There seemed to be more hope and compassion among the men. This was surely due partly to how excited and close the three men were to there dream. Just the thought of three ranchers helping each other towards the same goal is unheard of. Today, I asked the guys if I could pitch in on the house with them. To my surprise they were more then happy to except me.
* Assessment Task 4 - Of Mice and Men Essay * Question – Hopes and Dreams help people to survive, even if they can never be realised. Discuss this statement as it is explored by Steinbeck in Of Mice and Men. * Many Americans naively assumed that California was a place where one could start anew and own land. ‘Of Mice and Men’ is a novel that was written, during the Great Depression of the 1930’s. This dream for land and for the happiness and belonging such ownership would provide, was called the American Dream.
The most important fact about Hal is that he is not a genius. In fact, he shows this a little when he claims that if he had one tenth of the accomplishments Robert had, he could work in any math department in the country. He may enjoy less than a tenth of Robert’s ability, but he suffers nothing of his curse. He shows us this while he is with his rock band in the after-hours of the night. Hal and his friends go out for drinks and get laid, showing basic forms of sanity among most people.
After working all day in the fields candy’s (another worker) dog who is old and smells, walks into the room making everyone else angry this shows foreshadow because putting the dog down represents the responsibility of having to care for something and with candy it is his dog where he has to have its best interests in heart. Then later in the passage candy says to George how he should have shot his dog instead of letting Carlson does it. This foreshadows the end of the book where George ends up having to shoot lennie to keep him from suffering just like candy and his dog where both parties just wanted their friend to have a happy ending to their life. This foreshadowing contributes to the book in the long run because at that point in the book you know what George is going to have to do at the end of the book and this shows how the character is going to have to change before the end because from this text you know that something is going to happen between George and lennie and this foreshadowing crates suspense because you know it’s going to happen it’s just you don’t know when causing the reader to always be on the guard for when it does creating a dark and suspenseful atmosphere for the remainder of the
Their deaths and Lennie’s eventual death result in the unfulfillment of the dream, leaving everyone lonely and without purpose. Dogs, both old and young, are a comfort to those with otherwise very lonely lives. Candy, the ranch worker, had grown attached to his old sheepdog, which he had had raised from when it was a puppy. His fellow ranch workers despised the dog, as it was useless and smelled bad, and eventually convinced Candy to have it shot. The dog, while of no working value, was a faithful companion to Candy.
Urging on relentlessly, Carlson explained that the dog was suffering and no good to itself and that Candy could take one of Slim’s dog’s puppies. Filled with hope, Candy tells him that he doesn’t have a gun, but is sadly proven wrong. Looking helplessly from face to face, Candy tried to get someone to back him up, but no one did. Finally accepting defeat, Candy allows Carlson to take his dog from him. Feeling dejected, Candy lay rigidly on his bed staring at the ceiling silently as Carlson leaves to go shoot his precious dog.
What does it take to make such a decision, and how would one ever truly know if he or she justified in doing so? These are the questions faced by George Milton at the end of John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men. After a seemingly endless string of mishaps and misadventures, George’s best friend, a mentally challenged giant by named Lennie Small, finally makes the innocent but fatal mistake of killing a woman at the ranch where they work. As the men of the ranch frantically try to bring Lennie to justice, probably by killing him in cold blood, George must decide whether to try to escape with Lennie, turn him over to the men or the law, or end Lennie’s life quickly and peacefully himself. In the end, George makes the right decision in killing Lennie because __________________, ____________________, and ____________________.
The next night, when most of the men head to the local whorehouse. Lennie is left with Crooks, the Negro stable buck, and Candy. Curley's wife came to the barn saying that she was looking for Curley, but she actually came to talk to the men and find some company and refuse to leave until the other men come home. She notices the cuts on Lennie's face and suspects that he, and not a chunk of machinery like Curley told her, is responsible for hurting her husband. The successive day, Lennie accidentally kills his puppy in the barn, and Curley's wife came to see Lennie because she knew she could get company from Lennie while the others were outside.
(1951) Non-Cooperative Games, Annals of Mathematics. Hence the name, pure strategy Nash equilibrium. Strategies that are best replies to each other are in Nash Equilibrium. No player would want to change strategy after finding what the other player did. A pure strategy Nash Equilibrium is where a player’s strategy is pure (the player always chooses the same strategic action out of all the choices available to him in every round).
Whatta they think I am, anyways?” (Page 43). She’s not allowed to talk to anyone because everybody thinks she’s a tart. Everyone thought she was bad, and that’s how she was discriminated. Candy is discriminated against by his age. He has a very old dog, and the boys at the farm want to shoot it.