Through the ages of time the alpha homo sapiens have dominated the lands with their deep knowledge of the human brain. This knowledge of psychology has shown in history as fellow humans bestow sturdy and indestructible everlasting friendship with one another. “A friend is a mirror of your own self, someone with whom you realise that, though autonomous, you are not alone” (Collingwwod). In the great novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the pair of friends George and Lennie work on a farm in Salinas, California during the mid 1930´ś at the peak Great Depression. Through George's leadership, as a smart and straight headed man, he is able to lead Lennie, a slow and faithful friend, around the country working from farm to farm doing hard …show more content…
Loyalty is when you can put your faith in another person knowing that he or she will also be there. In AOHF and OMAM loyalty plays a major role in the friendship between Huck and Jim and Lennie and George. Especially when Huck rescues Jm for the Phelps’ farm to save him from being sent back to Miss Watson causing him to become a slave again, “(Twain 180)”. Huck being uneducated, uncivilized, and dirty boy shows unbreakable loyalty to Jim. In the book when they are going down the mississippi river and these white men want to search their raft for runaway niggers. Huck makes up a lie for the greater good of the pare. The friends George and Lennie also show huge amounts of loyalty when George backs up lennie in a fight against Curly. George is grateful because he says, “I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail” (Steinbeck 7). The fact that George puts his career on the line just to help lennie lives shows that he is very lovely to …show more content…
Companionship is when fiends have the same interest and and get along like family. Although George and Lennie may not show it, deep down you can tell they're like brothers. George is a role model and leader for Lennie. Plus Lennie looks up to George and always seeks his companionship and whenever they are separate lennie is lost."Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to" (Steinbeck 113) Steinbeck is saying if Lennie and George stick together they can bear a lot more if you have a friend. Huck and Jim developable a very deep companionship. They spend quality time together on their adventures down the Mississippi river in their raft developing their friendship even further.” I was sorry to hear Jim say that, it was such a lowering of him. My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, "Let up on me—it ain't too late yet—I'll paddle ashore at the first light and tell." I felt easy and happy and light as a feather right off. All my troubles was gone” (Twain 9). A true fiend like Jim sacrifices his chance of freedom to help Huck becoming free from society this show his
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Steinbeck believed that friendship was important. Lennie knows that George will always have his back, although Lennie cannot really protect George he feels like he can (Steinbeck 14). Even though George says, he does not want Lennie with him, he does not want to leave him by himself (Steinbeck 13). When Lennie and George first get to the ranch, the boss starts to ask them questions. George answers all of them even if they were asking Lennie. He knows that if Lennie talks, he might say what happened in Weed (Steinbeck 22). The boss, at the new farm, thinks that George only wants to take Lennie money. But George tells him that he only wants to take care of Lennie. The boss tells George that he had never seen two men traveling together like him and Lennie (22).
John Steinbeck was born in 1902, in California's Salinas Valley, a region that would eventually serve as the setting for Of Mice and Men, as well as many of his other works. He studied literature and writing at Stanford University. He then moved to New York City and worked as a laborer and journalist for five years, until he completed his first novel in 1929, Cup of Gold. With the publication of Tortilla Flat in 1935, Steinbeck achieved fame and became a popular author. He wrote many novels about the California laboring class. Two of his more famous novels included Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck got the title for Of Mice and Men from a line of Robert Burns, a Scottish poet, “The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry." In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck includes the theme of loyalty and sacrifice between friends. Steinbeck illustrates the loyalty and sacrifice between friends through the friendship of Lennie and George.
...ing out for Huck like a father would. "I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come" (Twain ). In this line Huck states that though he does not have a plan just yet, the first thing that he will do once he has one, is to carry it out and free Jim. This shows his loyalty to Jim as he will always come back to him which demonstrates how much he cares for him and their strong bond.
In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the need for companionship is shown throughout the book. Crooks, Curley's wife, and George and Lennie all illustrate that you need trustworthy friendships to live your life to its full potential and pursue your dreams.. That is why I believe that, had Lennie lived, he and George could have taken their companionship further and gotten the little cottage they wanted, enabling them to achieve their dream of “'[living] off the fatta the lan''” (14).
