are all dying of loneliness. One of the main themes of the book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck is loneliness. In my essay I will describe how the characters, Crooks, Curley’s wife, and Candy are all impacted by loneliness. “A guy gets too lonely and he gets sick.” (p73). This is just one of the many ways that Crooks explains loneliness in the book Of Mice and Men. Crooks is a very lonely man because he is black. Therefore, he is excluded from the rest of the workers. Crooks feels that there
Of Mice And Men Essay The book, “Of Mice And Men” by John Steinbeck has considerable amount of great morals and themes. One that especially sticks out the most is the theme of loneliness explored throughout the book. Through the course of the book this theme is developed more as certain characters taste or comprehend the feeling of being alone. The first example explored is at the very beginning of the book where it is perspicuous that Lennie relies almost completely on George. They are having a
the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you all alone”. Loneliness is one of the many themes in Of Mice And Men the novel written during the Great Depression by John Steinbeck. In this essay I will be talking about how the characters Lennie, George and Crooks were impacted by loneliness. Although Lennie is a nice and friendly person that would not hurt a fly, Lennie also has a bad temper. George helps Lennie with his
Of Mice and Men Theme Essay Essay #1 Loneliness is an empty feeling that no one likes to have. In the novel Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses loneliness as one of the biggest and main themes. Steinbeck uses loneliness to illustrate how people are driven to find companionship. George and Lennie are the main characters of this novel, as well as, “Best friends” who travel together to different ranches to find work and save up enough money to buy the house on the “Fatta the Lan’”. George practically
the great musician Johnny Cash, and it reflects loneliness, one of the main themes of the book Of Mice and Men written during The Great Depression by Author John Stienebeck. Loneliness is a very prevalent and central theme throughout the novel. In this essay, I will go over the loneliness of Crooks the stable buck, Lennie, And George. Crooks is the african stable buck that works on the farm with the men. although he gets to work and play with the men, he still lives in his own area, because he is
The Great Depression created remoteness within everyone in the communitunties all over the United States and as America tried to overcome this event the population at the time had to face immense obstacles. In the novel Of Mice and Men, the friends George and Lennie go to the ranch in Soledad after an incident in the town of Weed. They work at the new ranch to earn enough money to buy a ranch of their own. At the new ranch a nameless woman conveyed as Curley’s wife has a conversation with Lennie
it can affect people. Following on, in this essay I will be writing about: Lennie; Crooks and Curley’s Wife. In my opinion, Steinbeck portrays Lennie as a slow and a dull minded person (in juxtaposition to George). However he also shows him to be really innocent and
Crooks also suffered from a variety of prejudice and discrimination because of his race. Crooks was made to feel inferior, substandard to the other white men on the ranch, Also he didn’t really speak too anybody that often. However he was intelligent, he could read and write but none of this was recognized. He was just known as the ‘black man’ the ‘nigger’ of the ranch. He was forced to live in a barn isolated and segregated by the other men. My evidence for this is his room; he lives in a harness