the cleaner, he has only one hand and has been at the ranch for a long time. ‘old candy, the swamper came in’. Candy will experience insecurity throughout the novel because he is old and has only one hand this will make him feel insecure because he doesn’t have any job security, as if he loses his job he will not be able to get another as no one else will want an old disabled worker, his whole livelihood depends on someone else he has no control over his life.
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He compares himself to a dog, like he cannot protect himself, just like his dog that was shot. His only companion was his dog and now he does not have the dog he doesn’t have anybody ‘when they can me here I wish somebod d shoot me’. We know that Candy is insecure because he seems desperate to join George and Lennie in their dream ‘I won’t have no place to go, an’ I can’t get no more than this’ when he fails to join their dream this makes him feels like he has no future.
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Curley’s wife is the wife of Curley, the bosses son. She is the only women on the ranch and extremely flirtatious with other ranch workers. Being the only women on the ranch she feels she has power over the men, she flirts with them to overcome her insecurity, she tries to cover up that she is insecure, and she marries Curley to escape her loneliness. Everybody thinks that she is dangerous, but she knows more than everybody thinks ‘Think I don’t know where they all went’.
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We know she is insecure because she has dream too, she makes herself seem powerless to make the men think she is more vulnerable. By not making her dream come true she becomes insecure about life and puts up a defensive barrier. She wears a lot of makeup and red, this symbolises danger and the fact that she wears a lot of makeup tells us that she is insecure and has low self esteem ‘her finger nail were red’.
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Other characters in the novel that experience insecurity are Bill Tanner and Whit, they used to work on the ranch. ‘Remember, Bill Tanner? Worked here about three months ago’ this gives the impression that the work there is impermanent and transient. This can show the other ranch workers that nothing is everlasting and this can make them feels insecure. They don’t have any job security, they can never settle down this will make them feel insecure because they don’t have anything around them that they can rely on, they don’t have familiar surroundings.
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Lennie is described using animal imagery. Animals have a low intelligence level just like Lennie, he cannot think for himself ‘the way a bear drags his paws’. Animals are commonly found in packs, if they are left without their pack they become very vulnerable to other animals, George is like Lennie’s pack, this will give Lennie a sense of insecurity as he knows that he cannot survive by himself. He is constantly asking for Georges approval, he relies on George over everything ‘Where we goin’, George’.
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So many of the men on the ranch are insecure because they only have their dreams, they have no real life ambitions that they know will truly happen. They have no job or house security this can make them insecure because they do not have any idea of where their life is going to go, they literally have nothing. They are so insecure because they cannot have relationships or friendships with the other ranch workers, this will make them feel like they cannot be themselves and make them feel alone and on their own.
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In my opinion George does feel a sense of insecurity at the end of the novel because he does no have Lennie anymore, even though sometimes he did not want Lennie with him at all times ‘if I was alone I could live so easy’ he still liked him to be there and to know that he had someone that relied on him even if he did not rely on himself. Without Lennie George feels alone just like the other ranch workers did, he will soon become as insecure and enclosed as them.
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Consider the theme of loneliness in ‘Of Mice and Men’. How does it impact the relationships and relationships in the book? This novel was written by John Steinbeck which was set in the 1930s in Salinas Soledad which remains in California. The unique includes lots of historic elements which have affected the characters in this unique and among them consists of, “The terrific anxiety” Which leads the books motivation for the popular author John Steinbeck which he mainly based on his own experience.
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In those days people travelled a lot in a different way to how we travel now. In those days migrant workers took a trip lavish ranges looking for a task. There are various themes in which are based throughout the entire book, such as isolation, happiness, nature, dreams and truth: – Which even lead to disaster. Many of the people in this novel have really lonely lives primarily due to the fact that they are migrant workers and as we understand they don’t have time to make any good friends or have any time to spend with their families.
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2 great examples would be Candy due to the fact that of his age and Scoundrels due to the fact that of his race. This novel includes two main characters George and Lennie, who are an anomalous pair of migrant employees that look after each other. They are completely the reverse of each other. George is the one who has the communicative face and thinks about all of their issues and ideas and informs the other one what to do.
