Both poems use their titles to convey attitudes towards marginalised characters. In the title “Clown Punk”, the writer juxtaposes two contrasting ideas. The punk image was of aggression and intimidation; most punks of the 1970s would not have taken kindly to being called something as ridiculous as a “clown”. Straight away the writer has suggested that the narrator of the poem finds the punk image to be laughable and not intimidating at all. Similarly, the title “Give” suggests an attitude.
Lennie does not know his own strength, reacts to trouble when he is scared Idioms- “old lady” (p.53), “throw a litter” (p.58), “punk” (p.62), “cut off his wind” (p.63) Allusions- Luger, phonograph, fence picket, Golden Gloves Chapter 4- 66. Crooks was alone, living by himself and able to leave his personal possessions lying around 67. Loneliness- people kept their distance from Crooks because he was black 68. Loneliness- Lennie also quite alone in the world- only friend is George and tries to make friends with Crooks 69. Lennie- a genuinely nice person, has nice smile that tempted Crooks to let him in 69.
An example of this is that he thinks Candy’s dog should be shot because it’s old and smelly. He also thinks that Candy could have one of Slim’s puppies instead. However he can’t see that Candy might have an emotional attachment to his dog. For me this suggests that Carlson is insensitive and doesn’t care about anyone other than himself and he believes that he should always get what he wants. Another reason
He’s quite cruel towards Lennie and torments him. He keeps telling Lennie that George might not come back. The feeling given here shows that Crooks wants Lennie to feel just as isolated as he does. Loneliness is also shown when he offers to go and hoe the garden if Lennie and George accomplish their dream. He desires to be involved with other people and he hopes he can be a part of their dream.
He is in an awkward position in this short story. Daisy is a brown girl who is neighbours with Ben. She is eager to play with him, “…Darted across Finchley Row,” but Ben does not treat her the way he should he speaks to her rudely, “… In a muffled voice,” and is racist to her, “…You’re a nigger.” Daisy gets really hurt by the way Ben acts towards her, Ben says this to Daisy because of his mother and what she has taught him. However, Ben starts feeling sorry for her and lets her play with him, his feelings change because he realises he is wrong by treating her like that, his personality shines through. This leads Ben feeling paranoid as he keeps glancing toward his house just in case his mother sees them as his mother does not like Daisy.
It also illustrates the relationship of Lenny and George, and the position of caretaker that George assumes-for example-when Lenny is worried that this will cause Lenny to lose the privilege of caring for the bunnies. George is the caretaker, Lenny the receiver, much like Candy's relationship to the lame dog. In addition to the other very good answers here, I encourage you to think not only of the characters, but of the "groups" which the pair represent, Lennie and Curley. Rene rightly points out that Lennie "doesn't know his own strength." The overarching point here is that none of the "underdogs" know their own strength.
Lennie seems to be very strong, but in reality he is the weakest character in the novel “Of Mice And Men”, because of the lack of his mentality ability and the missing characteristic to think for himself and make his own decisions. The strong characters are attacking the weaker characters in this book, and the Forstner 3 weaker are attacking the weakest. Are good example of this would be when Carlson compels Candy to let him shoot his dog against his will. “I'll put the old devil out of his misery now,” (Steinbeck, 47). Or when crooks teased Lennie “jus' s'pose he don't come back,” (Steinbeck, 72).
An example of Sykes lack of morals is, “If you such a big fool dat you got to have a fit over an earth worm or a string, ah don’t keer how bad ah skeer you” (705). Cleary Sykes does not care if he hurts or scares Delia and continuous to scare Delia with his ruthless actions. Delia also has lack of morals. Delia shows her lack of moral by leaving her husband in the house
(Chpt.3 pg.44) Here Carlson is telling Candy how worthless it is to the ranch and to itself. Candy struggles with this harsh reality, but eventually lets Carlson take the dog outside and shoot him. Candy later regrets letting Carlson do this, and he thinks that he should have been the one to end the dog’s life. George will remember this later on and take it upon himself to end the life of Lennie. Lennie was an obedient and hard worker for many years with George.
He sings his praise of it, “The air is sweet with the scent of his blood” (140). Grendel still does not know why he commits these actions, yet he finds them satisfying to his being. Therefore Grendel is an exemplary choice of an existential character in the novel Grendel, based on the character of the same name. Grendel’s fight with nature only augments his hatred of others, causing a deeper and darker evil to be born. He turns to loneliness as a refuge when no one listens to him, as the goat did and before the humans.