Of Mice and Men

“Of Mice and Men” is a novel by John Steinbeck. Steinbeck uses languages to create images in the responder’s mind. The composer uses languages to create images that communicate main ideas and add richness and depth to their texts. The novel relates mainly to friendship and loneliness portrayed through the relationship between George and Lennie. The composer’s language technique that he uses is American southern vernacular slang that invokes to the 1930’s. Responders can relate to the book which makes it such a great novel to read. Steinbeck uses great detail to describe all the characters that come up in the novel. The related text is an image of a homeless person lying on the street. The composer of this text uses black and white imagery to convey loneliness.
His poetic style uses a detailed description, effective metaphors, similes and imagery. For example, Steinbeck uses the metaphor “the heron jacked itself clear of the water”. (Page 98) The simile he uses “in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars” (Page 9) and “as silently as a creeping bear” (Page 98) creates an extended metaphor. The imagery on “the tops of the mountains seemed to blaze with increasing brightness” (pg105) when Steinbeck describes the sun setting, representing the end for Lennie and a new start for George. This helps explain why Steinbeck used very detailed description with the metaphors, similes to create a rich imagery. Steinbeck uses these particular techniques in order to keep the responder drawn to the story and want to keep on reading till the very end.
He creates the setting for each scene with a clear description, and uses languages to invoke imagery to describe the atmosphere. For example “The silence came in to the room and the silence lasted” (Page 94) this was quoted when describing the shooting of Candy’s dog. Another example was after the death of Curley’s wife which Steinbeck quoted “a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. Sound