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Resembling this all of the time, in what ever the story it is, always pictures that you would be the little fast one with sharp features. Lennie is the guy that is tall and always does what he is informed and has an ill-defined, strong, and effective body and does not know his own strength. Steinbeck describes him as the one with no shape in his face and his body. Lennie drags his feet when he strolls and acts like an animal. In the descriptions of these 2 men their appearance is totally various. George dresses cool and tidy, while Lennie gowns extremely shabby.
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Just by the description of George and Lennie, you can clearly see that Lennie is the child out of the two men, as you can tell how he talks and acts around George and throughout the whole book. Being a man Lennie lacks a lot of language, which I think that he never attended a lot of school. Examples “look George, look what I done!” this is immature language. This kind of behaviour makes George the father type figure, so he would be the defender. John Steinbeck relates to Lennie, in the theme of nature, by describing his walk, and some of the things he does in relation to the animals like the way he drinks from the lake as Steinbeck describes him as a horse that puts its whole head into the water and slurps. This links in to the theme of natures, because of the use of animal descriptions that Steinbeck uses throughout the book, which is very important to this novel because in the beginning of the book, Nature was introduced straight away.
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Steinbeck’s describes the surroundings in such detail, that he uses a whole page to describe the forest (which is in the beginning of the book) which gives the readers a good imaginative view of what Steinbeck is writing. George and Lennie have an abnormal relationship. They are two friends, one needs the other more .George often gets very frustrated towards Lennie, which also shows that George cares. George loves Lennie very much and will always be a friend to him and so does Lennie. Lennie could not live without him because George does everything for him. Between George and Lennie, George is the one that is mainly in control, he cooks, finds them jobs finds them a place to sleep and because of this, they always travel together, where one goes, the other one follows like a duck and her ducklings.
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George travels with Lennie because Lennie would not be able to survive on his own. These two men share the same dreams but George knows in reality, it is not going to happen. Later on in the story Candy has now been introduced to the book as the old swapper. He is tall, stooped shoulders and has white whiskers. When you first see him, he is very friendly, although he is a little weary of newcomers. His only friend is his dog that he has had since he was a little boy which symbolises that he is very lonely which refers to the theme of loneliness. When he gets to know people, he begins to trust them; he opens up and strikes a conversation with his new friends just as he did with Lennie. A little further on in the story as they become very close together and even share each others dream. In the future he looses both his dog and Lennie and can’t really prevent Lennie’s death but tries to prevent his dog’s death, but this fails.
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This shatters Candy’s dreams because he cannot share his dream with his long companion. In Chapter 4, Crooks is introduced. He is the only coloured (black) person on the ranch and this is where the theme of loneliness comes into play. Crooks is a stable buck. He has a crooked spine, and his eyes lay deep in his head, he is lined with deep black wrinkles and has thin tightened lips. Again relating to the theme of loneliness, Crooks lives by himself in a shed because he is the only Black man, this is why he can afford to leave all of his belongings lying around. He has got his own collection of items like books, shoes and his own copy for the California civil code which indicates that he knows his rights and does not want to be taken advantage of. Eventually Crooks and Lennie are talking about if Lennie could live without George and about crook’s childhood explaining why his father never let him play with other kids and why he is so lonely.
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When he is speaking with Lennie about his childhood, he is speaking like it is still happening or it has recently happened. This is a very similar story to his life at that present time. Being the only coloured man, Crooks is treated as an outcast, as racism was very high in those days which forces him to spend his time reading while the others are playing card games. Crooks become very bitter due to the fact that everyone ill treats him which makes him feel hurt. In the next chapter Curley is introduced to the story. He is the boss’s son, he has a wife, she has dark hair that reaches down to her shoulders, her eyes are quiet close together and has pink small lips with very pale skin. The book does not mention anything about her name which suggests that she does not know who her parents are and does not have an identity.
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She behaves like she is not Curley’s wife and that she is single so she flirts with a lot of the men behind Curly’s back. She would say things like “now that we’re alone what do you want to do”. To try and tempt the man. In doing this, all the men try as hard as they can to stay away from her because they know that she is trouble and know how Curley feels about his wife. Curley’s wife does this because she wants attention, again, related to the theme of loneliness. All the farmers speak really bad of her because of her being flirtatious they also are frightened to talk to her because they fear Curley, and he would think that something is going on; plus he has the authority to get them fired or to shoot them. She married Curly to get some sort of status and to have an identity but she never liked him anyway. When she describes her life on the ranch, she says that her life is boring, that no one pays any attention to her and that she gets treated like a little girl.
