He is a victim of favoritism, and because of never being the one with the attention he has learned not to be like his bad father and his brother by teaching himself what is right in others eyes, not the eyes of his dad. At the opening of the story, Wes is described as a “boring” sheriff of a small town in Montana. Wes had attended law school but forcefully had to take over his father’s position of county sheriff. It was evident that this was not an ideal position for him. Because of his position rather than his brother’s, he experiences jealousy and is a victim of favoritism.
Steinbeck uses the dream to show George and Lennie’s relationship. The shared dream gives both men something to look forward to but for different reasons, which shows how different the two men are. Lennie looks for ‘tending the rabbits’ and for George it gives him security and control. The dream was what most ranch workers had in the great depression but for Lennie and George it is different because they are sharing it. Lennie is more excited about it than George, ‘come on George, tell me.’ Repeats Lennie, suggesting that although he knows what the dream is, he wants to hear it again to give him some security and hope.
Schneider 1 Natalie K. Schneider Mrs. B English 1 H, P2 2013,1,22 Just another casualty Mercy killing is a very taboo, controversial subject. In the novel of mice and men by john Steinbeck George and Lennie are each other’s only family so they always travel together. George is a small but smart man where Lennie is a big stupid man. They both go to work at a new farm after an incident in their old town caused them to go find work in a new town. Lennie has always caused them trouble but this time it’s serious, he killed the bosses son, Curley’s, wife and Curly is out for blood.
The two men have something that many of the men on ranches in the 1930’s wish they all had; a partner. In saying this, by George bringing a tragic ending to the novel, George is ruining the idealistic friendship that can only be described as
In the novel, Candy used to work on the ranch, however, because of an accident, he lost one of his hands. He dose not have any ability to do heavy works, so he has to work as a swamper on the ranch. Coincidentally, after meeting George and Lennie, he is drawn into George and Lennie's dream, and wants to have a similar dream as George's. In the novel, once George tells their future plan to Lennie, Candy thinks it is wonderful to have a own house and do not have to do what they would rather not do, so he tells George that he can contribute to buying a house with his money in order to make George agree to take him together. As shown above, different people might have different backgrounds, different beliefs or different habits.
They were travelling buddies from the start. They went to Weed jointly, got fired from Weed together and went to the ranch together. The guys on the ranch thought that it’s weird for one guy to stick up for another. Slim even told George, “ain’t many guys travel around together” (35). Two men do not usually stand up for each other and when they came along people stare at them like they are crazy.
English writing The theme of loneliness is best portrayed through characters that had a childhood full of dreams and expectations to live a better life. Steinbeck presents loneliness during the great depression by marginalizing his characters by gender, age and ethnicity. These characters were considered to be at the bottom of ranch hierarchy because they were useless during the 1930’s. The character of Candy is portrayed as lonely by Steinbeck as he is marginalized by age. Candy is believed to be useless as he has lost his hand and is old.
The focal character, Lennie, is inevitably drawn to tragedy, due to his wish for untarnished happiness. The composer of the novella profoundly depicts Lennie’s dream as, ‘livin offa the fatta the lan’. Lennie wishes to have a farm and ‘tend to the rabbits’, with George by his side, however due to obstacles and his untimely fate, he never succeeds with his ambition. When Lennie tells Crooks about his dream, Crooks deflates Lennie's happiness and hope by relaying him with the bitterness of the idea that ‘nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.’
Not surprisingly, the result is not at all desirable and the animals find themselves in fact worse of then before. Orwell is clearly drawing parallels between the events on the farm and the events in Russia after the 1918 revolution. He intends it to be a warning to readers that they should not be easily seduced by socialism. He also strives to outline the faults in communism, and how turning a blind eye and allowing another to control you never works out in your favour. He uses many themes to convey his main points to this allegory, such as corruption, abuse of power and social order.
In this stanza there is lot of excitement the poet does this by describing the atmosphere, using run-on lines, using the word “and” and that everyone has come a long way. The rabbit is shown as a commodity of profit by using loudspeakers, bands and banners. The blade of grass is an unusual place of describing as there is few. Then there is an anticlimax –rabbit has burrowed down. The people are not aware of what’s happening, they should be angry about what has happened to the world not because a rabbit has burrowed down- which is something that he does