In the renowned novel by Nobel Laureate John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, the author writes about an important theme regarding human essence: that one should be defined not by his intelligence, power, age, handicap, background, or other outwardly nature, but by his or her kindness and empathy. Steinbeck illustrates this using the backdrop of the Great Depression in the farmland of California, where a story of two ranchers takes place. Lennie, a large, powerful man with a mental disability, is extremely
humane selves. However, John Steinbeck’s character, Lennie Small, defies this statement. He is an animal in a sense, and is taught to act human. These set of circumstances being the result of his mental disability. The mentally disabled man is set within Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. And using animalistic descriptions of Lennie, the author allows us to understand who Lennie is, how the other characters view him, and why these opposing viewpoints led to the death of Lennie Small. One of the most
himself in this book, except Lennie and George. Lennie has lost everyone that is closest to him, so George takes care of him because Lennie is mentally handicap. Lennie and George travel around together working on farms. Lennie gets George into a lot of trouble forcing them to move around a lot. George gets angry and becomes ashamed of Lennie. Lennie wants something to call his own, so he always tries to pick up mice, which he pets to hard and kills. One day, after Lennie pet his newly born puppy to
In the short book, Of Mice and Men, Lennie is constantly lonely. This can be seen in multiple parts or the book. The only person he knows well is George, but George and Lennie started to drift away when they are adjusting to their new job and George becomes more well known. An example of this is in the book when Crooks say’s “suppose George went into town tonight and you never heard of him no more” (Steinbeck 71). In this moment you realize that Lennie has nobody and when George leaves he is lonely
the world. The of Mice and Men is about these two boys out in the country looking for jobs, but are trouble is always following them. Lennie is a big strong guy, but is not so smart. George on the other hand is a very scrawny looking kid, but is the brains of the group. The story takes place in Soledad and it happens during the great depression. George and Lennie is different because of how they act. The difference between them is that George is the brain of the group while Lennie is not. While they
The relationship between the two men are very irregular. Lennie is described as a big man with a very limited emotional and intellectual disposition. Lennie is like a child in a man's body.However,George is smaller in stature but quick mentally, he does much of the talking and thinking for them.They both share a bond of friendship in because they are both very lonely and in a way don’t even realize .Lennie’s relationship with George is very rough or like I stated above irregular.Lennie always saw
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is about two migrant workers Lennie and George who travel together and work together. Lennie is a dunce and cannot take care in himself and George is more intelligent but still seems to have a lack of education. But he is still able to take care of himself and also has put the responsibility on himself to take care of Lennie. In the book Lennie cannot think for himself, make proper decisions and prevents George from living the life he is fully capable of. In other
schemes o’ mice an’ men/often go awry.” The theme in what Burns said was extremely accurate in reference to the story Of Mice and Men; what one may have in mind might not always have the outcome they wanted or planned. Men are just like mice, despite their physical differences, they follow the same rule of survival, their reputation, and actions are really similar. In order to survive in this harsh community or environment, their chances is mostly based on one’s strength. Indeed men are the highest
George and Lennie are trying to accomplish their dream of owning a farm but that will not come easy because one of them, Lennie is always getting in trouble. The fact that Lennie always makes them lose their job is not helping at all. Their dream collapses when Lennie accidentally kills Curley’s wife and the unexpected then happened. George and Lennie find themselves in trouble because Lennie was accused of raping a girl. He was only trying touch her dress. George takes care of Lennie after her aunt
John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a novel about two migrant laborers – named George and Lennie – working on a ranch in rural California during the Great Depression. George and Lennie are both farmers and friends who find a decent job working on a ranch. Both George’s and Lennie’s life is going well until Lennie commits an inadvertent yet serious act: he kills Curley’s wife. Because of Lennie’s action, George has to make a choice about Lennie; and George decides to put Lennie down. By discerning