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Curley’s wife often dreams about herself becoming an actress. At the end of the novel, her loneliness causes Lennie’s death. Before Lennie’s death, Curley’s wife and Lennie were talking in the barn whilst everyone else was playing games. They began talking to each other about each others dreams. They both talked about each others dreams and what they wanted to do in their life. Lennie has a fascination of stroking things. He was stroking Curley’s wife’s hair, he began to stroke her hair so hard, that he lost control and broke her neck. This has a big impact on George, Lennie and Candy’s relationship, as Curley wants to kill Lennie. As a result to this, George has to kill Lennie before he gets killed by Curly. Loneliness will always end in tragedy and dreams will rarely become reality. True Friendship never ends.
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The morning dew on the yard sparkled in the sunlight as it rose from behind the Gabilian mountains. The town of weed was silent, desolate and all you might hear was the flow of the river which was gushing in between the fresh green willows of the Salinas River. The mist was so fine all you could see was the top of the Gabilian Mountains. On the other side of the Salinas River slight dew glowed on the turf, of which there were branches overhanging the green murky swimming pool.
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On the sandy bank there lay underneath the trees of which had leaves that were fragile from the sunshine. They would make a scooting noise when the leaves are strolled over. Bunnies leap and bound out from their warrens, complete of energy from their sleep, going to rest on the golden sand. As the morning ended up being brighter and more alive the wildlife pertained to emerged from the dark to begin a fresh new day.
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Whilst George was getting the work cards Lennie was sitting down waiting for him. Lennie started to get bored, so his eyes started to wonder the soundings around him. In the corner of his eye he saw something with looked soft, red dress. It was a young girl with her father. She had rosy cheeks and a friendly smile, and luscious red dress. Lennie thought about what George had said for a second, then looked over at the young girl as she walked and sat next to him.
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Lennie then decided despite what George had told him, to talk to her and say hello. Lennie took at her and saw red dress and could not bear touching it. The dress looked so velvety and so soft. As he touched the dress he startled her, and so she screamed, but he couldn’t let go because it was so silky but the harder he clenched his fists the more he pulled it and the angrier Lennie got, as she tried to get away. As the girl was screaming so loud the father heard and came out but before he had chance to see Lennie, Lennie ran off.
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One of the main aspects in John Steinbecks ‘Of Mice and Men’ is inevitability. Of Mice and Men is the story that two migrant workers follow, in order to achieve their dream. The main features in the novel are: The slow but sure shattering of the dream, and how it keeps going wrong due to one of Steinbeck’s character’s constant mistakes. Also the death of Curley’s wife, who, although was unimportant to the men on the ranch, had become an imperative yet inevitable event in the novel.
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The stable buck on the ranch, known as Crooks, doesn’t believe that George and Lennie will ever obtain their dream. He says that all migrant workers have the same dream, and it doesn’t works out for any of them. Page.79-80 “You guy are just kiddin’ yourself. You’ll talk about it a hell of a lot but you won’t get no land. Seems like ever’ guy got land in his head, they never get none in their hand”
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Lennie likes to pet soft things, although doesn’t realise his own strength, he gets scared and panics easily. At the beginning of the novel Lennie kills a mouse by petting it to hard, he does this by mistake, as he doesn’t mean to. Furthermore, when George and Lennie were in Weed, Lennie saw a young girl wearing a dress made from a nice material, and because Lennie liked to pet soft things, he went up to the girl and touched her dress, which led to her screaming, Lennie panicking and kept hold on to the dress.
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This is an example of how Lennie has no control of his strength, and his emotions. With Lennie’s habit of petting things and hurting them, foreshadows Curley’s wife’s death. As soon as Lennie starts to talk about how he likes to pet soft things the atmosphere builds up. Lennie does not understand sex therefore does not understand that Curleys wife is ‘flirting’. Soon he is petting her hair, which is another soft thing to pet. Again Lennie panics as she constantly asks him to stop and panics herself. Lennie puts her hand over her mouth to stop her screaming and subsequently she is dead. These events tell us that Lennie inevitably would keep on killing.
