1. Steinbeck describes the setting in such detail so we can picture in our mind exactly what the setting looks like. It is to give the reader a good image of the setting, and have the reader realize how the characters act. Steinbeck uses one of the five senses on page one to connect with his readers. He uses the sense of seeing. I can see in my mind what Steinbeck is talking about when he states “…but on the valley side the water is lined with the trees-willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter’s flooding…” In this quote I can picture everything Steinbeck is saying. 2. I can assume from George and Lennie’s description that they are very good friends and they care about each other. In the description that we wrote down as a class it says that Lennie depends on George and George cares and is devoted to Lennie. Both Lennie and George share the same vision about owning a farm together and that brings them closer together as friends. Their voices differ between the two friends because George is quick-witted which means he responds quickly, on the other hand Lennie doesn't talk that much because George …show more content…
Lennie’s attachment to the dead mouse is that he loves to pet soft things. He loves soft animals and his vision is that one day George and him are going to live in their own farmhouse and raising rabbits. An opinion I form about Lennie is that he is a nice person who loves animals! 4. I think that George and Lennie are forced to run away from Weed because Lennie frightened a girl, she accused him of trying to rape her. Lennie just likes to touch soft things and the girl was wearing a dress made of soft material. When he asked to touch it, the girl said "yes" but became frightened when Lennie would not let go. The more she tried to escape, the tighter Lennie held on to her dress. She assumed Lennie was trying to rape her, the men of the weed chased after Lennie and George, but they were able to
George and Lennie were lifelong friends and had varying personalities even from the start. Lennie thought about how his Aunt Clara said he should have been more like George. At the time when the story took place, the two men were travelling together, and had been for some time, working and then moving on to search for the next job they could find. They were like many other men in search for work, except it was rare for men to travel together. George felt a need to take care of Lennie because he was somewhat slow. George was an average man of the time. He was a good size, nice, but firm, and he had aspirations to be more than just a nomadic laborer. Lennie, on the other hand, had always been a little different. He was big, goofy, clumsy, but sweet. They were also both good workers. George was concerned with working and getting his money before they got into trouble and had to leave camp. Lennie was the one who normally started the trouble. He was a hard worker and lived to appease George, but he got distracted easily which angered George. George told about how they would own a house and a farm together and work for themselves. Lennie loved to hear the story and think about the possibilities, even though nobody knew if any of it was a possibility. George and Lennie's differences in part led to George's inclination to kill Lennie. Despite their dissimilarity, the two men needed each other probably more than they realized.
John Steinbeck, an American novelist, is well-known for his familiar themes of depression and loneliness. He uses these themes throughout a majority of his novels. These themes come from his childhood and growing up during the stock market crash. A reader can see his depiction of his childhood era. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows the prominent themes of loneliness, the need for relationships, and the loss of dreams in the 1930s through the novels’ character.
After Lennie held on the dress George continues with the rest of the story and he states “we were hiding in a drainage ditch” (Steinbeck 42). then the author concludes by tone that George was tired of running and had to start thinking about how he wanted his life to be or keep running. My claim is the best because George could do so many more things with his life if he wasn't always with Lennie or if he could have just let him go but since Lennie was a friend it was harder because he had spent so much time with helping him and traveling with
John Steinbeck explores human experience in the novella ‘Of Mice and Men’ in friendship, loneliness and marginalisation. He does this through the characters as explained thought the paragraphs below.
Following the beginning, Lennie is seen as a bit on the softer side contrary to George who was a heavy-tempered individual. We later find out that Lennie has a mental illness implied by language, communication and actions towards George and others. Demonstration of his illness was implied by: "I’d pet ‘em, and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead—because they was so little. I wish’t we’d get the rabbits pretty soon, George. They ain’t so little." (Steinbeck 4). Lennie’s childish personality and mistakes in the novel somewhat foreshadowed future events. George told Slim about the incident in Weed: “Well he seen this girl in a red dress...he just wants to touch everything he likes” (Steinbeck 41). George harshly remarked that his mistakes could get him in serious trouble, which was a vital, empowering statement within the novel that hinted at a dark
George and Lennie need each other to achieve their dream of their own farm with rabbits to tend. Lennie could not take care of his rabbits or even survive without George.
