RST “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. (Source C) As shocking as this dream is, here’s another: “I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers”. (Source C) All these dreams. All of these powerful and hopeful dreams being dreamt. But for what cause. The Outcasts and blacks both have to survive every day against the odds. With racial tolerance …show more content…
not even a thought or with outcasts struggling everyday. Their Dreams diapering. Their Hope dying. Racial Gestures, hatred, murder all pointed towards them.
This was the crucial torture endured to them only 50 years ago. With all of the differences the world’s faith and dreams have to try and survive crucial encounters and constant let downs. Therefore individuals will have limited aspiration in continuing on even with such powerful dreams. Most Dreams are impossible to reach for all the outcasts and blacks around the world especially the American Dream. Even though George and Lennie are tough they still find it hard to complete the quest for the American dream with all the significant obstacles in the way. The novella “Of Mice and Men” gave a perfect example of big dreams with significant obstacles. Source A clearly demonstrates how big their American dream is. They hope for the best but truthfully they can’t make this dream a reality. The quote “An’ we could have a few pigs. I could build a smoke house like the one gran’pa had an’ when we kill a pig we can smoke the bacon an’ the hams and make sausage an all like that. An’ when the salmon run up the river we catch a hundred”! Ties together a picture of happiness and peace and everything that they looked forward to in the future. By the same token, …show more content…
the Speech found in Source C reveals both a major dream that was very over the top and a major hope that was way over the top. The man who made that speech was Martin Luther King Jr. One of his famous quote’s that recognize that everyone still had little bits of hope and faith was “This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day”. (Source C) Although over the top it was still a possible dream! The happiness and peacefulness before the outcasts and blacks were truly tortured and their dreams started getting hard to reach was tied together in source A (info graphic) and source C (Speech). Both illustrating that their dreams started disappearing like George, Candies, and Lennie’s dream. The farther that George, Candy, and Lennie got to the house the farther back they actually went. Source C was raising that hope that they still can continue. But both sources were representing that someday everyone’s dreams may come true if you truly have faith and hope. The American dream is almost impossible to reach.
Nearly every outcast and every black in America making the American dream near impossible encounters despair and torture and failure. George and Lennie were the type of people who had to endure such punishment, but Lennie was still dreaming big. “An' live off the fatta the lan'," Lennie shouted. "An' have rabbits. Go on, George! Tell about what we're gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it. Tell about that George." Lennie’s dream was slowly disappearing though. That dream was “Drying up like a raisin in the sun” (Source B). George and Lennie still push through their pain like it’s a normal morning wind. Even though George and Lennie dream as if they were rich and had nothing left to do in life but sit down on a sofa and drink, they still have hope and faith unlike in Source B. They both relate to each other in multiple ways. George and Lennie are dreaming big just like how the Author for Source B probably was, and both similar to each other. They both slowly died. Source B puts a picture in reader’s minds of failure and death, that there is no hope in the future. Source A is Imaginary land and source B is Failure. They both can relate though because they both are dreams. But one dream is dead and one dream is dying. These dreams were there hopes and faith but they cannot complete their
American dream and have limited aspiration to continue. Therefore, without hopes and dreams individuals will have limited aspiration in continuing on even with such powerful dreams. The outcasts and blacks will have their dreams shot down and crushed before any form or piece of peace and future happiness can resume and take its take on the world. But until then, they will have to try and continue with limited aspiration.
Would you be able to kill your lifelong companion? George Milton had to make that choice in John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men. After a whole bunch of misadventures with his mentally handicapped giant, Lennie Small. Lennie accidently murdered a woman out of innocence. While the ranch men search for Lennie, George made the decision to give Lennie a merciful death. I believe that George should have killed Lennie because he would have been put in an institution, Curley would have been cruel to him, and George had to give him a merciful death.
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.
This passage comes from the fourth chapter in Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. George and the other workers are “gone into town” (69). Lennie, Crooks and Candy are the only men remaining on the ranch. This excerpt characterizes Crooks and promotes the themes of loneliness and dreams. In addition, this passage characterizes Lennie and reinforces the theme of companionship.
As Slim and George arrived at the bar, neither of them said a word. Slim looked at George but George avoided his attempt at making eye contact. They walked in and sat at a round wooden table that looked to be a decade old. George sat down at one end and Slim sat down on the other directly across.