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When he is away from George for the littlest time he gets himself in the trouble as he killed the puppy and Curley’s wife when George was only a short distance away from him. He has omence strength but doesn’t know this and if a normal man did what he did to Curley it would not of broken his hand but his strength crushed his had within minutes without even knowing he had hurt him that bad, he was only trying to stop Curley from punching him because George told him to fight back he grabbed Curleys hand and couldn’t let go because he panicked, this also happened in Weed when Lennie could not let go of the lady dress because he panicked when she screamed. Lennies child-like personality and his behaviour always get him into trouble which he cannot get out of and this causes him to kill another human being.
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The character George is described as a small, quick man with well defined features. He dreams of one day saving enough money to buy his own place and being his own boss, although many men in the depression dreamed of this. George is not a strong man physically, but what he lacks physically he makes up for mentally. “The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features. Every part of him was defined: small strong hands, slender arms, a thin and bony nose.
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Lennie, however, is physically “Strong as a bull”, according to George, but he is mentally as weak, as George is physically. “Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. His arms did not swing at his sides, but hung loosely and only moved because the heavy hands were pendula.” The above description also suggests that George is the leader. “Behind him walked his opposite…” Together they travel from ranch to ranch looking for work. Searching for their chance to make their dream a reality.
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They are the perfect couple, without one another they would have no chance of success. For instance, there is George, who is reasonably bright and good at getting jobs and then there is Lennie, moronic, asinine but nevertheless a very good worker. They stick together through thick and thin and both use each other’s strong points to help them complete tasks. “I got you George and you got me.” Lennie is very forgetful; this gets him in a lot of trouble with George. George also has to look after Lennie as he has a mind of a child.
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During the first chapter of the story George treats Lennie in a critical way. In particular, George swears a lot at Lennie. For Example, George tells Lennie that he has no commonsense, although not literally. “You’d drink out of a gutter if you was thirsty.” George also calls Lennie a “crazy bastard” on a number of occasions. Lennie forgot where they were going and George says, “…I gotta tell you again, do I? Jesus Christ, you’re a crazy bastard!” This shows George’s frustration with having to look after Lennie all the time. Lennie then goes onto say he can remember the rabbits, as he likes furry creatures. George replies “The hell with the rabbits. That’s all you ever can remember is them rabbits.”
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George asks Lennie if he can remember them receiving their work cars and bus tickets, however, Lennie thinks he has lost his and tells George, “George…I ain’t got mine. I musta lost it.” George responds by saying, “You never had none, you crazy bastard. I got both of ’em here. Think I’d let you carry your own work card?” George once again swears at Lennie for not remembering. George is acting like a parent towards Lennie, as Lennie needs to be looked after. As a result of George asking Lennie about the work card he finds out that Lennie has been secretly keeping a mouse, George is furious and throws it away. He does not realize the satisfaction it gives Lennie just by petting a something furry like a mouse. George again asks Lennie where they are going to see if he has remembered. But when Lennie says, “I forgot again” George for another time says, “Jesus Christ”.
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George really treats Lennie spitefully, when running through what they are going to do at the interview George tells Lennie “…You jus’ stand there and don’t say nothing. If he finds out what a crazy bastard you are, we won’t get no job, but if he sees ya work before he hears ya talk, we’re set. Ya got that?” George again puts Lennie down. Although Lennie is a little slow, George does not treat him with any respect, even though he can not live without him. When Lennie finally remembers what to say when he sees the boss of the ranch, George congratulates him by saying, “Good boy.” This relates back to the parent role George has over Lennie.
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One good quote that shows Lennie thinking like a child is when George says they will heat the beans up and have supper. Lennie replies, “I like beans with ketchup.” George replies to this shouting at him to go and fetch some wood for the fire. “Well, we ain’t got no ketchup. You go get wood. An’ don’t you fool around. It’ll be dark before long.” The “An’ don’t you fool around…” section of the quote is very ironic because when Lennie goes off to search for the firewood George hears a splash down the river in the direction Lennie had taken. When Lennie returns he has only one piece of firewood so George instantaneously knows that Lennie has found another mouse, “Gi’me that mouse.” This again associates Lennie with being a child as he has been distracted from what he originally set out to do.
