is about two migrant workers George and Lennie, who are out and about looking for jobs at ranches in dreams of raising money to have their own ranch; though the ranch they go to this time, will change their lives forever. Even though I thought the story was empowering and full of meaningful as well as eloquent themes, I didn’t really enjoy the ending; I felt it was a bit abrupt. For my favorite character Lennie, was shot and killed by his now-former best friend, George; therefore I’m going to change
it. The book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck demonstrates a form of mercy killing in the end chapters. George is the caretaker of Lennie, a mentally handicapped young man who causes havoc. George is a young man who is a typical build of a man while Lennie is very large and muscular . With George’s help, Lennie is escorted away from trouble he causes. Curley is the boss’s son at the ranch George and Lennie are staying at. He is very hot tempered and overly protective of his lonely wife. The setting
discrimination and isolation. Steinbeck presents the impossibility of the american dream through George, Lennie, and Candy, reflecting the hopelessness of the people in the Great Depression. In the story, George is allegorized as the average man. He has the american dream, yet the circumstances of the society show him the impossibility to achieve the dream. George’s american dream is to
Steinbeck takes place in the great depression. Steinbeck’s main characters are George and Lennie. George is the “leader” of the friendship because of Lennie’s mental disability. George and Lennie are Migrant farmers and they began working on a ranch near Soledad California in the beginning of the book. George and Lennie plan on getting their own farm together one day. Sadly that dream couldn’t be achieved since George killed Lennie at the end of the book. Steinbeck develops a friendship about love and
Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck writes the best laid plans of mice and men can and do, go wrong. They are doomed from the start because of Lennie’s fatal flaw, he is developmentally disabled and therefore incapable of bringing the dream come true, but his ingenuity also allows him and George to pursue the dream. Lennie’s innocence permits George to believe they can reach the dream. Lennie likes to hear about it so much that he thinks it will come true. (s) Steinbeck perhaps proposes how innocence
classic. Brothers in all but blood, Lennie, a grown man with the personality of a child, and George, Lennie’ protector, had traveled to Salinas Valley in search of a job. There, they had planned on making enough money to buy a piece of land that they could call their own, but their hopes were dashed by the promiscuous Curley’s wife. George had warned Lennie against associating himself with her, but with George playing horseshoes, Lennie had a hard time resisting her dangerous allure which caused a multitude
The book Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, teaches us many lessons through George and Lennie’s friendship. The book starts and ends with George and Lennie. It starts with George and Lennie together and ends together as well. Even though, George might’ve killed Lennie, there’s a bigger meaning behind this. George and Lennie are two people who the readers would not expect as friends, George as someone who is serious and smart, while Lennie is dumb and careless. However, through this friendship
A. Firstly the death of Curley’s wife is shown by Priestley as a huge mistake, this is shown when Lennie says “I done a bad thing. I done a bad thing.” This is the first time in novella that Lennie is seen as realising that he has done wrong on his own, without George telling him, this shows that the event is a sort of point of no return for Lennie as he finally realises what he has done and how there is no going back. Furthermore the repetition of the phrase ‘I done a bad thing’ could show that
for death of Lennie Smalls was a creative but yet a predictable outcome of the end of the novel (foreshadowing). Just before Lennie was murdered he was discussing how he and his travelling companion George were going to live the ‘American Dream’ (Them owning a large amount of land with a farm and animals with the income of money from the farming). Lennie had no clue at all about what was just about to make a life changing moment, Lennie, the fair-minded character, is portrayed to trust George with
viewpoints led to the death of Lennie Small. One of the most significant factors leading to Lennie’s death was his personality. He is a