Lennie and crooks is the most sympathetic characters in mice and men because he is slow, and not smart with the outside world, also only has one person to understand his disability. And crooks is separated from everyone because he's black, and lives in a barn all by himself. So these are some details that i can provide you about Lennie and Crooks and how they both should have the most sympathetic in the book of mice and men. Lennie is a sympathetic character because he is treated badly because of
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Having dreams and passions for the future is what everyone considers. Unfortunately, dreaming for the future can have a variety of obstacles. John Steinbeck, the author of Of Mice and Men effectively teaches the reader about isolation and broken dreams. Steinbeck uses Lennie, George, Crooks and Curley’s wife to prove the deep feeling of isolation composed from loss of verisimilitude and broken dreams. Isolation not only happens because of human environment, but because of skin color. Isolation for
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their race , skin color, looks and many other and with that , loneliness in this society just keep increasing each and every day, this feeling can affect people’s mind set to the negative way and impact on their decisions. In the book Of Mice and Men , loneliness is shown very often by many of the characters but the ones who most express loneliness in this novel are Lennie, Curley’s wife and Crooks, it affects their dreams and impact their decisions, it affects their dreams because they have nobody
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the state of being alone in solitary isolation.‘“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world”’(13). There are several characters that have to deal with being lonely but Crooks is the most lonely character in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Some individuals, however, disagree and think other characters can be classified as the loneliest. Crooks is the loneliest because he is segregated from everybody else on the ranch, he talks about how lonely he is, and has limited
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whoever encounters her, even if she’s the first one to talk to them. All the men on the ranch know not to talk to her certainly because she’s the wife of the bosses son. There is a quote in the book that proves her statement, “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 nobody?”. That shows that she is not trying to mess around with the men and she only wants someone to talk to her. Second of all there are no other
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when he kills her, he notices he’s “done a real bad thing”. Lennie’s choice to hide her body is essential because if anybody found out that he killed Curley’s wife, the consequence would result in his own death. George prevents more trouble for other men on the farm by killing Lennie because he would have been killed anyways. After the fatal death of Curley’s wife, Lennie’s death and there were only 2 ways: the men’s way or George’s way. George and Lennie’s relationship shows a strong correlation to
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“Curley’s wife moved away from him a little. ‘I think you’re nuts,’ she said” (Steinbeck 90). Lennie Small from Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is known for being different. Steinbeck implies that he has an intellectual disability. Lennie travels with his friend George during the time of the Great Depression, although it makes them more deviate. They share a dream about owning their own land with their own farm. Moreover, Curley’s wife realizes that there is a specific discrepancy between Lennie
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Ray Stannard Baker was born on April 17th, 1870. He graduated from Michigan State University where he studied law and literature. After graduating from Michigan State University he began working for the Chicago record where he remained there for 6 years as an editor and reporter. From there on, Ray was exposed to the poor, homeless streets of the starved residents of Chicago. At first, Ray wasn’t as affected towards the poverty of Chicago because he believed the starved, poor people should stop being
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Dreams Dreaming, it is a part of our human nature. As people we dream about many things such as things we want, love, happiness and many more. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, during the great depression, the characters of the novel dream about having a better life. These dreams inspire them to persevere through their harsh lives, but many unforeseen events cause the destruction of these dreams. The two big dreamers in the novel is the main characters; George and Lennie. They always dreamed
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Thirteen Hundred Rats by T. Coraghessan Boyle is a short story about a widower, who keeps rats as pets. The main character of the book Gerard Loomis has never had any pet but the tragic event in his life, the death of his wife, urges him to have a pet and he chooses comfort in rats. In this story, it is quite symbolic that after the death of his wife, he chooses rats as his pets because the author develops the metaphor that in a way, evokes the comparison between Gerard’s wife, who has just died
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