Consistently throughout the story George and Lennie were there for each other; in fact towards the very beginning Lennie and George discussed how they were better off than most guys because they had each other (14). When George killed Lennie a part of him died too, George knew murdering Lennie would hurt him mentally and emotionally. However he did it because he wanted what was best for his friend no matter the cost. His actions were altruistic and that made his decision the more favorable one. Another instance when George was selfless was when he gave up his dream. Throughout the story George and Lennie dreamed of and worked towards owning their own piece of land together. However, after discovering Curley’s wife dead, George returned to reality and informed Candy that they would, “never do her” (94). After losing his friend George understood the impossibility of achieving the American Dream. Beforehand George knew he would not want to live out his dream without Lennie, so by protecting Lennie and giving up on his own dream he put Lennie above himself. Conversely, someone may believe that George's actions were selfish and that he benefits himself by killing Lennie. After George comes after Lennie, the dim-witted man asks if George was going to yell at him. Reluctantly George told him “If I was alone, I could live so easy,” (103). Although George said
With prior friendships being mainly those of Tom Sawyer and misguided children of a “gang”, the concept of the nature of a friendship was misconstrued. Jim’s friendship taught him the importance of unconditional love, and having a friends back no matter what. Jim refers to Huck as the “best friend that old Jim ever had in the world” (214). This resonates with Huck and when tempted to write a letter to Miss Watson to expose Jim’s whereabouts, he recalls his relationship with Jim. He remembers the level of trust that has been created between the two of them, and how close their journey to freedom has brought them. Having come to this new realization of a moral compass, he is unable to do this to his new friend and states, “‘All right then, I’ll go to hell’ and tore it up” (214). He is suddenly able to better separate differences between what is truly right, and what is societally
In lieu of his escape, Jim emphasized his feelings of becoming a free man. Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom (p. 238). Huck came to the realization that Jim was escaping for a far different reason than he, and began to see this “nigger’s” freedom as his own fault; he was an accomplice. Huck’s conscience became plagued by the fact that Jim was escaping the custody of his rightful owner, and he was doing nothing to stop this. In Huck’s eyes, Jim was essentially the property of poor old Ms. Watson, who didn’t do anything less than teach Jim his manners and his books. Altogether, Huck felt that he was doing wrong by concealing this, and felt miserable to say the least.
During his moment of contemplation, Huck exclaims, “Alright then, I’ll go to hell” (242). Despite the fact that we, the audience, and Twain understand how Huck feels about Jim is, in actuality, quite normal and morally righteous, Huck’s mentality still evokes the sentiments of the slave-holding society that Huck had resided in during the entirety of his adolescence. Another aspect of his maturation that Huck needs to reflect upon is his views on the concept of slavery. When declaring his willingness to help Jim escape, Huck states, “...I would go to steal him out of slavery again…” (242). Through this line, Huck apparently expresses the fact that he is willing to “steal” Jim, implying that Jim is property, which ultimately hints at Huck’s failure to make the connection that slavery is unjust. In spite of the fact that Huck has consistently proven to us, the audience, that he is fully capable of positively expanding his knowledge of the world around him, he still has certain notions of his that need to be pondered upon before we can entirely conclude that Huck has separated his personal ideals from the ideals of his slave-holding
George’s struggles with himself become apparent at the beginning of the novel. Steinbeck clearly lets the reader know that George has conflicting feelings about Lennie. He believed, “ ...if he was alone he could live so easy. He could go get a job an ' work, an ' no trouble” (11). George is basically telling Lennie that sometimes, he wishes he could live
The way Huck and Jim encounter each other on the island, draws parallels in their similar backgrounds. Huck is torn between a life of manners and etiquette and a dangerous life a freedom, and while Jim at an impasse because he is being sold into slavery farther away from his home and away from his family. Each choice, for both characters comes with a cost so they both decide to runaway, in an attempt to assert some control over their lives. After spending much time together, the pair establish a connection which at times Huck feels guilty about since it violates everything he was raised to believe. At a certain point, Huck considers turning Jim in by, writing a letter, but after recalling the goods times they shared, Huck exclaims, "All right, then, I 'll go to hell!” (Twain) and quickly tears up the letter. Twain depicts Huck and Jim 's eventually friendship as a source of emotional strife for Huck and Huck constantly has to decide whether to abandon Jim and turn him in or abandon his religious beliefs and stay with Jim. The ripping up of the letter that would have turned Jim in symbolizes the choice Huck 's has selected. For this moment onward, Huck is dedicated to keeping Jim from being sold back into slavery and has no intent on going back on his choice. While there are times, Huck pays attention to the color of Jim 's skin he believes that
Huck and Jim had many adventures while aboard the raft together. Although Jim was black, and supposed to be looked down upon by Huck, he saw Jim as the fatherly figure he never received from his abusive biological father. He looked up to Jim and Jim protected Huck as if he were his son. Jim missed his own family, telling Huck "how the first thing he would do when he got to a free State he would go to saving money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough he would ...
Huck’s developes to feel sympathy for others while also, recognizing Jim as father figure and close friend. Jim achieving his freedom relieves Huck knowing that he did the right thing all
Twain takes great pains in creating a shallow and a superstitious character who, while scared of what he doesn’t understand but willing to profit from it. Jim, growing up in a broken time period didn’t have it easy. Education for slaves was denied; masters would be enraged if their slaves outsmarted them. Not having an education hurt Jim in a way, Huck and Tom both played cruel jokes on him because they knew he wouldn’t fully understand what they were doing. However, as time passed, Huck had a change of heart and felt empathy toward Jim after hearing the lesson Jim taught him about trash, and soon started to befriend him.
One of the ways John Steinbeck delineate the value of friendship is through the bonding and relationships made by the characters. For instance, when two migrant farmers, George and Lennie stayed near the Salinas river on a Thursday evening to rest before they start working the next day, George states that, ¨Guys like us, that work on ranches are the loneliest guys…” and “got nothing to look ahead to¨ (13-14). By including this detail, Steinbeck helps the reader understand that it is hard out there as a migrant farmer, but a person carries a special relationship with someone can bear a lot more and do things better when you have a friend. In addition, during leisure of George and Lennie’s at the Salinas river, George struggles preparing beans for the two of them due to the disagreement of putting ketchup on the beans. George got tired of Lennie wanting something that they don’t have, therefore George went on about how he could be more successful and live simple