live the American Dream, but very few were able to achieve their aspirations. Lennie and George, the main characters of the novel, are two of the many attempting to find their way to success. But they are faced with even more of a burden: Lennie’s simple-mindedness. They move from ranch to ranch to earn money, but are faced with problems that are, more often than not, caused by Lennie. The problems that Lennie and George encounter at the end of the novel are foreshadowed by events that occur throughout
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everlasting bond known as a friendship. Throughout the novel “Of Mice and Men” the character that expresses the genuine friendship between two close people has to be, none other, Lennie. In times of despair it’d seem as if all of life was extinct; however, mankind itself shows how in the most complex situations we are able to acquire something more valuable than what we had before. Lennie highlights the importance of a friendship throughout all our troubled times, reminding us how there is always hope on the
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Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George makes a heartbreaking decision by killing Lennie. George made the wrong choice in killing Lennie because if someone had to kill Lennie, it shouldn’t have been George since he had known him for a long time. George shouldn’t have to carry around the pain of knowing he killed his childhood best friend, he made the wrong choice by killing him because what Lennie did was an accident. One reason why George shouldn’t have killed Lennie is because he was Lennie’s childhood
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the novel has the same connection and special friendship like George and Lennie’s. Of Mice and Men is the story about lonely men who travel from ranch to ranch not really communicating with other ranch hands. Candy, Crooks and Curley’s wife all were lonely and dealt with their loneliness in different ways. Steinbeck makes this such a powerful and revealing moment in the novel as it is the first time Curley is introduced and meets Lennie. Curley's character is described in a very wealthy style, convincing
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poverty during the Depression. There is man that experience the hardship of the depression that is going on in America. These two friends named George and Lennie are migrant farm workers, looking for employment near where Steinbeck grew up in Salinas, California. Lennie is a huge, powerful and mentality incapable, and experiences challenges with himself. George is the intelligence of the duo as they both travel from ranch to ranch. They have their own version of the American Dream. "Someday we're gonna
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Discuss the relationship between George and Lennie. The friendship that George and Lennie share forms the core of the novella, and although Steinbeck idealizes and perhaps exaggerates it, he never questions its sincerity. From Lennie’s perspective, George is the most important person in his life, his guardian and only friend. Every time he does anything that he knows is wrong, his first thought is of George’s disapproval. He doesn’t defend himself from Curley because of George’s stern instruction
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Loneliness and Companionship: In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck makes loneliness and companionship an apparent theme within the novel. Nearly all of the characters, including George, Lennie, Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife, experience some kind of loneliness. Not to mention the town in which this story takes place is called Soledad, which literally means solitude. Although they are married to each other, Curley and his wife are supposed to be together but they never spend any time together
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‘Of Mice and Men’ is written by John Steinbeck, published in 1937. The novel is set in the 1930s during the great depression in California. The two protagonist characters, George and Lennie are farm workers who have a dream of one-day owning their own ranch. They find work in a ranch near Soledad, after escaping from Weed because of George’s incident. They are met by different characters on the farm that all have a dream. To be lonely means to lack friends or companionship and to feel isolated. Most
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The novel opens with two men, George Milton and Lennie Small, walking to a nearby ranch where harvesting jobs are available. George, the smaller man, leads the way and makes the decisions for Lennie, a mentally handicapped giant. They stop at a stream for the evening, deciding to go to the ranch in the morning. Lennie, who loves to pet anything soft, has a dead mouse in his pocket. George takes the mouse away from Lennie and reminds him of the trouble Lennie got into in the last town they were
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developing and maintaining strong relationships as a barrier to the oppressive and hostile world. To do this, Steinbeck utilizes a range of symbolic characters and explores the flawed nature of the American dream. By reinstating the power of relationships, exploring key characters of society through revolving around contextual influence, Steinbeck conveys the value of friendship, importance of dreams and attitudes to freedom The importance of human relationships, dreams and freedom is epitomized
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