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“Give you what, George?” George outstretched his hand demanding that Lennie gives him the mouse. Steinbeck describes Lennie “…like a terrier who doesn’t want to bring a ball to its master…” This again is ironic because Steinbeck has used a small, snappy dog to describe Lennie but Lennie is not like that. George then gets angry and snaps his fingers, “George snapped his fingers sharply, and at the sound Lennie laid the mouse in his hand.” This quote links back to George being the master and Lennie the animal.
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George through the mouse into the darkening brush and called out to Lennie, “You crazy fool. Don’t you think I could see your feet was wet where you went acrost the river to get it?” as a result of George telling Lennie off and calling him names Lennie started crying. George says, “Blubberin’ like a baby! Jesus Christ! A big guy like you.” Again Lennie is acting like a young child, sobbing due to George not letting him keep the mouse. George tells Lennie that if he finds a fresh mouse he will let him keep it for a bit. “You get another mouse that’s fresh and I’ll let you keep it a little while.” George’s conscience is making him feel guilty for being so nasty towards Lennie. Once again George is being linked with the parent role.
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“I wish’t we’d get the rabbits pretty soon, George…” Lennie keeps accidentally killing all the mice he manages to find because he is unaware of his strength and power. So he asks George if he can get some rabbits. He is abscessed with furry animals. George answers his question by saying, “The hell with the rabbits. An’ you ain’t to be trusted with no live mice.” Now George is saying Lennie can not have any mice, despite him informing Lennie earlier that he would allow him to have a mouse only if it were fresh. George succeeds in starting up the fire and gets the beans out of his bindle. Lennie says to George, “I like ’em with ketchup.” Lennie is now testing George’s patients, George replies “Well, we ain’t got any”, “Whatever we ain’t got, that’s what you want. God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy.
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I could go get a job an’ work, an’ no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want. Why, I could stay in a cat-house all night. I could eat any place I want, hotel or any place, and order any damn thing I could think of. An’ I could do all that every month. Get a gallon of whisky, or set in a pool-room and play cars or shoot pool.” George says this when he is exceptionally angry and not just at Lennie. He is angry at the way his life is, he feels restricted by Lennie.
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He carries on “An’ whatta I got?” “I got you! You can’t keep a job and you lose me ever’ job I get. Jus’ keep me shovin’ all over the country all the time. An’ that ain’t the worst. You get in trouble. You do bad things and I got to get you out.” “You crazy son-of-a-bitch. You keep me in hot water all the time.” George is taking his lack of fulfillment out on Lennie because looking after him makes him feel confined. Following another telling off by George, Lennie feels guilty that he is holding George back from doing all these pleasing things. So he says, “I was only foolin, George. I don’t want no ketchup. I wouldn’t eat no ketchup if it was right here beside me.”
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George reminds Lennie that he would have such a great time without him. “When I think of the swell time I could have without you, I go nuts. I never get no peace.” Lennie is to some extent aware of his good emotions and he is very sensitive. He uses these to try and make George feel guilty and have sympathy for what he has said to him. Lennie says to George “George, you want I should go away and leave you alone?” George tells Lennie that he was only joking and he does not want him to go anywhere. “No-look! I was jus’ foolin’, Lennie. Cause I want you to stay with me. Trouble with mice is you always kill ’em.” “Tell you what I’ll do, Lennie. First chance I get I’ll give you a pup…” George is now feeling guilty about the things he had said and tells Lennie he will get him a pup. Lennie is taking advantage of George feeling guilt-ridden. George is annoyed that Lennie has taken advantage of him and tells him to “…go to hell”
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When George and Lennie finally arrive at the ranch they meet numerous new characters. For instance one of the most important characters is Slim. Slim is the “prince of the ranch”, the “jerkline skinner”, wise and humane. There is Candy, who is an old and pathetic swamper. Crooks, the black stable buck. He is intelligent and reads a lot. There is also Curley, the boss’s son. He is aggressive and dangerous. He has “ants In his pants” Curley tries to act big and tough because he knows that he can’t be “canned” since he is the son of the boss. Curley’s wife hates him. She is a tart, and behaves like one. She gives everyone the “eye” and gives the excuse she is looking for Curley. Carlson is another character. Last but not least there is Whit. He enjoys reading pulp magazines and playing cards in the bunkhouse. All the men on the ranch except George and Lennie seem to be lonely.
