Comparison Of Power In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Power isn’t just strength. Power could be a couple other ways too. A book that is science-fiction called “of mice of men” by john Steinbeck. The book is about two men who work on a California farm. In the time they were in the great depression. It was very hard to have power during that time. The book kinds of are power that Steinbeck was trying to show in the book was mental, racism, and strengths. To start in the book “of mice of men” is mental. George is smarter than Lennie because Lennie is a little slower then George and the people around him. “I wasn’t kicked in the head was I George? ‘be a damn good thing if you was….” Since Lennie wasn’t smart it was hard to explain that to other people. It was even hard for people even in that time. That why's George lying to the boss about Lennie. It was easier to tell that Lennie got hurt then explaining that he was slow. Also Carlson was convincing candy y that he should
In the book the white women has power over the black man all because he is black. “She turned on him in scorn “listen nigger,” she said “you know what I can do to you if you open your trap?” crooks stared hopelessly at her and then he sat down on his bunk and drew into himself. She closed on him “you know what I could do?” crook seemed to grow smaller and he pressed himself against the wall “yes ma’am “ that a woman was able to make a black man feel bad about himself and make him stop talking. Also how a curley has power over his wife. H=because she is women and during that time women were just property (……) that he is able to make his wife feel like property and that she can't do anything just stay at home and clean. Then how the white men has power over black men all because the color of her skin(…) that they won't talk to him or anything else beside play horseshoes with. Plus how he's not allowed to go into the buk where they other guys are he has to stay in the barn with the