“Of Mice and Men” “Of Mice and Men” is a book that shows in different ways how inhumane man can be. The characters in this story are very racist, prejudice and don’t have high regard for human or animal life. In “Of Mice and Men” some of the characters are found to be racist as they refer to Crooks as a “nigger”. When Lennie is talking to Crooks we find that he longs for another person to talk to but he is not allowed into the bunkhouse. “Because [he’s] black.
Friendship and Human Morality in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men There comes a time in our lives when the harder decisions we have to make are also the moral ones. In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men George is faced with the most dreadful decision on whether or not to end Lennie’s life and chooses the moral solution on behalf of Lennie’s own good and well being. George’s decision in killing Lennie is a true definition of human morality and friendship, because not only does he give up his own happiness for Lennie but gives him a much happier and painless death and freedom from the world Lennie truly couldn’t succeed in, giving off,” A sense not of realism but of reality” as stated in R.W.B Lewis’ article “John Steinbeck the Fitful Daemon” (512). Throughout the novel readers come to learn that Lennie and George have been together for years, George being Lennie’s primary caretaker. He goes about living a life it seems he doesn’t want and goes without little reward for the task he has taken (besides friendship and a friend in Lennie).
Mrs. Freeman, who is referred to and has convinced herself that she is a “good country person”, is corrupted by her obsession and fetish with the incurable sicknesses and illnesses that plague many people in that era. Mrs. Hopewell had a pride of intellect, in that she knew just how to handle Mrs. Freeman’s reaction to the incident that took her daughter’s leg. Mrs. Hopewell is described as having no bad qualities of her own, although she was able to use the bad qualities of others in such a way so that she could advance herself and her daughter. This is a very intellectual, yet dark way to live on her part. Flannery O’Connor presents such an irony of a theme that it can evolve in just one person by itself.
In this part the author shows dramatic irony by showing the grandmother as being disrespectful herself. She thinks that “people did right then” and right after she says, “Oh look at the cute little pickaninny!”(Pg. 404). It clearly shows how the grandmother really was towards other people. The irony in this part was that her time was not as good she really made it seemed.
Chad Staley 2-17-11 Period 4 Of Mice and Men In the story Of Mice and Men there are many ways to view the situation and the people in it. We have George and Lennie, two men who are on the pusuit of happiness. George is smart and takes cares of Lennie, while Lennie is a towering, slow minded man who can't be held responsible for his actions. Some may think he should be held responsible for the trouble he causes, but most tend to think he shouldn't because he can't process and understand the effects of his actions. I believe that Lennie cannot be held responsible for the decisions he makes because he doesn't understand the problems they cause at all.
No matter how great he seems as a boy, you know there has to be something terribly wrong with him to make your mother like him so much. While Buddy looks great on paper, Buddy's interactions with Esther reveal him to be at times dumb, oblivious, and just plain pathetic. Buddy is constantly making Esther feel irrational and ignorant in contrast to his conceited sense of superiority and falsely confidence. When Buddy undresses in front of Esther, and Esther compares him to a "turkey gizzard", it's hard not to feel that Buddy sort of deserves to be ridiculed. The way Buddy talks about Esther I think affects her.
“If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them…” is relatable to a theme regarding loneliness in the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The quote which was quoted by Jodie Picoult outlines a colored character named Crooks from Of Mice and Men whose loneliness has led him into a bitter but sharp personality. Crooks’ reaction to a visit from an innocent while man to his behavior ranging from effects of loneliness after a misunderstanding, shows how isolated Crooks felt and how much it had invaded his character. First of all, Crooks was a colored stable buck with a crooked spine that lived in a
Let me cite the example of the man from “Black Cat” and the man from “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The resemblance in both these cases is the madness of the protagonists which is also shown by the sentence structure; for example “very dreadfully nervous I had been and am” and “Yet, mad am I not” represent the disorder of subject and verb. But “the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or not the loftiest intelligence…” The first point which comes into my mind, reading the stories, is assertion which is a human instinct. All the human beings try to say what they believe. So, the dislike for the “vulture eye” and “the cat” made them assert that they were not insane.
The heroes and villains question is ‘Explore the ways sympathy for and/or dislike of a character is created in the text you have’. This could be an opportunity for bright students to explore less obvious (but still relevant if well supported) interpretations of characters. For example: Curley is a man who lacks the natural power of Slim and can only achieve authority by wearing high boots, aggressive-looking spurs and being antagonistic and violent. He understands the women of the ‘cat-house’ but not the striking young woman he has married, (and who only married him as a way of getting away from her controlling mother). She is dissatisfied with her lot in life, and he is so desperate to be the lover she wants that he wears a glove and
Is it possible that discrimination-hate is only a product of a person's fear of something outside of the norm? Lennie is a gentle giant who is often misjudged in Of Mice and Men. Lennie is mentally handicapped and because of this, the men on the ranch often refer to him as