He readily admits that the current state of society is due to the cowardice of people like himself, who would not speak out against book burning when they still could have stopped it. He berates himself for being a coward, but he shows himself capable of acts that require great courage and place him in considerable danger.Clarisse McClellan,a beautiful seventeen-year-old who introduces Montag to the world’s potential for beauty and meaning with her gentle innocence and curiosity. She is an outcast from society because of her odd habits, which include hiking, playing with flowers, and asking questions, but she and her (equally odd) family seem genuinely happy with themselves and each other. Last but not least... Granger The leader of the “Book People,” the group of hobo intellectuals Montag finds in the country. Granger is intelligent, patient, and confident in the strength of the human spirit.
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.
Lennie- a genuinely nice person, has nice smile that tempted Crooks to let him in 69. Lennie- forgetful- forgets that George told him not to tell anyone about his dream 70. Loneliness- colored people are alone in the world, Crooks recounts his history of being alone 71. Not having contact with much people gives him idea to scare Lennie 72. Lennie’s stupidity allows him to believe that someone hurt George even though Crooks is just assuming 72.
Therefore, the snake can represent Delia’s protector, sin, death, or devil but it most certainly is a mirrored reflection of Sykes. Sykes routinely shows his lack of respect for Delia. One morning Delia, sorting laundry and wondering where Sykes has gone with her horse, becomes paralyzed by fear when suddenly something “long, round, limp, and black falls upon her shoulders and slithers to the floor beside her.” Again Delia is reminded of what a malicious man Sykes can be. He uses a bullwhip to scare her; she believes it is a snake. Delia
In an instance of foreshadowing, she thinking, “Oh well, whatever goes over the Devil’s back, is got to come under his belly”(39) which means that she knows eventually Skyes will get what’s coming to him. Delia sets out to do her washing and passes by a group of men sitting at a store. The tone and focus of “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston changes for a while as the men comment on how pretty Delia used to be and how it’s such a shame that she’s beaten so often and lost her good looks. They talk about Syke’s behavior with the Bertha woman and generally frown upon him, with one saying, “There oughter be a law about him… He ain’t fit tuh carry guts tuh a bear.”(31) Clearly the whole town seems to have a negative reaction against Sykes. On her way back, Delia sees Sykes out front of Bertha’s telling her that he will buy her whatever she wants.
When Paul develops a urinary tract infection, John lures him over to his cell, and uses his healing powers to make Paul well again. He also uses his power to bring another inmates pet mouse back to life after a guards kills it. Paul is amazed and bewildered by John powers and the together; the guards sneak John out of the prison to cure the wardens wife of cancer. When they return to the prison, John "passes" the disease to Percy, and guard that like to torment the prisoners, causing Percy to shoot another inmate and fall into a catatonic state that he can never recover from. Paul eventually learns that John is innocent, but John chooses to die anyways because he is ready to escape the cruelty of the world.
The Man in this story is an alcoholic, yet that is still no excuse for the actions that he did. It is said that he loves his animals and enjoy them very much and out of all, his favorite is his cat. Yet something suddenly urged him to hurt his cat and it says “ I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!”. If this guy was not insane he wouldn’t counteract his words of loving his cat so much, then going about hurting the innocent animal. At the same time he felt some remorse, and knew what he did was wrong, and to cope with what he chose to do to his cat, he drank the memory away.
They understand that it is their friendship that give their life meaning and a common purpose – “We’re going to have a little house and a couple of acres” At the end of the novel, George kills Lennie as a final loving act of friendship – “Everybody gonna be nice to you, nobody gonna hurt nobody” However, in doing so, he condemns himself to the lonely and meaningless existence of all the other ranch workers – “An’ when the end of the month come, I could go to a cat house”. It would seem that in the hopeless, hostile world of the American Depression, friendship must always give way to loneliness. Of Mice And Men depicts a world of shattered dreams, how much do you agree with this statement? Throughout the novel, almost all the characters seem to nurture some form of dream. Crooks is dismissive and cynical of the other ranchers’ dreams: “Nobody gets to heaven and nobody gets no land” He believes that all the ranchers’ dreams are unattainable.
Any other person would be less likely to put up with an editor consistently firing him, but Quoyle endures others' disrespect as if he does not believe he deserves to be treated any better. He cries when he stains all of his laundry; he is not only a failure, but he is also resigned to his status as such. “Ah you lout,” said the father. But no pygmy himself. And brother Dick, the father's favorite, pretended to throw up when Quoyle came into a room, hissed, “Lardass, Snotface, Ugly Pig, Warthog, Stupid, Stinkbomb, Fart-tub, Greasebag,” pummeled and kicked until Quoyle curled.
CROOKS Crooks, like Curley’s wife has no name. Crooks is merely a nick name and it appears that the novel does not mention the most inferior characters names. He appreciates Lennie’s company “I tell ya a guy gets too lonely, an’ he gets sick.” Crooks is happy to admit that he has no company and is isolated because of his colour, he also admits to have no dream as he is afraid of being disappointed. It seems lonely characters can talk to Lennie as he will not tell anyone. Crooks is used to being ignored and as a result of this he is very protective of his possessions “Ya got no right to come in my room!” The characters are rendered helpless by their isolation, and yet, even at their weakest, they seek to destroy those who are even weaker than