Of Mice and Men is really about Lennie and George’s journey and relationship with each other, and how they really need each other in their lives. Lennie is very dependent on George. George is one of his only friends and a very important person in his life. George guides Lennie through his life like a father would to his son. The first thought when Lennie is doing something wrong or bad is George because he knows that George wouldn’t want him to being in it.
George won’t let Lennie “go down alone” because he cares about his friend so much and knows he doesn’t deserve that. George also is protective over Lennie because he “used to play jokes” on Lennie all the time. He knows that even though it is wrong, doesn’t mean someone else won’t do it. George thinks very highly of him and Lennies relationship and won’t let anyone mess with
He mentions “I kept hearing voices in me/telling me not to cry, don’t cry, don’t cry/Boys don’t cry”. He would only be hurting himself if he cries. Baca describes how hard it was to hold back his tears, how he
“His gaze caught Arturo and tried to lock him into the masculine intimacy they often shared, an unspoken complicity between father and son”. What kind of relationship does Arturo share with his father? Does that relationship change? This moment takes place at the beginning of Genaro Gonzalez’s short story, “Too Much His Father’s Son.” Arturo is witnessing his parents argue over Arturo’s mother’s (Carmela) suspicion of her husband (Raul) being unfaithful. When Carmela asks Raul if it’s another woman he’s seeing, Raul looks away with no intent of answering, what he thinks to be an absurd question.
Through the use of language Winton depicts how Raelene and her new friend Sherry from ‘The Turning’ copes with the damage in their lives. While Raelene is struggling to cope both emotionally and physically, Sherry is using her and her husband Dan’s failures to change their life and movie to White Point for a new start. Winton’s use of narration shows us the jealousy of Max as a younger boy. When he was slower than the others or picked last for sports Max was in malice. He wanted to be there better man and eventually grows up to be the typical Aussie bloke, who smokes is masculine and goes fishing.
The narrator basked in the control he had over his brother. Because of the embarrassment the narrator felt about his brother, he became determined to make Doodle as normal as possible. Brother teaches Doodle how to walk, a kind act that improved Doodle’s quality of life. However, Brother’s intentions were bad, and he admits his pure selfish objectives when he says "And that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled
After all bullies usually only pick on people they know they can make feel bad to make themselves feel good. Ishmael didn’t feel good about himself, he hated his name he hated hearing the story of how he was born. Ishmael squirmed every time he heard his mother and father tell the story of how he was born and where he got his name from. At school Ishmael spent most of his time, as he says “making himself as small a target as possible” to avoid the bully Barry Bagsley and all the names he called him. Names like Le Spewer, Fishtail Le Sewer and Manure.
But the difference is that the father has been being so well to his son, he brings him to the river and play with him when he has time in "Father and I". But Big Simon is totally opposite, he doesn't allow Small Simon to image something doesn't exist. The common subjects of "Father and I" and "Thus I Refute Beelzy" are such as characters and the attitude of the main characters, these would bring up the main idea of the stories. The characters from these two stories are both a father and a son, they are the main characters. Two of the themes are similar to each other, their families are pretty rich at that time.
My Father Life by Raymond Carver & Homecoming with Turtle by Junot Diaz The stories of both Raymond Carver’s father and Junot Diaz are stories of men who tried their best to do the right things for others yet someone managed to do the wrong things for themselves. Raymond Carver Seniors life was the life of a man and his family who had to experience struggle just to get through life, he always worked as a laborer and had both a drinking problem and an infidelity problem. Raymond Carver Senior after all of this was a noble man who tried his best to help out his family move to better circumstances and support his son’s dream of becoming a writer. The story of Junot Diaz’s trip was the story of a man and his girlfriend on a “doomed for disaster” trip. He starts off having to reveal his infidelity and ends up injured by a turtle shell decoration.
George admits this to Slim when discussing him and Lennie "It's a lot nicer to travel around with a guy you know" "I forgot again" This suggests that Lennie has the mental immaturity of a child, as children always forget and only remember things they find important. "Aw, let me have it George" This suggests this as well as children don't understand that when they've got to follow an order, and they throw tantrums. "Where we going?" This shows that Lennie has the mental immaturity of a child as he depends totally on George for his survival, therefore he just follows George and takes his orders. Steinbeck conveys that George gets easily annoyed with Lennie as he always has to remind him as Lennie always forgets things; "So you forget that awready did you?