Because of his simple mindedness, he does not realise his own strength and power. The animal imagery is used again when Steinbeck shows how Lennie reacted to Georges discovery of the dead mouse.Slowly, like a terrier who doesn't want to bring a ball to its master,Lennie approached, drew back, approached again. George snapped his fingers sharply, and at the sound Lennie laid the mouse in his hand’ The animal imagery is used again by George when he describes Lennie on their arrival at the ranch as ‘As strong as a bull’ . This image conveys the idea that lennie would be a useful person to have on the ranch as his strength was important to do the job of a ranch hand. .These same hands Lennie
English Essay Explore the way that John Steinbeck presents the relationship between Lennie and George in the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’? ‘Of mice and men’ takes place during America’s great depression in the 1930s. John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California and lived through the time of the great depression. He spent some time himself working on a ranch so he understood what life on a ranch was like. In this essay I will be exploring the ways John Steinbeck presents the relationship between George and Lennie, two men with very different characteristics, who together make a good team.
Book report outline Fifi Argiropoulou 15/12/10 English 10B * Title: Of mice and men * Author: John Steinbeck * Year of publication: 1937 * Place of publication: New York city * Publisher : modern classics * Summary: Two migrant field workers in California during the Great Depression, George Milton, an intelligent and skeptical man, and Lennie Small, a large size and huge strength but small mental abilities. They are on their way to a ranch near Soledad southeast of Salinas, California to make some money. They hope that one day they will reach their common dream of settling down on their own piece of land. Lennie's part of the dream is just to have soft rabbits on the farm. They are running away from their previous employment in Weed where after Lennie's love of choking soft things resulted in an accusation of attempted rape when he touched a young woman's dress.
The novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck begins with two men, George Milton and Lennie Small, walking to a nearby ranch looking for work. The story is set in California in the grip of the Great Depression, where machinery was beginning to replace ranch hands. Steinbeck shows the common mans journey through the brutal times showing obstacles and pitfalls and varying human handicaps. He shows us the reality that a human world contains jealousy, cruelty, loneliness and shattered dreams. The two main characters are George Milton and Lennie Small.
English 12 “Of Mice and Men” By John Steinbeck # Chapter One Q – 1. Plot summary – one paragraph summarizing the main idea in the first chapter. This chapter starts by first introducing the setting and then leading into the description of the two main characters. George and Lennie are sitting by the Salinas River which is just outside a little Californian town named Soledad. They have found a little place to camp which is tree covered and not that far from the ranch that they are supposed to work at the next day.
Of Mice and Men is a historical fiction novel written in 1937 by John Steinbeck. It follows the story of George and Lennie, two laborers who find work at a ranch in Salinas Valley, California. From the very beginning of the novel, the pair’s differences on their views of responsibility are astounding. George, the brains of the two, takes care of Lennie and acts as his guardian, finding the two of them work and keeping Lennie out of trouble. Lennie, on the other hand, has obvious mental problems and cannot take responsibility for even his own actions, and requires George’s guidance to keep him safe.
Chapter One Of Mice and Men starts out near the Salinas River in the California Valley, George Milton and Lennie Small are following a path to the river. When reaching the river, Lennie leans down and takes huge gulps of water; he is mentally retarded and does not comprehend the dangers of doing so. George has to remind Lennie that it may be dangerous to drink the water, because it might not be safe; Lennie has to ask where they are going, because he doesn’t remember. You discover in this chapter that Lennie likes soft things, because he kept a dead mouse in his pocket to pet at a later time. George and Lennie had to leave their last home in Weed after Lennie grabbed onto a woman’s dress; he wouldn’t let go and was accused of attempting to rape the woman.
Of Mice and Men In the novella Of Mice and Men, many themes are created/portrayed. The story is about 2 friends who travel together working on ranches for a lousy buck. The book is set during the depression of the 1930’s. The story is a tale of hope, courage, loyalty, belonging, acceptance, inspiration and admiration. In the novella one of the main themes is alienation.
29/9/11 Character Analysis- George George is one of the two characters in the first chapter of ‘Of Mice And Men’. The other man (his best friend) is called Lennie. They traversed together from ranch to ranch to find work. They are called migrant workers. This makes sense because the author John Steinbeck writes about social novels dealing with the economic problems of rural labour.
Of Mice and Men- How is the character of Candy important to the novel as a whole? The novella 'Of Mice and Men' was written by John Steinbeck in 1937. It was set at the time of the Great Depression in America, during which there was widespread poverty and long term unemployment.The novella begins with two itinerant workers; George and Lennie traveling to a ranch in hope of work. It is here that they meet many other characters including Candy 'an old swamper'. Through the character of Candy, John Steinbeck takes the readers on journey through which they see the difficulties facing the older members of society at that time.
Discuss how Steinbeck explores the theme of dreams in ‘Of Mice and Men’ – are dreams important? Set in Soledad, California, ‘Of Mice and Men’ explores the harsh reality of the Great Depression and the impact it had on people’s everyday lives. Americans were out of work, breadlines were common day occurrences, and the future looked grim indeed. This gripping novel details the journey, and untimely fate, of two itinerant works that travel from ranch to ranch in search of work in order to make a living. ‘Of Mice and Men’, however, is as much a story about the nature of human dreams and aspirations and the forces that work against them as it is the story of two men.
