How Does Steinbeck Present George's Friendship

Radio host Bernard Meltzer once said, “A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.” In other words, in a true friendship flaws don’t matter. In his novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck tells the story of Lennie and George, two characters who remain friends regardless of any trouble or flaws. Lennie acts as a child and he doesn’t remember what George tells him. He has a mental problem and he’s dumb.

Although George can be seen as caring to others he may be seen as controlling over what Lennie says and does. In chapter four, George goes off with the other farmhands to have fun and relax while he leaves Lennie alone back at the ranch. When Lennie goes off to pet his pup that Slim, one of the other farmhands, gave him, he sees someone else in the barn so he goes over and starts to talk with the stable buck, Candy.. When George found out what Lennie was talking about with a black guy, he scowled at Lennie and scolded him. " George scowled. "I though I tol ' you not to tell nobody about that."

Character List Lennie: Lennie is a ranch worker in California. Lennie has a slight mental disability, and relies on his friend and fellow ranch worker George to help him find his way around. He is tall and mighty compared to George. Lennie and George plan on having their own ranch, complete with rabbits for Lennie to take care of. George: George is also a ranch worker in California.

Although friendship and loyalty are major features in the novel Of Mice and Men love is the key to all traits. Without love all those major features would fail, fall apart. At the end George has no other option to kill Lennie. But George truly loves Lennie, he shoots Lennie painlessly in the back of the head. Lennie dies with a happy thought of a dream of the farm they want to own someday.

Loneliness can overcome companionship Is it better to love than not be loved at all? It is better to experience love because if you don't then you will be lonely. You may not feel the pain that comes with the price of love, you could also not experience the joy that love provides. The novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Introduces the effects of isolation through its characters. Steinbeck depicts the essential loneliness of ranch life in California and their desire for companionship.

In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie share an unbreakable bond. The bond they share is based off of many obligations; such as guilt, love, and the fear of being alone. Despite their many obligations, they both possess many qualities that help to benefit each other. Their bond is justified throughout the novel by elaborating on their everyday life on the ranch and by conversation that occurs amongst George and Lennie. Lennie is a mentally unstable man who is not capable of properly taking care of himself, or making the best decisions in the situations that he is faced with throughout the novel.

Friendship is the divine feeling or relationship of care for one another. A friend is there to boost yourself confidence they stand by us confidently making us believe in ourselves. Friends are there to listen to the nonsense happening in our life and are understanding. In the novel Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck it talks and shows the meaning of friendship and how it's important in our life and in the book.

Many examples prove the tight friendship between the main characters. George says if he did not have to take care of Lennie, maybe he could have a girl and life would be so much easier. Things must not be so bad if he has stayed with him for so long. Also, working on a ranch can be lonely but George and Lennie have each to avoid that feeling. Even, Lennie tries to show George that he can do things for him and not be a burden; he offers to give George his ketchup, if they had any, hypothetically.

The novel Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, Steinbeck shows how power and control is used in the majority of the novel. Through the use of metaphor, simile, and diction, Steinbeck evaluates the theme of power and control. Steinbeck’s use for the strategies is to appeal to the reader’s sense of pathos. Pathos is shown through the use of diction and metaphors used in the book. The  novel takes place in Southern California where George and Lennie try to find a way to make their dreams come true.

The plot: Lennie and George are migrant workers during the Great Depression. When the novel opens, they 're on their way to work on a ranch in California. Instead of going straight to the ranch, they camp by the river for the night and talk about their dream of one day having their own ranch. And that dream is central in the text. George is a small man with strong and sharp features.