Of Mice and Men
The story Of Mice and Men took place during the 1930's. That time period was very different from today. Race and gender were very important characteristics that determined whether a person had the opportunity to make money. The 1930's were also a time where people started questioning life and the American culture. Many people like John Steinbeck thought that life was very unfair and questioned whether if life was even worth living. In Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck demonstrates that mans dream is destined to be destroyed by a cruel reality. George was a very smart and able man who had taken responsibility of a mentally-challenged man named Lennie. George could have found a good steady job for which he could have stayed at and made good money, but when he went to work with Lennie, Lennie made a mistake that got both of them in trouble. George was a very good person for taking care of Lennie. Lennie was very dumb, but he always remembered the dream he and George shared. The main dream that George possessed
ing George to kill Lennie, because reality did not allow those two to fulfil their dreams. Life was unfair in the thirties, and Of Mice and Men is a great example of that. Only a certain type of person could have lived how he wanted without being bothered or persecuted. For unimportant reasons, George, Curly's Wife, and Crooks dreams were all destroyed by a cruel reality. Crooks was the only black man in the story. Everyone knows that up until the 1950's when the civil rights movements were popular, that blacks were discriminated against and had no chance of becoming successful people. Crooks had worked at the farm for a very long time and was very lonely. He also got treated worse then everyone else. Curly's wife was very mean to him. One time Crooks asked Curly's wife to leave his room and she wouldn't leave. But she responded harshly, "Listen nigga, don't you know what I could do to you if you open your trap."(80) That just shows how limited Crooks was in when speaking to other people. Of all of t
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Approximate Word count = 689
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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