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During their interview with the boss, George explains the reasons they left their previous job in Weed and almost succeeding to keep Lennie’s mouth shut. The boss is suspicious of George and calls him a “wise guy”. He suspects George is trying to put one over him. “…What you trying to put over?” He agrees to give them a job, he says “All right. But don’t try to put nothing over, ’cause you can’t get away with nothing. I seen wise guys before…”
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George tells the boss that the only reason he is travelling with Lennie is because they are cousins and he promised Lennie’s “old lady” he would take care of him. As Lennie got kicked in the head by a horse when he was a youngster, which as a result, made him a little dumb. However, George tells Slim that the reason he travels around with Lennie is because they look out for each other “We kinda look after each other.” George also says that Lennie is a magnificent worker and that he is a surprisingly nice person, although he does say Lennie is not bright. George says he has known Lennie for ages and that he enjoys travelling with someone you know.
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He was born in 1759 and died in 1796, which made him only 37. In the story ‘To A Mouse’ by the Scottish poet, Robert Burns, was about how a mouse built a little but grand house of twigs and leaves for the winter, as the days got closer for the mouse to live in its newly made house, it was destroyed described as a great big machine. The quote tells us that, the best plans that mice and men have can go wrong and leave s with nothing but grief and pain.
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The last line of the quote means ‘often go wrong’ the grief and pain the mouse feels by its house being destroyed and leaving him in the cold, this pity was pushed on to George and Lennie about there dream going wrong by Steinbeck. As George and Lennie have more or less the same pain and grief that the little mouse had, so close to own their own little piece of land, but it all goes wrong.
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At the same time of Steinbeck, everyone is thinking about their own land, and how to retire and live in their own homes with their land, The American Dream. But things don’t go how they planned for them to, and The Great Wall Street Crash occurred on October 4th 1929, this was when the people had gone bankrupt and everyone’s life savings were wiped away, many peoples dreams were shattered to pieces right in front of them. America went in to shock. Jobs were lost which caused even more problems, soon after The Great Wall Street Crash people started to migrate in to the countryside of California for jobs and a second chance to build back what they had lost.
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A bit later in the 1930’s, The Dust Ball also occurred in Texas, this was a large amount of dust was lifted off the ground and placed on another part of the land, ruining all soil causing problems once again for people, especially farmers with poor soil, meant no crops. This got so bad that people’s homes were covered in thick layers of soil, dust and sand, farmers were blamed due to poor farming, and bad weather was also to blame. Once again families had to leave, again to California, but California already had enough employees and no space or people to live as people were living in shanties, homes made out of hay and other things.
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In ‘Of Mice And Men’, the men working on the ranch do not have anybody, they travel on their own and have no loved ones with them, neither do they have any family with them. In the novel the workers from the ranch once they are paid, don’t save their money, but they spend their fifty dollars on prostitutes in a whorehouse, except for George and Lennie. By the men going out every week and spend a night with a prostitute this shows that these men are lonely, and do not have anything else to do.
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George and Lennies dream was to have their own land, and their own little farm, The American Dream. George at times can be a very serious person he is always careful to who he speaks to and is very caring to Lennie. Compared to Lennie he is a small man but he still manages to push Lennie around, whereas Lennie is always thinking happy thoughts except when George threatens him, that if he continues to do wrong things, he will not be able to tend the rabbits. When Candy the swapper over hears George telling Lennie what it is going to be like when they accomplish their dream, and get their home, he wants to join in with them, as like everybody else he also has a dream, The American Dream. George thinks about this and realises with Candy’s money and help they could get the house much quicker. Soon after George, Lennie and Candy all agree that they will get the house in about a month’s time.
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But things go wrong and George has to kill Lennie for his own and Lennies good. This is were we can refer back to ‘To A Mouse’ as the mouse plans how he will live in the winter in its nice, warm cosy house, but something goes wrong and a machine tears it up. In this case Lennie is the something that goes wrong and George is the machine, as Lennie kills Curly’s Wife by accident and Lennie and George have to go on the run, but when George finds Lennie he kills him, even though George and Lennie had been very good and close friends he still killed him but not for him being bad, but for his own good to stop him doing something even worse.