on him. “You know what I could do?” Crooks seemed to grow smaller, and he pressed himself against the wall. “Yes, ma’m”. “Well you keep your place then, Nigger. I could get you strung upon a tree so easy it ain’t even funny”. (Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men 80-81). This quote shows the power that Curley’s wife has over Crook by influencing his behavior and having the authority to outright Crooks behavior from his social structure. In this case, social power is expanding from physical status. Material
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Persuasive I think that George should have killed Lennie because it was the right thing to do. Lennie was getting out of hand so someone had to put a stop to it. Curly was going to kill Lennie anyway and Lennie would have known it was coming, but with George killing Lennie and halving Lennie think about the new place and tending rabbits Lennie never saw it coming. It was better this way because Lennie wouldn’t have seen it coming and George would not have been sad that Lennie was dead. Although
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John Steinbeck’s 1937 novel Of Mice and Men is a tale of two migrant workers in the Great Depression, who despite being complete contrasts of one and other, work together to survive the difficult lifestyle. George, the vastly more intelligent of the two, is a warden to Lennie, the colossal working machine who suffers from a mental condition. Steinbeck demonstrates the crippling loneliness the people of the ranch suffer from through his impeccable style. Steinbeck reveals via meticulous dialogue
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Lowell Cooke is put in jail by performing an “attack on SeaWorld” (Fowler 305). By remaining silent “Lowell has decided to be tried as an animal” (305) so that his purpose for stopping animal abuse would still have some effect. By Lowell remaining silent in jail he is showing how he is still fighting the fight of animal abuse. If they don’t get to have a say, then neither does he. Lowell is the fighter for Fern in the book, he had tried for ten years to free her (227), because she was his sister
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In the novel, Of mice and men, many characters show their reluctance to help those in need. "When his aunt Clara died, Lennie just came along with me out workin'. Got kinda used to each other after a while (Steinbeck, 40)." This quote suggests how George has sympathy for Lennie
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In the novel, Of Mice and Men, author John Steinbeck portrays society's harsh judgements of a person’s mental or physical disabilities, identifying them as outcasts. Steinbeck addresses this idea through his use of symbolism. Candy’s old dog that has “pale, blind, old eyes” and “struggl[es]ed lamely” to walk symbolizes Candy because “‘I [he] lost my [his] hand right here on this ranch,’” showing both Candy and his dog have lost their usefulness for the ranch and can no longer provide much service
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Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, we are able to get an idea of what it is like being friends and working with the mentally ill. This exact situation happens in the novella Of Mice and Men we have two main characters George and Lennie, George is known as the brains of all of the operations although he is small, he is smart. Our second main character is Lennie he is known to be really big, but not as smart as George and can be described as being mentally ill. In Of Mice and Men the three most important
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manly sport and they are not fit out for it. Woman were not able to vote or work. They were expected to stay home all day and do chores. John Steinbeck the author of, "Of Mice and Men," uses Curley's wife as a representation of sexism. Steinbeck shows many examples of Curley's Wife being treated unfairly and the reasons the men on the farm thought about her were wrong. When George and Lennie reached the farm they were introduced to everyone but Curley, Curley's Wife and Crooks. Curley's Wife was introduced
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18 percent of Americans have some type of a mental disability. The book Of Mice and Men is about Lennie and George, Lennie has mental disabilities and throughout the book George takes it upon himself to take care of Lennie. There are many different types and effects of mental disabilities. Lennie shows that he has mental disabilities throughout the book by, not communicating at his age level, not understanding consequences of a situation and not behaving appropriately. One thing that
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Obstacles in the way of The American Dream In the book Of Mice and Men the author, Steinbeck, is trying to portray the obstacles people go through to obtain their dream. The American dream is a dream many people in the early thirties wanted to acquire due to the Great Depression and the crash of the stock market. But many times the plans of individuals go wrong as shown in the poem Steinbeck alludes to written by Roberts Bruns. Barriers the characters encounter such as Lennie, who faces a lack
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