George stated at the beginning that Lennie always gets into troubles. “You do bad things and I go to get you out,” (Steinbeck, 11). When Lennie held Curley's wife tighter and tighter we all knew whats going to happen because first he killed a mouse and he thought he will not do the same thing with a puppy. John Steinbeck used his creativity use of foreshadowing to make the book more enjoyable to read. 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.
Of Mice and Men: Controlled Assessment Preparation What methods does Steinbeck use to present George and Lennie’s relationship in Of Mice and Men? Refer to three key episodes and discuss them in detail. ‘Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They ain’t no family. They don’t belong no place…With us it ain’t like that.
Infact he considers himself "a mouse," because he has retreated his life into a hole. He is not very confident of himself and looks upon society as people being all alike, like keys on a piano being played by the commontry of society. He says that people have two choices, to let someone play you or choose not to conform and play yourself. Because of his actions, he rejects society and is running his life by his own intellect. Although the Underground Man is very unsure of himself, he is not crazy, just honest about a crazy society.
George admits this to Slim when discussing him and Lennie "It's a lot nicer to travel around with a guy you know" "I forgot again" This suggests that Lennie has the mental immaturity of a child, as children always forget and only remember things they find important. "Aw, let me have it George" This suggests this as well as children don't understand that when they've got to follow an order, and they throw tantrums. "Where we going?" This shows that Lennie has the mental immaturity of a child as he depends totally on George for his survival, therefore he just follows George and takes his orders. Steinbeck conveys that George gets easily annoyed with Lennie as he always has to remind him as Lennie always forgets things; "So you forget that awready did you?
I think his appearance did convey his personality quite well in a way. The author says ‘he looked as if he had been put together all wrong’ which could also be relating to the fact that in his head he was a bit muddled as well. In the first part of the book when he is 14, he was ‘awkward’ and ‘taller than his father’ with ‘his head too large, his ears too sticking out, his lips never quite closing’. This is already giving the impression that he doesn’t quite fit in. He is described as ‘uncoordinated and clumsy’ and he was often teased and beaten because of this.
In the book George and Lennie work on the “Tyler Ranch” in the Salinas Valley, keeping going through the monotonous life with the old-fashioned and misleading “American Dream”. The book details how the dream life the two men dream of having is at times out of reach, tantalizingly close when Candy buys his way into their plans (“S’pose I went in with you guys. That’s three hundred an’ fifty bucks I’d put in...”) and how the dream is revealed to be false and snatched away at the end of the book with the death of Curley’s wife. In the 1930s the economy was in a bad way in America and most of the sought after land had been taken earlier in the history of the country. The dreams in “Of Mice and Men” are used by Steinbeck to signify characters in the book that have the potential to aspire to something better.
This money was important because the economy in Russia was poor at the time; bearing in mind there was a huge number of peasants and very few working class people at the time may suggest a reason for this. Russia's biggest produce was grain. This was the most important factor in my opinion, as without this money, Witte wouldn't have been able to implement any of his ideas. The second area was state sponsored development of heavy industry. Witte believed that heavy industry was the way forward, because he thought that light industry and agriculture could both benefit from this boost.
The only problem is that this impact seems to be more negative than positive. The things that Holden are choosing to do are very childlike and then when he does decide to try to be somewhat of an adult, he always cowers down just like a little child would. When this occurs, he always talks about Allie. This seems to make him feel better but at the same time, it shows that Holden can’t move on from Allie. This is why he can’t move
Admittedly, as sympathetic and understanding as readers are for Lennie, Lennie is still a danger to other lives. In many instances in the book, Lennie accidentally kills many lives but does not realize the significance of his mistakes. Lennie is a man with the mind of a child with an unequal match of formidable strength, hence committing murder without meaning to do so. In the scene when Lennie kills Curley’s wife, he has the same slightly panicked reaction as when he killed the rat and puppy earlier in the book. Readers then realize that Lennie doesn’t understand the difference between killing an animal and murdering a human, therefore putting other lives at risk.
Railroad companies that charged four times as much as on the East gave farmers incentive to band together in order to combat outrages rates politically (Document D). Freight rates especially hurt farmers, who were far from both buying and selling markets, a clever extortion trick by the railroad companies to force farmers into paying at every occasion (Document F). With over a twenty percent decline in agriculture economy over fifty years, the farming community grew smaller and less organized by the day – an easy target for abusive