It is about mountains, river, trees, sun and animals and it is a nice place. In chapter two opening paragraph is about bunkhouse. It is about where the all workers slept on the ranch, where they kept their belongings and it is a dark, cold and horrible place. Steinbeck uses different colours to describe different places. In chapter one starting paragraph he uses nice colours to describe warm setting.
Tough Questions are the parts of the novel that create a question in your mind. Create at least FIVE questions from the text drawing from specific things that happen in the chapters. Provide your question and the page number it refers to. The questions should not be simple plot questions but should
Steinbeck begins the story by creating a serene mood when describing the setting. He illustrates how the Salinas River looks, and stating that “the water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees—willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter’s flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool” (1). Steinbeck’s word choice alone (“twinkling,” “golden,” and “fresh and green”) makes the setting appealing to the reader. The peaceful mood is created through the way he closely describes every detail; the images that the reader follows are animated and picturesque. He uses such a long sentence with semi-colons, commas, and dashes to make the passage flow smoothly, as opposed to choppy. The run-on like syntax he uses creates a comfortable feeling, showing that the Salinas River and everything surrounding it is an undisturbed area; the...
Lennie accidentally killing all of his pets establishes that the theme of this novel is death and loss. These pets consist of mice, dogs, kittens, etc. Lennie loves to feel and pet animals, but he does not know his own strength. He kills them without really noticing what he has done, until George tells him that he did something wrong. After being scolded, Lennie is very remorseful about what he did. Once, after being yelled at Lennie says, “I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead- because they were so little (13).” Lennie’s remorse is probably more for upsetting George than it is for actually killing the animal.
Conflict, by definition, is a back and forth struggle between two opposing forces. In the literary work, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, it is clear, the protagonist, George Milton, undergoes many conflicts that lead to the novel’s overall purpose. Steinbeck weaves together George’s conflicts with others, himself, and with society to illustrate what the true meaning of friendship is.
The author conveys information about their relationship by presenting us with information about their past, present, and any conflicts that they have.The author gives us little pieces of information of their past in almost every turn of a page. “You can’t keep a job and you lose me ever’ job I get. Jus’ keep me shovin’ all over the country all the time. An’ that ain’t the worst. You get in trouble. You do bad things and I get you out.” From this portion of page twelve in which George is talking with Lennie, we learn that Lennie can be irresponsible and troublesome. “Lady, huh?
With his disability, he needs something to feel connected to. He loves to pet furry and soft things. In chapter one in “Of Mice and Men”, Lennie and George are walking along a dirt road, on there way to a ranch. George discovers Lennie playing with something in his pocket. Lennie states to George before the dead mouse was taken away. ““ I could pet it with my thumb while we walked along”” (Steinbeck 6) . In order to prove that Lennie is not smart enough to fulfill the American Dream, Steinbeck creates Lennie to seem as not normal as possible. Steinbeck places Lennie in a state, where he does not understand right from wrong. He does not know nor understand, that playing with a deceased critter is not only gross but unacceptable as a
Curley's wife, an accident that seals his own fate and destroys not only his dreams but George's and Candy's as well. In the beginning Lennie used to pet mice that his Aunt Clara used to give him, he would always end up killing them because he didn't know his own strength. Lennie never killed any pet or person purposely; he pets too roughly and kills them accidentally. An example of his rough tendencies is in the first chapter (page7) when Lennie wants to keep a dead mouse and George wouldn't let him Lennie says" Uh-uh. Jus' a dead mouse, George.
George is who trying to do the right thing. He is really impatient with lennie he’s trapped with a guy who always in trouble. Another reason the reader feels sympathy for george lennie has a mind of a six year old which makes george frequently frustrates about how easy his life could be without having to take care of lennie. ”If i was alone i could live so easy.(11) I could work go get a job an’ work, an’ no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come i could take my fifty buck and go into town and get whatever i want….’’(12) ”You keep me in hot water all the time.’’(11) “We travel together,’’ said george.(40) Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They ain’t got no family. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. ”(13) George had to kill his best friend -- wants him to die happy “I never been mad, an’ i ain’t now”.