John Steinbeck’s “Of MIce and Men” takes place in Salinas, California and the story seems to tell about two men in a partnership who share a dream of having their own land. George is small and his features are sharp but Lennie is big and has a mental problem so he doesn’t think as straight and forgets things often. At the end of the story George Pulls out a gun and shoots him in the head because Lennie had caused another problem by killing Curley’s wife. I think this was the right thing to do because they could not keep running anymore, Lennie had already caused too many problems in the past, and because George knew that they could not do anything about him anymore. Back before George and Lennie had arrived at this ranch, Lennie had made
“George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head… He pulled the trigger” (Steinbeck 106). George ended up killing Lennie in fear of what was to happen to him in Of Mice and Men by George Steinbeck. George and Lennie are two migrant workers, and best friends, travelling looking for a job. They wind up at a farm where they have to deal with the boss’s son, Curley.
I think that throughout chapter five, both Lennie and Curley's wife feel regret through their actions, or their emotions. I think that Lennie feel regret on chapter five because of the fact that he just killed his pup, only friend, who he will no be able to pet the rabbit anymore if George saw what he did to the pup by accidentally. This quote“Why do you got to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice. I didn’t bounce you hard” (85) showed that since Lennie kills the pup that Slim gave him while he was playing too roughly with the puppy.
Does the story end the way you expected it to? As I was finishing each chapter, I was predicting what the next chapter would be about, my predictions weren't so similar to the book. Although some ideas were not so different but not so alike. In chapter 2, when Curley was snapping at Lennie, I thought Lennie was done for, since Curley was the boss's son. But it wasn't like that, Lennie stayed with his job.
Based off what the reader knows about Crooks from chapter four, the reader can infer that he would be the kind of person to join the NAACP. The reason for this is because he believes that African Americans do not receive the same things that whites do. In the text it states, “‘ This is just a nigger talkin’, an’ a busted-black nigger, So it don’t mean nothing, see? [...]
No matter how good we act or how humane we are, due to our lack of personality and abilities, we can never achieve what we deserve. As individuals, many people do good deeds towards others every day, but nobody earns what they deserve. Everyone is a good person at heart and deserves a better life than what they have now, but due to our limitations we can’t always achieve them, similarly to Lennie and George’s situation as they struggled in the limited world in gaining money for a piece of land as “all men dream of”, “We gotta get a big stake together. I know a little place we can get cheap, but they ain’t givin’ it away” (56). In addition, no matter how good someone is or how hard they work, they will never achieve their dreams because dreams
Of Mice and Men Essay Of course money and power is something so great to have, people often get caught up in their own world of making themselves happy that they forget about family and true friends that are much greater than money and power. Money and power comes and goes, while friendship can stay for a lifetime. Money and power is hard to get and even harder to keep it, while friendship is easy to find and easy to keep forever (Compound). Money and power will leave you lonesome and make you somebody you’re not just to please people, while friendship has somebody there to comfort you anytime, make you believe in yourself and bring the good out of you even if that means sacrificing a lot. Friendship is far superior than money and power ever was (simple).
One of our favorite parts was definitely in the beginning, when George and Lenny were camping out. George cooks some beans, and then Lenny rambled for a bit about how he wishes he had ketchup which causes George to explode. Then he settles down, and tells Lenny how one day they will they have their own farm and raise rabbits. We like this part because it reveals how conflicted George was. Another favorite part of the book was when Lenny killed the mouse on accident because it was in his pocket and he was still petting it as if it was still alive because he didn’t understand the power of his own strength or even that it was no longer living shows his innocence.
Do you think a person would put there self’s in harms way and get close to a stranger. Hear of someone being murdered by john Steinbeck. Men of mice there are two men they travel and she gets mixed up in it badly. Curlys wife is to blame because she provoked it and put herself in that situation. Curlys wife is being nosy and she doesn’t need to put her nose into everything.
Soledad - Not one mile away from the Salinas River where Lennie Small was found dead, another body has been discovered. On a nearby farm the body of a woman was found. Al Wilts, the deputy sheriff of Soledad, is leading the investigation. "The murders might be connected, further information will follow when the investigation has ended.
The essence of humans’ true desires are three simple, alluring words: power, riches and fame. Three words, which put together sound dark, yet enticing. Take that away, and humanity is left with nothing but the company of one another. No heterodoxy exists, and everyone is left contented. This, however, is impossible in reality.
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In the play Of Mice and Men Lennie and George were the main characters. Lennie is mentally handicapped, and George was taking care of him. George and Lennie are people trying to find a job. They are best friends, and though George says he wanted to be alone, he would never want to live without Lennie. The costumes in the play really showed what time period the people were in, and I thought that they were made very well.
The adaption of Of Mice and Men author John steinbeck was made into a film in 1992 and directed by Gary Sinise. Of Mice and Men tells the story of the bond between two characters. Steinbeck is a great actor, In 1939, Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for The grapes of Wrath. I think John steinbeck effectively showed the theme Friendship and loyalty push us to make tough choices.
A work of literature that has unsettled me is Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. This caused me to stir with strong unsettling emotion because of the way that the novel ended. Near the end of the story, a mentally deficient man, Lennie accidently murders a young woman. He was simply trying to quiet her. She was so scared from his attentions that she had started screaming.
In the novella, Of Mice and Men, the author John Steinbeck illustrates a ranch in the 1930’s during the great depression where those who fit into mainstream society run the show, and those deemed “outcasts” are rendered useless. Steinbeck depicts characters with setbacks that diminish their value in the eyes of society, and contrasts them to characters that have no difficulties conforming to the norm. Crooks, being a black man isolated by his race, and Candy, a elderly man limited by his age and missing limb are examples of Steinbeck characters that experience hardships because of the differences. The poor treatment of Crooks and Candy by the other characters, and their chronic unhappiness in a place that doesn’t value them, comments on how