Critical and commercial success did not come for another six years, when Tortilla Flat was published in 1935; Steinbeck was finally able to support himself entirely with his writing. Steinbeck’s best-known works deal intimately with the plight of desperately poor California wanderers, who, despite the cruelty of their circumstances, often triumph spiritually. Always politically involved, Steinbeck followed Tortilla Flat with three novels about the plight of the California laboring class, beginning with In Dubious Battle in 1936. Of Mice and Men followed in 1937, and The Grapes of Wrathwon the 1940 Pulitzer Prize and became Steinbeck’s most famous novel. Steinbeck sets Of Mice and Men against the backdrop of Depression-era America.
It tells the tragic story of George and Lennie, two displaced Anglo itinerant farm workers in California during the Great Depression (1929-1939). The story is set on a ranch, a few miles from Soledad in the Salinas Valley. In the following essay I will also explain their dreams and show how they plan to fulfil these dreams. Near the end I will clarify what finally happens to their dreams. It is human nature to have dreams, or the hopes one has for the future.
English C/A: Of Mice and Men: Lennie Of Mice and Men is a novella written in 1937 by John Steinbeck, which is set during the Great Depression in California. John Steinbeck, born in 1902, was an activist for equal rights and was inclined towards migrants when he discovered material about them in the 1930’s, which lead him to interview itinerant workers about their livelihood. This continued into a recollection of the poor, dispossessed people that he had grown up with, inspiring him to produce a novella that states the true events, raw opinions of people, and lives of those that had occurred during the Great Depression. He has based the title on the poem,”To A Mouse” by Robert Burns, that expresses the thoughts of a farmer that has accidentally killed a mouse, but the farmer proclaims that the mouse is blessed as it lives in the present and we always worry about the past and future. Guilefully he uses microcosm and macrocosm, which is a literary devise where a smaller scale is explained but it represents a much larger scale in reality, such as a character in Of Mice and Men like Crooks, represents a whole race of people in reality.
Essay topic: Explore the way family relationships are presented in “Of Mice and Men” CA John Steinbeck was born in 1902, in California in Salinas’s valley which would serve as the setting for his novella ‘Of Mice and men’. He went to Stanford University but never graduated. He went to New York in 1925, where he tried for a few years to establish himself as a free-lance writer and where he took odd jobs. He failed to have any of his work published so he returned to California. He was most known for his novel’s ‘East is Eden’ (1952) and ‘the Grape of Wrath’ (1939), which he won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
“Of mice and men” Introduction: The book “of mice and men” was originally written by john Steinbeck in 1937. It is about the lives of a group of men living on the ranch in California, during the great depression. In this essay I am going to focus on candy the old swamper. Candy is a tall, stoop-shouldered old man who cleans the bunk houses and has lived in the ranch almost his whole life. The owner still has him as long he still can swamp or clean the bunk houses.
Andrew LaFave English 112 Final Research Paper Of Mice and Men: Steinbeck’s Underlying Messages In 1937, John Steinbeck published a novel, Of Mice and Men, which reflected the life of migrant workers of his time. The book is a story of two migrant workers, George and Lennie, that dream of someday living on a farm of their own. Steinbeck tells this parable of two men traveling through their lives and maintaining the eternal hope of a better life while having to face the reality of shattered dreams. Steinbeck is a master at using themes to portray this story and to emphasize the messages he wants to get across to the reader. Steinbeck addresses the underlying message of the human condition and the importance of relationships, and uses the characters in the novel to illustrate the hopes and dreams of Americans in the 1930’s.
Of Mice and Men addresses the real hopes and dreams of working class America, during the Great Depression in the 1930’s. The novel is a touching story of an undying dream, betrayal, tragedy and the perpetual friendship between two men. Of Mice and Men, is a story about Lennie Small and George Milton, displaced ranch labourers during the Great Depression in California. These are two very different characters; the novel describes them as opposites. Lennie is very large and burly while George is 'small and quick'.
In the novel, Lennie talks about a dead mouse. ''I could pet it with my thumb while we walked along.'' This shows that how he always wants to pet mice while he is traveling with George even though George doesn't let him to do it. In the novel, Lennie also says that ''Because I got you and you to look after me and you got me to look after you, and that's why.'' I think this quotation highlights the idea of loneliness in the novel because it shows Lennie and George only have one other person they are close to.
GCSE-OF Mice and Men Sample question “George’s voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before.” George and Lennie are camping by the river on the night before their new job at the ranch. They spend the last day of freedom together discussing how one day they’ll be their own boss and live a comfortable, happy lifestyle. This part of the novel starts with Lennie pleading that George will tell him about their dream that they both share. Steinbeck describes George’s voice as rhythmical, this may be indicating that he has told the dream so many times that it’s printed on him as though it’s been memorised.