Boo writes, “What you don't want is always going to be with you. What you want is never going to be with you. Where you don't want to go, you have to go. And the moment you think you're going to live more, you're going to die.” This quote embodies how harsh it is living in the slum of Annawadi. Some of the slums residents lack any type of shelter and are forced to sleep outside, rats commonly bite people while they try to sleep, and barely a handful of the 3,000 residents of the slum are lucky enough to have full time employment.
By giving good descriptions Steinbeck is able to make the reader feel sympathy for Crooks , Lennie, Candy and as they have to deal with prejudice. Crooks have to live in the stables by himself because he is a “nigger” and therefore not allowed to enjoy some qualities of life. Lennie is mentally slow so people treat him bad. When George and Lennie goes to the farm to get the job George has to cover for him because if the boss knows that he is mentally slow then they would not get a job. Candy has to deal with prejudice because he is old and he only has one hand.
When they finally are able to move back into Angela’s hometown of Limerick they live in a house that is not much better than what they left in the United States. In fact, this house is considerably worse than their home in New York. They have to share a lavatory, which is located right in front of their house and leaves a nasty odor and sometimes overflows, with their neighbors. Being in Limerick, which is a part of southern Ireland, makes finding a job even more difficult because the southern Irish hate those from the North like Frank’s father. Not only does this make finding a job next to impossible it also gets him a great deal of disrespect from the community, especially from Angela’s sister and mother.
His friends are the very lowest class of the society. They are portrayed as street bums, criminals, perverts, and other societal outcasts. Some of his friends most likely still live in Knoxville apparently. Suttree
2.Loneliness is a part of life on the ranch "Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothin to look ahead to.
The bunkhouse is where most of the conversations happen. Loneliness is a key theme which occurs inside the bunkhouse because this is where Carlson bullies candy into allowing him shoot his ageing, smelly, crippled dog. Candy is dependent on his dog as the dog has been with him for a long time but also there are similarities between candy and the dog they can be both labelled as useless because candy lost his hand whilst he was working on the ranch so there aren’t much work for him to do, the reason he still is on the ranch is so that he could claim his compensation that he deserves, the dog is also useless because his old and tired and wouldn’t be able to herd the sheep as before. So when Carlson does shoot the poor dog candy feels alone with no one to be there with him. Dreams is also linked in with the bunkhouse because this is where George and Lennie discuss their dream ‘of living on the fat of the land’ ‘ Lennie tending the rabbits’ but candy over hears their conversation and wants to be part of their dream.
The formal definition of a puppy mill is a large scale breeding operation that produces a large amount of puppies for profit. What this definition is missing is that puppy mills are inhumane in their treatment of breeding dogs and puppies. Many are filthy, they are run by people who have no idea about or concern for the genetic implications of breeding or about what dogs require in terms of basic health care and socialization. Many are simply hellholes in which the breeding dogs are kept in the most deplorable conditions. Dogs confined in small wire cages for their entire lives, fed inadequately, kept in unheated buildings, and denied basic veterinary care.
By their neighbors and friends, by people they worked with! The Jews had a hard time living in the Ghettos. They had rights taken, rights they had once earned as a citizen. The Germans not only took their rights but their citizenship as well. The Germans wanted the Jews to feel ”de-humanized” like dogs, they even put up signs on restaurants and that said “No Dogs or Jews allowed”.
The two themes that I will be writing about are the racial and poverty issues before and after Katrina. Poverty before Katrina in the state of Louisiana was still bad. Louisiana ranks second worst in our country in poverty. Once Katrina hit it just got worse. In the article written by Bob Faw from NBC News he states that many didn’t have any type of insurance, many could not leave the area because they were dependent on government checks, and many couldn’t even afford the basic transportation.
The youngest pig was named Piglet; this little pig was always wanting to be just like his brothers and wanting to do everything with them. The Porkchops were the main gang in the Bronx of New York; the only other opposing gang was the BBW or the Big Bad Wolves. This gang had only two brothers, but that was all they needed to be ruthless. They would vandalize buildings and honk