Journal on John Steinbeck "Of mice and men"
Journal: Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
After having read the description of the novel, my expectations were that this would have been a typical story of a good ending, no matter how thrilling the suspension dots in the end may make the plot seem to be. However, upon reading it, it was becoming clearer that Steinbeck’s use of certain details and foreshadowing in the text was already suggesting the outcome resulting otherwise. For example at the very beginning the name of the town Lennie and George were going through, Soledad, already makes the reader think that the place is connected with solitary, loneliness. These guys have a dream together, that Lennie likes to be repeated to him by George. They want to earn enough money to buy a farm, and "live off the fatta the lan ", with Lennie tending the rabbits. A common during their days, American Dream. It did seem that they could have achieved it, until the first foreshadowing came into place. When when was mentioned Lennie’s enjoyment of touching nice-looking, soft objects/material. That got him in trouble at a previous farm where George and Lennie were working on, when he just wanted to feel a girl’s dress, and he was too simple-minded to let go of it, when the girl began to protest. The novel started with George and Lennie running away from the previous farm to work in another one, in order to escape persecution and to start earning for their American dream.
New individual characters then came into play – Candy, Crooks, Curley, and Curley’s wife but it would be more appropriate to describe the main characters Lennie and George first. Lennie is a strong, tall, but a mentally handicapped man, who trusts and admires George completely. He was perhaps a rather simple character, but one that arises sympathy because of his defenselessness against Curley’s agression, and taunts from Curley’s wife. George can be described as exact opposite of Lennie, being short-tempered,
After having read the description of the novel, my expectations were that this would have been a typical story of a good ending, no matter how thrilling the suspension dots in the end may make the plot seem to be. However, upon reading it, it was becoming clearer that Steinbeck’s use of certain details and foreshadowing in the text was already suggesting the outcome resulting otherwise. For example at the very beginning the name of the town Lennie and George were going through, Soledad, already makes the reader think that the place is connected with solitary, loneliness. These guys have a dream together, that Lennie likes to be repeated to him by George. They want to earn enough money to buy a farm, and "live off the fatta the lan ", with Lennie tending the rabbits. A common during their days, American Dream. It did seem that they could have achieved it, until the first foreshadowing came into place. When when was mentioned Lennie’s enjoyment of touching nice-looking, soft objects/material. That got him in trouble at a previous farm where George and Lennie were working on, when he just wanted to feel a girl’s dress, and he was too simple-minded to let go of it, when the girl began to protest. The novel started with George and Lennie running away from the previous farm to work in another one, in order to escape persecution and to start earning for their American dream.
New individual characters then came into play – Candy, Crooks, Curley, and Curley’s wife but it would be more appropriate to describe the main characters Lennie and George first. Lennie is a strong, tall, but a mentally handicapped man, who trusts and admires George completely. He was perhaps a rather simple character, but one that arises sympathy because of his defenselessness against Curley’s agression, and taunts from Curley’s wife. George can be described as exact opposite of Lennie, being short-tempered,