Loyalty In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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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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