Through characterization, both authors illustrate their view on the American Dream. Using George as a catalyst in Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows how the working class of the United States strives for something better and works hard to attain their dream. “O.K. Someday – we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and-…” (14) George’s conversations with Lennie involving the farm that they are trying to buy show that George will not give up his pursuit of a better life, no matter what obstacles slow him down. Steinbeck also shows how friendship is part of the American Dream through George always sticking by Lennie, despite...
When Richard was young he would always be the person to help out. But as he became older and more feeble, his capabilities were not as they were before. This was difficult for Richard to cope with because other people would reject his help, but this did not stop him from accomplishing his dreams. The novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck contains the character Candy, an old ranch worker who lost one of his hands in a farm accident. Like Richard, Candy is old and disabled and faces problems with people discriminating against him. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses dialogue to characterize Candy as a neglected, misunderstood idealist.
According to the American Association John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, is one of the top 10 most challenged books in school during the 1990's. The novel focuses on two migrant workers, George and Lennie, who work, dream, and endure the difficulties of being human. As the novel ends the hopes, dreams, and happiness of George and Lennie are crushed beyond the condition in defeat. This novel paints a horrific portrait of the human experience through profanity, inappropriate language, racism, sexism, adult content and murder. John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, should be a banned book.
In the story, there are two oddly paired men, who travel side by side and support each other with the goal of living the ideal life. In a world of loneliness and trouble, these characters, George and Lennie, find comfort within the presence of each other. Another friendship within the story is between Candy and his dog. In John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men, the author suggests that the friendships between the two sets of individuals have parallel connections. By observing the characters’ position in society, the meaning of their relationship with one another, and the killing of their companion, we can conclude that there are similarities between the two partnerships.
Write a summary of the novella, ‘Of Mice and Men’. The novella “Of mice and men “is about two migrant ranch worker, Lennie and George, who are best friends are walking on their way to searching for a new jobs at the ranch. They have recently escaped from the farm in Weed because of Lennie, a developmentally issue men, was wrongly accused of rape when he touched a girl's dress. Before they leave Salina River, George had told Lennie remember and return to this place whenever he get into trouble.
When my mom and dad got married their first housewarming gift was a tiny puppy. Through the first months of their marriage, this dog was essentially their first child. Sitting on the couch, Spike the dog, as large as he became, insisted on sitting on top of them. On Spike’s birthday, he would have his very own hat and balloons which he would flaunt in around the yard. Later my parents had my oldest brother and Spike was not getting the attention he needed. Sadly, my parents gave away a piece of their hearts to family friends who lived far away. To them, it was like experiencing the death of memories and a family pet even though they knew it would be the best choice. In Of Mice and Men a novel by John Steinbeck, the writer displays how taking the life of someone suffering may sometimes be a respectable
“I dream” (Martin Luther King Jr.). Most humans are familiar with the term “American Dream”. The “dream” is based on different categories for everyone, but certain aspects are apart of the “American Dream”. Achieving the ‘‘American Dream’’, takes a part on the color of skin and society placement. Therefore, the American dream is not obtainable due to social inequality and racial discrimination.
One of the greatest aspects of literature is its ability to represent the world. Dates, events, people, and objects can all be described and related through the use of written word. Authors use the tools of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics to convey information and meaning throughout their works. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is an excellent example of how the use of these elements can provide the reader with deeper backgrounds for the characters. Steinbeck artfully employs the absence of standard American English to aid readers in understanding the characters on a more significant level. With unique dialect among characters such as George and Crooks, he makes an important commentary about education in the period and the
How does power change the way that people think about you? In the book Of Mice and Men it shows how power changes the way people treat you.The more power you have the higher in authority you are. Having less or no power will entitle you to less respect.Or maybe that’s not always the case. Curley had power and respect because of his money what if one day lost all of his money would other people still respect him? Do people actually respect Curley, for who he is? Why can you have power over some people but not others? The more power you have does not entitle you to respect.
In the book, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, a mentally unstable character, named Lennie, commits a crime out of fear. This situation presents his closest friend, George, with a moral dilemma as to whether or not he should put his mentally disturbed friend out of his misery while making us think what we would do in a similar situation. Steinbeck presents the moral dilemma and its resolution mainly through characterization, conflict, and foreshadowing. This text deals with the value of life and the moral issue of whether or not a human should be able to take life away from another human due to their suffering.
Sometimes people can be unfair and treat people unequally. Whether you are a boy or a girl