Character Description 1: Lennie Small A very important main character we are introduced to in this story is Lennie Small. In my opinion Lennie is the most interesting character in the story because he differs from the other characters in many ways. Lennie Small as well as his companion George Milton are migrant workers who travel around the country working on ranches. They hope that one day they will pursue the dream they share of owning their own land or as Lennie says “living off the fatta’ the lan”. Lennie is incapable of making decisions by himself and relies and depends on George entirely and also looks to him as sort of a big brother.
Candy Character Analysis Candy is an old ranch worker ("swamper") who has lost one of his hands in a farm accident. Candy and his relationship with his ancient, reeking dog are important in the book as markers for exactly who you don’t want to be. Candy has spent the best years of his life working on someone else’s ranch, only to lose his hand and have little money. Given these circumstances, Candy’s dog parallels Candy’s plight. Though the pet was once a great sheepherder, it was put out to pasture once it stopped being productive.
George tells Lennie ‘You know all of it’, which shows the huge importance of their dream, that even forgetful Lennie has memorised it - they use their dreams as an escape from the harsh reality of life on the ranch. Their dream is one shared by thousands of other itinerant ranch-hands, as we know from Crooks’ mention of seeing ‘too many guys with land in their head’. It is infectious in this society, so Candy and even the cynical Crooks are quickly drawn in, showing the extent of their desperation to escape their current lifestyle. The word ‘dream’ is never mentioned in the novel. This is because, to the characters, they are not dreams at all, but are in fact achievable plans which they feel capable of reaching which is what makes them such powerful antidotes to their difficult lives.
In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, each character has a dream in which they want to reach. They want to live this dream in a better place. The characters George, Crooks, and Curley’s wife all have their own goals to getaway from the life they live now. George, the main character, has a simple dream to own a ranch. He wants to own this ranch because he can make money doing what he loves, instead of traveling around California looking for a paying job.
He tells Lennie the story of their dream. Both of them want to own a ranch, raise animals, and keep a
Chen Da wouldn’t be able to achieve anything if his family just give up on him, and think he will be a farmer for rest of his life. The reason that made Chen Da success is his guilt towards his family, because they believe in him. His family never gave up on him; instead they kept on encouraging him to do better. Eventually, Chen Da became clear of what he has to do to pay his family back, and that’s the power of family. Chen Da’s family gave him power to become what he is
Review of ‘the work’ My interpretation of this poem is about a dreaming worker, someone who has to put lots effort to keep the bread on the table and the gas bills paid. He (for the purpose of this review) wants to travel the world and discover ‘canyons, deserts river-plains and valleys’ but he can’t as he must stay and support a family; but his hopes won’t die because they keep him going though his hard day-to-day errands. I assume this because even in the first words he writes ‘my heart’ this is a strong metaphor. It is the image of the spirit, mind, hopes and dreams that make us experience how strongly he longs to go to his ‘unmapped continents’. But in the first line ‘a hundred dusty roads’ you can sense the loneliness of
In the novella Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, there are many characters who feel both lonely and hopeless, but are still in search of a light. He or she has a chance to fight and win their biggest dreams, so there should be no reason to back down from a huge purpose to have hope and happiness. During the Great Depression, men and women have been moving everywhere in a search of a single hope that can have a meaning in his or her life. People have been through a lot
Jack Wilkins October 8th, 2013 3rd Period Jack Wilkins October 8th, 2013 3rd Period John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men tells the tragic tale of George and Lennie, two companions forced to drift from job to job in order to make a living. Arriving at a new farm full of characters embodying loneliness, the pair dreams of escape from the vicious cycle of isolation that accompanies life as a migrant worker before they ultimately succumb to Naturalism’s cruel fate themselves. Lennie and George keep each other going, both of them providing the fuel for the other. The two also give hope to the characters around them; their dreams for “defiance of the cycle” inspires others to attempt escape from the chains of Naturalism themselves. But, even as the relationship of George and Lennie is beautiful and rare, it is also heartbreaking, for the contrast between the pair’s aspirations and the final result of their struggle sharply illustrates the tragedy of Naturalism.
Of mice and men Do you wish a different life, or do you like it the way it is now? In the novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, most of the characters admit to dreaming of a different life. The main two characters in this novel are George and Lennie and they’ve been always dreaming of buying a piece of land, farming it, and growing some animals. When they arrive to the ranch, they work with some of the other characters, under the boss. The other characters have other dreams too, just like George and Lennie.