Everyone’s A Dreamer “ If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs” -Tony Gaskins. Some people who have dreams don’t go for it right away so they end up doing something that wasn’t their dream. John Steinbeck is the author of the book Of Mice And Men. In the book mostly everyone has a dream or something they hope for. Everyone’s a dreamer but only few people stay hopeful . Steinbeck uses George, Lennie, and Curley’s wife to show what their dream is, if it kept them hopeful
In the book of Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck characterizes George and Lennie through a way of describing them as having each other’s backs all the time. In the barn, Lennie is speaking with Crooks. “Ain’t nobody goin’ to talk no hurt to George” (Steinbeck 72). This is explaining that Lennie is caring for George and he doesn’t want to talk about him being hurt. The author is expressing symbolism because of the way Lennie appears defensive and how he talks to Crooks in anger. The symbol is like how Lennie
John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men takes place in California during the Great Depression. The novel is about two men, George Milton and Lennie Smalls, traveling around trying to find work while everyone is struggling to make money. George is small and clever while Lennie is muscular and has a mental disability. They find work on this farm located near the Salinas River in Soledad, filled with other men trying to make a living. George and Lennie want to start a farm filled with many animals but
Holstein and today I will be discussing the intriguing character of Lennie from John Steinbeck’s classic, Of Mice and Men. Lennie is essentially on a journey to find his sanctuary in a society that does not tolerate people who are seen to be different. Point 1 plot summary Before I delve too deeply into the journey of Lennie, I’m going to give you a quick overview of the plot of John Steinbeck’s novel. Of Mice and Men is about two migrant workers in the time of the Great depression, George the small
of us succeeding better than others, as this pent up wildness may rise up occasionally in our 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
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Print. The Grapes of Wrath is an extraordinary tale of a family’s internal and external struggles in the late 1930s during the Dust Bowl. When speaking about the novel, people often refer to it as “a classic” and “one of the greatest works to ever be published”. Upon thinking about which books to chose from, the Great Depression seemed like a great topic to learn more about. It was some of the country’s worst years and was rich