Literary Analysis Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck creates the image of two workers trying to achieve their “Dream Farm” in Mice and Men. In the novel, the two workers George and Lennie have to overcome obstacles. Lennie’s disability hinders his memory. The two workers rely on each other as they travel through California. John Steinbeck utilizes theme, symbolism, and repetition in his novel Of Mice and Men to create a protective world of friendship and dependence. Steinbeck uses themes of friendship, dreams, and powerlessness. “Because.. because I got you to look after me and you got me to look after you and that's why.” (14). In the novel, friendship plays an important role George and Lennie’s life. Steinbeck teaches the reader the importance …show more content…
Lennie’s pup relies on him like Lennie relies on George. George has to guide Lennie like Lennie has to guide and discipline the dog. Steinbeck uses symbolism to communicate the ideas of false hope, true nature, and dependence. Steinbeck also uses repetition in the novel Of Mice and Men. “Live off the fat of the lan” Steinbeck constantly is using the phrase live off the lan. George wishing he was alone. Steinbeck also creates the image of George being isolated from lennie. “God a’ mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an’ work, an’ no trouble.” (11.) Steinbeck also uses repetition to express how George feels when he is around Lennie. Hiding in the bushes. Hiding in the bushes is used over and over to enforce the importance of hiding in lennie’s head. “Lennie- if you jus’ happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an’ hide in the bushes.” (15). Steinbeck repeats hiding in the bushes because he knows there is an abundance of trouble. The bushes represent a safe place for both George and Lennie. Bradbury uses the examples of repetition to show the importance of getting away from trouble and not letting
That ain’t no good.” (STEINBECK 41) George and Lennie were both born in the same town, and raised up together. George knew his Aunt Clara very well, and after she passed away, George took Lennie as his own. Sure, George may not have had to stay, but he still kind of did have
In John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men”, Lennie and George travel together to work. They discuss the trouble they experience with Lennie's touching things he shouldn't and how that forces them to run, hide, and constantly search for work. Throughout the book, Steinbeck gives just a small picture of all the trouble Lennie has caused and how George continues to guide him to get by. A problem with a girl leads us to chapter 1 and 6, and how they share in setting, but George and Lennie's interactions differ. The similarities and differences of chapter 1 and 6 show how Lennie and George's cohesive friendship with a bright future develops into a loving bond that had to end.
After reading the novel and watching the movie “Of Mice and Men”, I have learned about the lifestyle of migrant workers in California during the 1930s, which I did not know about before studying the novel. California back in the 1930s is very different from what I pictured it to be as the conditions of life weren’t that good. This is also the first novel that I have read in my years as a student that contains so much foreshadowing. Never before had I read a book where the author produced so much foreshadowing in such a short book. Steinbeck uses Lennie as a source of motivation and hope in achieving the dream farm that George, Candy, Crooks and Lennie himself desire.
“I want you to stay with me, Lennie. Jesus Christ, somebody’d shoot you for a coyote if you was by yourself” (Steinbeck 13). George views his dream of being super practical for the kind of life he lives. Living on his own ranch with Lennie will let him have less of a worry about Lennie making decisions that will put the both of them in jeopardy. Living secluded on their own property will only make life easier.
Finally if he hadn’t done it Lennie would continue to hold him back. Because on Pg.10 it says “If I was alone I could live so easy. I could get a job an’ work, an’ no trouble.” George said this implying that he would have been better off without Lennie tagging around holding him back.
“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, shows us the importance of friendship, loyalty, and dream chasing. John Steinbeck shows this through the life of George and Lennie and all their trials and tribulations they faced in their life. In the book “Of Mice and Men”, we see the bond George and Lennie have and the goal they share that they try to reach together. George constantly complains about the hassle he has to put up with because of Lenny, the most important character.
John Steinbeck illustrates the theme of trust and loyalty by demonstrating the enormous bond that George and Lennie have in the book, Of Mice and Men. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses two distinct men who travel together in search of jobs to create this intriguing and diverse novel. Lennie Small, who isn’t so small, has a few mental issues.
George realizes how much he and Lennie need each other, leading them to discuss what makes them so different compared to other guys. (Steinbeck 11-14) Steinbeck uses both imagery and syntax to help convey the message of friendship. After the fight, George tells Lennie the plan of their future ranch. Using imagery, the reader has a visual and can imagine the ranch, ¨O.K. Someday--we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an´ a cow and some pigs and--” (Steinbeck 14).
The initial paragraphs of John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men introduces Lennie and George, two men living on the road, in search of a job. Both men have dreams of their own and depend on each other in order to achieve them. George takes care of Lennie, who is mentally incapable, while Lennie provides company to George. These men wander around hoping to achieve the American Dream. They continue to go after it, without realizing that they will never be able to obtain it.
Lennie was busy trying to have George’s dreams come true, even if Lennie was destroying his own reality. Repetition was used to show how their american dream was constantly becoming harder and harder to reach and they never even noticed. By using repetition, John Steinbeck refers to how Lennie’s mass killings would help destroy their reality’s while chasing their
By giving Lennie these childish and animalistic qualities, Steinbeck is illustrating how his immaturity causes him to get into trouble and distances him from the other workers. Although, through all of Lennie’s mistakes, George stays with him because he needs his companionship as much as Lennie does as it brings them both hope and strength in their desperate situations as migrant workers during the
In this literary novella, Steinbeck digs into the idea of the nature of dreams and that each man must make sacrifices or battle some other outside force to make a dream come true. This follows with the theme that humans give meaning to their life and future by creating dreams. George and Lennie both have vast dreams that influence them in different
TS In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, one of the main characters, George, faces a difficult situation when his best friend, Lennie, murders the wife of another character, Curley. S George must make a significant decision to either let Lennie continue to live and allow him to suffer through Curley’s vengeance, or to prematurely end Lennie’s life, and thus save him from endless torture at the hand of an enemy. George feels responsible for Lennie because of his promise to Aunt Clara to take care of him. Shooting Lennie was George’s way of protecting him.
Tone in Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck famously said, “All great and precious things are lonely.” This was the mindset he had when he wrote Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men tells the story of George and Lennie, two displaced ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States. When they find the ranch, Lennie’s habits progress and guarantee trouble. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses the literary devices of imagery, simile, and personification to create a graceful tone.
By using characterization, conflict, and imagery to develop his characters Lennie and George, Steinbeck shows his readers that in any circumstance, good or bad, karma will appear and bring people the things they deserve. The touching and painful ending of Steinbeck's story shows chaos in a peaceful place in which Lennie is dying and yet still existing through all three devices: the characterization of both Lennie and George, the results of the conflicts they faced, and a vivid description of Lennie's death. Even after decades have passed since Steinbeck published this novel, Steinbeck's message to the reader stays the same, chaos can occur in even the most peaceful places. Never leaving people’s sides, always lurking in the shadows, waiting to