‘Of mice and men’ begins by describing the setting of the story. ‘A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas river drops in close to hillside bank and runs deep and green.’ The proper noun ‘Salinas’ is used to make the description of the setting more detailed. The effect that this gives to the reader is that it makes them feel like if they were in paradise; therefore, it emphasizes a ‘normal’ looking setting to a heavenly place. The noun ‘green’ is a simple colour but it also demonstrates how nature is unpretentious. This shows that a regular colour can be seen from a different perspective.It also uses juxtaposition because it uses a normal colour in a celestial place. Overall, the fact that the story begins by describing the setting makes
Chapter 1: In the first chapter the author introduces you to Treegap. It explains how the Fosters owned the wood. No one went into the wood because it belonged to the Fosters. Then it tells you about Winnie.
Of Mice and Men use conflict to display external conflict within Curley and Lennie. After all George and Lennie had been through a new problem shows up when they appear at the ranch. When they meet Curley automatically does not like Leenie considering Curley does not at all admire huge men. Shortly into the story Curley gets outraged with Lennie and starts a fight. During the fight, George says, “‘Get him Lennie’....
“A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya. ”(Steinbeck, page 73).
“All things truly wicked start from innocence.” (Hemingway). This quote by Earnest Hemingway relates to the novella Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck as it mentions how people who are overcome with innocence may be deprived of a fair life. In the novella, Steinbeck uses foreshadowing, motif, and circular plot to reveal that innocence can suffer in a harsh world. By using these techniques Steinbeck can create connections between each of his characters that are too innocent to understand the troubles in life.
John Steinbeck in his novella, Of Mice and Men, utilizes multiple writing strategies to develop his central idea. Numerous different main concepts can be taken from the novella. One that is extremely prominent is the perception of the “american dream,” working diligently to achieve one’s goals and objectives. Steinbeck reinforces this central idea by applying imagery, figurative language, strongly into the entirety of the novella, but especially applying it in the first chapter.
“The dark sky, filled with angry swirling clouds….” Is one way the author presents the setting in the story “Treasure Of Lemon Brown”. In The story “Treasure Of Lemon Brown” By Walter Dean Myers the author uses descriptive adjectives to develop the setting. There are many places in the story to show these techniques. The technique in this story by Walter Dean Myers is descriptive adjectives to describe the setting.
Isolation, confinement and loneliness are major themes within Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper. Without Isolation, confinement and loneliness, the novels would have an entirely different consequences and outcome. With the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper and Lennie from Of Mice and Men being isolated in the setting of the novels, there is no escape from achieving a positive resolution. Dialogue shows the confinement of Lennie’s and the narrator’s mental capacities, as well as foreshadowing, that demonstrates how the only way to gain a sense of freedom in both texts is to die.
Of Mice and Men, set in California’s Salinas Valley, depicts the world of the migrant worker, a world in which Steinbeck himself had lived, and the workers’ search for independence. Steinbeck was critical of what he perceived as the United States’ materialism, and his work echoes his convictions about the land and its people. Like the characters in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Of Mice and Men’s George and Lennie dream of a piece of land to call their
We have read two books this year: ´Of mice and men´ and ´The curious incident of the dog in the night-time’. The books differ a lot, however they also share some similarities. ´ Of mice and men´ is about two men, named Lennie and George, who live in the time of the Great depression. They are looking for a job, but this isn’t easy because Lennie is mentally disabled so George needs to look after him the whole time.
John Steinbeck's novella 'Of Mice and Men' contains various important themes. One of the significant themes of this novella is hope, friendship and loneliness, determination that empowers a man to endeavour with a feeling of self-esteem. In this novella, Loneliness is presented to be one of the dominant themes. The composer outlines the depression of ranch life in the mid 1930's and shows how individuals headed from town to town in an attempt to discover kinship keeping in mind the end goal was to escape from forlornness.
John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on February 27, 1902. He grew up in a small rural town on an agricultural valley. This, along with the Pacific Coast, served as the setting for some of his greatest works. Some of his notable works are Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, and East of Eden. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
After reading Of Mice and Men, I felt the need to research the author. After researching the author, I realized that he based this book off of his experiences. Steinbeck grew up in Salinas, California and that is where the book takes place. Due to John Steinbeck growing up and experiencing the Great Depression, I think his inspiration to write this book came from the social and economic issues that he had witnessed. He worked closely with migrants and itinerants and that deepened the empathy for workers as well as deepening his love for writing.
"The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan Mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees- willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter's flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool. " The setting of Of mice and men is calm and beautiful which is quite a contrast to the mean characters and their violent actions. The peacefulness of the setting should create a cooperative, inclusive environment but it does not. The setting creates a deceptive feeling that adds to the tragic tone and characterization.
In John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men there is an ample amount of foreshadowing that is used to foretell upcoming events. Instead of using people's thoughts and dreams as tools of foreshadowing, he uses actual events to foretell future events. Steinbeck uses smaller scale situations to predict the outcomes of much more complex predicaments. The unique way he includes this literary device in the novel causes you to overlook some of the foreshadowing while reading, and then recognize its significance many chapters later.
“Of Mice and men” is a novella written by author John Steinbeck. The novella is set on the west of california in a small town called soledad, in the time where the novella was set there was a drought in america and ranch workers went to the west coast for jobs and money. “Of Mice and men is set in a small American town called Soledad meaning “loneliness” in spanish. Soledad was not just chosen because of it meaning loneliness in spanish but because of its location on the west coast of California where the soil is fertile unlike the rest of America at that time which means that it is perfect for ranches and ranch workers. Firstly Steinbeck writes ‘on one side of the river golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong Gabilan mountains.’