This story was about a young boy named Jennings. Throughout the course of the story, Jennings learned to survive in a cold, frightening world. His mother was too sick to care for him and left him in multiple orphanages and institutions. Life in these orphanages was brutal, punishments were cruel, rules were strict, and Jennings was unable to do anything about it. Through all this time, Jennings was taught not to become too close to people.
In the novel Of Mice and Men, there is a farm hand named Crooks. He was injured by a horses kick to the back when he was younger. He isn’t ever allowed in the bunk house where the other workers sleep because he is African American. Even though that is really the only place he isn’t allowed you still don’t see him often because of his race. Yet another way these people are intolerant.
For their whole lives, they are locked in tiny, little kennels. All through the year, the weather and temperature affect them. In the winter, they are freezing cold, and in the summer, they burn up. Both of these extreme conditions can result in death. Many of the dogs are the same size as their cages, so they are squeezed in there with no room to play, or barely even move.
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay- Abaire is a short play about a family who is dealing with the loss of a son. Both of the parents are a perfect example of how humans deal with grief differently. The family experiences a tremendous amount of distress and they express it with conflicting actions. Becca and Howie are the parents, who suffer a great deal of grief for Danny, their son. Because of the accident that caused her to lose her son, Becca seems to be a very bitter person; she is distant from her husband, judgmental of her sister, and rude to her own mother.
Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya,’ he cried, ‘I tell ya a guy get’s too lonely an’ he gets sick” (69). Crooks’ illustrates that his lack of companionship manifests itself physically and emotionally. The only alleviation of these symptoms for Crooks occurs when he offers to work on Candy, George, and Lennie’s farm (Steinbeck 76). Similarly, Curley’s wife seeks out other people as a way to cope with her loneliness.
This highlights the main theme of the novel: loneliness. Living alone in his room Crooks craves the company of others but, because of his coloured skin and the era he lived in, he is shown to be separated from the other ranch workers and thus suffering from loneliness more than his colleagues. Because of his skin colour, Crooks is shown to have “kept his distance and demanded that other people kept theirs.” Steinbeck describes how crooks wants others to stay away from him and reciprocates their feelings towards him but, later in the novel, he reveals that he is very lonely all by himself and would like to have someone to talk to. However, because he is so used to being shunted away by society, he pushes everyone away from him before they have the chance to do the same, portraying him as a “proud, aloof man”. Again, this fact highlights Crooks' loneliness and, even though he has convinced himself he doesn’t need anyone else, he knows the pleasure of having company and this is something that can’t be replaced by the many possessions he has acquired.
Justin was fearful. He felt like he had to “walk on eggshells” because his home life was so unpredictable. He felt like nobody cared about him and so alone that he had suicidal ideations. Justin said he spent hours in his room, staying up at night and crying because he was so lonesome and afraid. But Justin has some qualities of resilience that may enable him to continue to turn his life around.
Of Mice and Men is filled with characters such as this, which are unable to find a way out of their lonely lives. The loneliness in this story builds and builds and never is allowed to escape. By never allowing its escape, Steinbeck effectively forms a solid backing for the characters and events in his novel. Lennie's loneliness chiefly stems from the fact that he is both mentally undeveloped and very big and strong. His retardation sometimes causes others at the ranch to shun him; even to the point of thinking he is "cuckoo."
Some of the slums residents lack any type of shelter and are forced to sleep outside, rats commonly bite people while they try to sleep, and barely a handful of the 3,000 residents of the slum are lucky enough to have full time employment. The conditions caused by the poverty in this slum were so harsh that Abdul, a kid who has to support a family of 11, and other residents are forced to turn to buying and selling the things that the richer people, from the nearby airport and hotels, throw away in means of
Animals: Hope amidst Devastation Symbolism is a very important literary device in many novels. Symbols help to communicate important messages, themes or ideas in a novel in shorter and more meaningful sentences. They are used to tell or represent something else as it has a relationship with it. In Timothy Findley’s The Wars, there is one symbol present throughout the entirety of the novel-animals. Numerous animals are mentioned many times throughout this novel.