Back to The Mighty, Kevin and Max realized that they had something in common. They were outcasts and were always being bullied because they were “freaks”, but they were proud. Also, they were both abandoned by their fathers at a young age. When Kevin died because of his illness, Max became very sad, but later on, he wrote his own book and realized that their relationship still exists, because he ended his book drawing a picture of a grave at the bottom of the lake, and on the grave, it said “Here lies King Arthur, Once and Future King”, and that King Arthur story was a symbol of Kevin. That picture was also a symbol of Kevin because at the beginning of the movie, Kevin said, “Every word is part of a picture.
In the beginning of the story Rainsford seems to present himself as a gentlemen but by the end he seems very uncivilized. As an example, “he cowered back,”(13) as a dog would, a human doesn't tend to cower. Rainsford's “impulse was to hurl himself down like a panther,”(12) humans don't usually have the urge to attack other people in such a way. Rainsford's thoughts show the arising animal inside him. “I played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable,”(11) shows Rainsford comparing himself to two different wild animals.
Mice and men “How does John Steinbeck portray Lennie in the novel of and men?” In the first chapter Steinbeck portrays Lennie Small straight away he presents him as a type of animal Steinbeck starts to use physical features this is where he uses metaphors to describe Lennie as having big paws the phase he uses ‘Lennie dabbed his big paws in the water and wiggled’ this portrays Lennie slightly to towards the reader that he’s a big size of nature. The word which Steinbeck uses ‘big paws’ this illustrates that he has an animal type appearance with the word ‘paw’ describing his hands. The way the author uses the phases in the first chapter is using animal metaphorical language to build a picture that he’s a huge type of animal. The author uses another portrayal in the situation when Lennie is drinking out of the lake the author describes him again as an animal ‘drinks beer like a horse out of a lake’ this builds up
Lennie is powerless in a sense that he can't control how he reacts (his fight with Curley) and has to turn to George to know what to do. He is also described in a sort of subhuman way, using animal imagery at the beginning of the novel with "bear paws" etc. The novel has a circular structure, beginning and ending with descriptions of 'paradise', but at the end because Lennie is dead, it shows the brutality of life in the depression that however much you try, dreams can fail and you can end up worse off than when you started to show that there isn't a way of getting out of it. There's plenty to go at, and they are a few ideas to start you off. I hope this helps!
George only had one choice, and that was to take care of Lennie himself. Even though the dream was more achievable now that Lennie was gone, it ment nothing to George. Everything that George ever had in his mind was destroyed with the mistake of leaving Curley's wife and Lennie together. The best laid plans of mice and men often go wrong. In conclusion the reader feels most sympathetic for George because taking care of Lennie caused him many unavoidedable problems, emotional burdens that will haunt him for the rest of his life, and a shattered dream.
Of Mice and Men Analysis The books original working title given by Steinbeck was Something That Happened, but after reading the poem “To a Mouse” by Scottish poet Robert Burns, Steinbeck changed his mind. The poem describes how the narrator accidentally plows through a mouse’s nest, and the sorrow he feels afterwards. In the poem, the narrator reflects over the relationship between man and animal, deeply apologizing on the behalf of mankind for all the damages done to nature. The narrator identifies with the mouse as a fellow mortal, saying that both the thinking men and the unthinking animals will suffer in the end. The difference lies in the fact, that only the presence touches the mouse; man on the other hand, are able to look back in regret, or look to the future and fear.
Animal imagery is used to describe Lennie’s size, he is often compared to a bear to further emphasize his size and strength; his hands are regularly referred to as ‘paws’. Lennie is like an animal, not only appearance-wise, but also, he behaves instinctively instead of rationally. Being lead by your instincts can be dangerous, as Lennie had previously found out, he was thirsty, so he drank; unfortunately for him, what he drank was some stagnant water from a puddle, and got ill. The adjectives and short sentences Steinbeck uses, emphasizes Lennie’s limited knowledge; as Lennie uses sentences such as “Look what I done!”, and he uses an exclamation mark to show how happy Lennie gets over small, simple things. We are also reminded of Lennie’s child-like nature by his devotion to rabbits; the rabbits are an important part of the novel, as the rabbits are the way George keeps Lennie from getting into trouble.
All these events inspired John Steinbeck to write his novella Of Mice and Men. His title was borrowed from Robert Burn’s poem “To a Mouse.” It comes from his second to last lines of the poem “The best laid schemes o’mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley. An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, for promis’d joy!” (Burn 7). In the poem Burn describes how the mouse has uprooted a mouse’s net with his plow (Literary Cavalcade 1) (Allan 1, 2). John Steinbeck’s choice to title his novella Of Mice and Men is reflected through the poem written by Robert Burns “To a Mouse” through animal imagery, the identification of animals with humans, and how both men and animal suffer in the end.
3. Candy and Slim are minor but very different characters. Discuss why Steinbeck has included them in “Of Mice and Men”, both in terms of the role they play in the plot of the story and in what Steinbeck has to say about human nature through them. 4. Discuss, with quotations and close reference, how Steinbeck uses language, both spoken and descriptive, to create a variety of effects in “Of Mice and Men”.
Additionally the phrase “like a bear” and “paws” suggest that Lennie’s physical power is significantly immense that Steinbeck compares him to a bear which is known to have colossus amounts of physical strength; this also reinforces the fact that Lennie’s strength is abnormal and also suggests his strength is unhuman like. George says in the novel “coulda bust every bone in my body”. Here the readers deduce that Lennie has obvious physical power over George. Also we can deduce that the phrase “bust” suggests that Lennie’s physical power is to a great extent against George who has little physical power compared to Lennie. In addition, it is ironic that although Lennie has a significant advantage of physical power George remains the dominant in the duo as he