Diverse Cultures; Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
The book Of Mice and Men was set in the depression of the 1930's in California in a place called Soledad. Men travelled around looking for any work they could find, they had to leave their families and homes just to make some money. Even firms and companies went bankrupt, these were depressing and desperate times, no hope and no future.Without dreams no one would have a reason to keep going. The character George is a small, quick man with well defined features. He is a migrant ranch worker, he dreams of one day saving enough money to buy his own place and being his own boss, many men in the depression dreamed of this. His only set-back is his mentally handicapped friend Lennie who he travels with and has been with since he promised Lennie's aunt Clara he would look after him after she died. Looking after Lennie stops George from working towards his dream and even prevents him from having a normal life of a rancher, because of this George and Lennie regularly fight. George yearns for companionship and he likes Lennie's company. The tension of having to look after Lennie and himself shows in George, He shows a wide variety of emotions during the novel, from anger to patience and then to sadness.
Lennie, of course, never threatened George directly but his actions had put George's life in danger. The tragedy is that George, in effect, is forced to shoot his only companion, who made him different than many other workers, as well as his own dream and admit that it has gone hopelessly wrong. Also in this chapter we find out about their dream and Lennie gets very excited at the idea that he can tend rabbits on the farm and George says In his excitement Candy lets the secret slip to both Crooks and Curley's Wife. When he is away from George for the littlest time he gets himself in the trouble as he killed the puppy and Curley's wife when George was only a short distance away from him. Lennie's child-like personality and his behaviour always gets him into trouble which he can not get out of and this causes him to kill another human being.
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Approximate Word count = 1608
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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