Curley doesn’t dare fight Slim or Carlson, and Candy is too old, so he takes it out on Lennie who he thinks is laughing at him. Steinbeck uses violent words like ‘slashed’, ‘smashed’ and ‘slugging’ to make the fight vivid, as well as describing the blood. He also makes it seem wilder by making PHILIP ALLAN LITERATURE GUIDE FOR GCSE © Philip Allan Updates 1 OF MICE AND MEN Sample essays George yell. He also makes us feel sorry for Lennie and his ‘terror’, which makes Slim get up, as if the fight is going to spread and involve all of the men. (b) The threat of violence is present in Of Mice and Men really from the first moment we meet Curley.
Boy jokes with Dunny as he is uneasy with this myth when he states, “‘Really? Not much chance of that here, is there Leo? You’d find my throne a bit too big, Dunny.” “The other is that Gyges killed Candaules.” “I don’t suppose you’ll do that, Dunny.’” Page 149-150. Dunny never follows through on the myth, but he is shown to be prophetic when Leola throws herself at Dunny and is rejected. Davies shows that myth is never far from Dunny's
MERCUTIO If there were two men like you, pretty soon there’d be none because the two of you would kill each other. You would fight with a man if he had one more whisker or one less whisker in his beard than you have in your beard. You’ll fight with a man who’s cracking nuts just because you have hazelnut-colored eyes. Only you would look for a fight like that. Your head is as full of fights as an egg is full of yolk, but your head has been beaten like scrambled eggs from so much fighting.
Power Power is shown in many different forms within the novel; physical, mental, coercive and legitimate. I think that Lennie shows the most physical power in the novel, as Curley threatens Lennie and punches him numerous times Lennie just takes the hits until George tells Lennie to “get him”, Lennie doesn’t have any mental power, it is George that thinks for Lennie and Lennie protects George physically. Curley demonstrates legitimate power in the way that he uses his position of being the bosses son (second highest position on the ranch) to threaten people with a canning (firing). He has a very prominent insecurity, he hates men who are bigger than him, because he is small. He tries to prove himself by picking fights with the bigger men
The success of the act is shown in the victim named Jim. Out of his three audience members, Jim is the only one who laughs at Tad’s jokes. Jim’s affection for Tad are apparent when he states, “See you an me, we could be freens” (49). Jim’s naïve belief is shattered when Tad reminds Jim of the reality and seriousness of the situation. When Tad confesses the real intentions of his act, “[I]t hurtsch ye far moare if ye get tortured by schomewan ye’ve made friendsch wi causche ye get bewildered….torturing an a’sch no really aboot the pain, it’sch all tae dae wo yer emotionsch” (50), one really becomes aware that there is not going to be a happy ending to the
Clint ended up busting Oakley’s nose accidently. And just like that the game was over. I felt like Clint won the game because he got the first hit and he busted Oakley’s nose. Well that only made Oakley mad and gave him more than enough reason to beat Clint down. Oakley confronts Clint in the shower room and Clint asks “Why me?”, “Why not Marvin?” But I believe he was saying it in a way to show that Oakley was really a wimp and he was telling him to pick on someone his own size.
Stradlater only had one option, he had to punch Holden. Which knocked him on the floor. His nose began to bleed. Than Stradlater looked at him and said “Why the hell don’t’cha shut up when I tellya to? You asked for it, God damn it.” Holden layed there on the floor, yelling at Stardlater, calling him a “moron sonuvabitch”.
Henry was taken as a POW and when he came home he wasn’t the same person as when he left. “When he came home, though, Henry was very different, and I’ll say this: the change was no good” (Louise Erdrich 309). After realizing that Henry is different Lyman, his brother, goes and beats the car up hoping that Henry will fix it and be more like himself. After Henry fixes the truck the boys, Henry and Lyman, decide to take it for a spin to head to the Red River. “We started off, east, toward Pembina and the Red River because Henry wanted to see the high water”(Louise Erdrich 312).
However, when his uncle finds this out, he is totally amused and proceeds to humiliate Teddy:“ ‘You’d never guess what that kid has been doing up there!’ He shook his head in wonder and amusement. … ‘You’d never believe it, but that great big lummox
He SUCKS!” so the guy, “Whoa, who the hell are you talking to like that?” while he saying that to me, my friend Cito is just standing there making fun of the other players. He and Aubrey are just laughing mad hard. Then the kid looked at Aubrey and punches him in the face. That’s when I got in the way and punch the kid in his face. So his friends came to come help him and that’s when my friends, Lane, Cito, Marcus, Chris, and Yasmin come to help us out.